• To develop and promote entrepreneurial knowledge and skills, among the NVIWODA membership.
• To promote the acquisition of technical skills and technology among women members of NVIWODA.
• To provide credit facilities to the members of NVIWODA.
• To improve the access, and utilization of information to women members of NVIWODA.
• To develop and improve the management capability of the Association Secretariat.

• Equipping women with skills and knowledge in entrepreneurship.
• Equipping members with technical skills.
• Provide women members with credit facilities.
• Providing women with improved information
• To improve the management capacity of the Secretariat.
• Build the capacity of Community Based 0rganisations and Grant making support, as and to when available.
• NVIWODA Development Fund Partnership

• To build the capacity, support and encourage indigenous women groups working in communities to grow.
• To share, empower and pass on our beliefs, in the strengthening of women in Uganda to set their own agendas and develop their own solutions.
• To share roles and become partners in a joint effort, towards a better world, for the grassroots women.
• Reach out to and provide resources to smaller groups, who have limited knowledge and access to grant support opportunities.
• As the Global Fund for Women celebrated its 15th Anniversary, NVIWODA was one of the 15 Global group that received a Partnership Grant Award to specifically support indigenous Cobs in Uganda that have limited opportunities to reach fenders due to their size and remoteness, limited infrastructure, disparities in languages and lack of technical resource mobilization.

• Women's Human Rights
• Economic empowerment
• Technological empowerment
• Modern agriculture and farming activities.

Forty (40) participants were leaders drawn from CBO's, from the following districts: Kabarole, Mpigi, Mukono, Luweero, Mbarara, Jinja, Paliisa, Kanungu, Ibanda and Kampala.

It was a one week Non-residential training which started from 8.00am to 5.00pm daily. The participatory methods used motivated the participants to be actively engaged in fruitful discussions during the period of training.

NVIWODA widely shared its experiences of development with women. This further strengthened the leaders of CBOs to focus on their roles.

Love, Faith, Hope, and Unity was encouraged as a tool of spiritual formation of leaders and their communities, as they continued to carry on with their development work.

Networking among the CBOs was highly emphasized as a strengthening tool for development and growth of CBOs.

At the end of the Workshop, NVIWODA members exhibited their work to the participants to enable them learn of their Best Practices.

NVIWODA fully appreciates the Global Fund for Women partnership initiative and its continued support to strengthening our efforts towards development of human rights of especially the grassroots woman.

NVIWODA appeals to other actors to come in, support and strengthen NVIWODA Grant Development Fund, to benefit other grassroots women to accelerate social and economic development of women to enable them attain equal human rights for all women.

We strongly believe that when women at the grassroot are supported in their local initiatives development will gradually be realized, with healthier, and better increased awareness, self confidence, increased incomes and hence accelerated social revolution and transformation national development.



Seminar on women and health: Access to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral
NVIWODA in partnership with Development of Antiretroviral Therapy (DART) in Africa Project of Joint Clinical Research Centre, on 26th August 2004 conducted a half-day seminar on women and health, in regard to availing information and access to HIV/AIDS antiretroviral.
Thirty (30) members of NVIWODA, drawn from the project area of Kampala District, participated in the seminar. English and Luganda languages were used as a mode of communication.
Participants actively participated in the seminar due to a friendly environment. The frequently asked question,”Is there hope to eliminate HIV/AIDS in Africa and who, would remain uninfected?” was asked by the women.
Participants indicated the desire to voluntarily test.

At the end of the seminar, the women were introduced to use of IT focusing on HIV/AIDS.
With the support from Serviette Sisters’ Charitable Trust Fund, NVIWODA in November 2003, commenced on training the members on use of ICT through simplified information and hands on, in order to empower them with skills and to eliminate the mystery, that they are not technical.

Though the members contribute minimal amount of money towards the training and acquisition of materials, there still remains a great need for both financial and material resource support that will strengthen and maintain the link to the Web services, including telephone bills. This would enhance effective, accelerated access and utilization of the services by the members.

It is planned to mobilize and train leaders of Eighteen Community Based organizations in Ten Districts of Uganda, who have had the support of WOUGNET, through documentation of their organizational profiles, a link, which has exposed and brought grassroots women forward to ICT development, more especially NVIWODA member CBO’s Grantees.

We have also posted a Luganda Version to NVIWODA Website, working with our online volunteer, Andrew Bolton.



NVIWODA Annual General Meeting, December 2004
On December 11, 2004, NVIWODA held its Annual General Meeting (AGM) in which member entrepreneurs had a review of what had transpired in the organization throughout the year. In her brief welcome message the Chairperson, Ms. Margaret Tinka, explained the purpose of the meeting. She also noted that the AGM had coincided with the Re-Union Day since NVIWODA entrepreneurs and members from the various parts of the country had assembled to share experiences and to learn more from NVIWODA.
The AGM meeting was different from the traditional ones, as this time round it focused more on creation of awareness on use of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) among the women and to promote and facilitate the advancement of their human rights. Facilitators of the day came from different organizations namely, Kompyuta Africa, Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) and Ntulume Village Women Development Association (NVIWODA).
Click here for a copy of the AGM report including photos taken during the AGM events as well as brief profiles of some of the NVIWODA members (WORD format, 1.5MB in size).



Ms. Cissy Nyarwa honored with "The Women Achiever Award" 2006
As part of the celebrations to mark the 2006 International Women's Day, Stanbic Bank and The New Vision daily newspaper, honored women in what they called “The Woman Achiever Award”. Ms. Cissy Edith Nyarwa, coordinator of NVIWODA emerged the runner-up and received a cash prize. NVIWODA envisions a knowledgeable community of women, trained, equipped with entrepreneurial skills and capable of influencing and making decisions.
Ms. Nyarwa was recognized for her efforts to train other women in entrepreneurship skills, her readiness to share knowledge with the disadvantaged women and her willingness to counsel other women on issues that touch their lives. WOUGNET would like to congratulate Cissy Nyarwa on her achievement!



Equipping members with ICT and Entrepreneurial Skills, 25-30 September 2006
Ntulume Village Women's Development Association (NVIWODA) envisions a knowledgeable community of women, trained and equipped with entrepreneurial skills and capable of influencing and making decisions. This is done through provision of entrepreneurship and technological skills training and development. To this end NVIWODA recently held its first ICT/Entrepreneurship outreach training Programme for twenty-one of its members. The training was conducted at the NVIWODA Centre for Entrepreneurship and Career Development from 25th to 30th September 2006. Participants, both women and men, were drawn from Kasese, Apac, Kampala, Mpigi, Wakiso, Kabarole, Luweero, and Ibanda districts of Uganda. The WOUGNET ICT Manager Gorreti Amuriat handed over certificates of achievement to the participants at the end of the training.

However, NVIWODA does face some challenges in achieving its goals. Since 1987, NVIWODA’s has had quite a number of successful stories and activities, but unfortunately some of the best practice experiences have not been documented. Though, since 1999, some of activities have been Video documented, the organization desires to document and develop Audio CD / DVD ROMs in order to electronically exhibit and promote its work. The Audio CDs will contribute to raising more funds to run the Centre that will expand more of its programmes to many other areas and at the same time they would be used as training materials.

Another challenge NVIWODA faces is that after successfully working with the Community Based organizations (CBOs) through a grant making project, many more CBOs identified themselves with NVIWODA, and are desirous of support in form of grants. The organization is incapacitated in fundraising for this activity and hence looks for partners to support the organization as fundraisers. It is highly hoped that once the organization acquires a vehicle it can be able to effectively reach out to many women who are less advantaged, and lack self confidence, creativity, and empowerment skills in order to enjoy their equal human rights.