WOUGNET is located at Plot 55 Kenneth Dale, Off Kira Road, Kamwokya. Directions: After the Kamwokya market as you travel along Kira road, turn off to your left onto Kenneth Dale, (just before the football field and Kira Road Police Station). Once on Kenneth Dale, look out for the WOUGNET sign post on your left towards the end of the road. Click here for a map.
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Women of Uganda Network is a NGO initiated by women`s organisations in Uganda to develop the use of ICTs among women as tools to share information and address issues collectively. Read More...
WOUGNET is looking to fill the position of Fundraising Manager. (Extended application deadline: 25 February 2010)
The WOUGNET Fundraising Manager is a dynamic, self-motivated, innovative, organised and outgoing person to match a demanding and challenging role that requires excellent relationship management and communication skills, strong planning and organisational skills, the ability to self start as well as a tenacious attitude. The Fundraising Manager is passionate about improving the lives of women in Uganda.
Early this year, about six writers
from Uganda Women Writers’ Association (FEMRITE) armed themselves with
notebooks, tape recorders and cameras to record women’s voices in Kapchorwa
where female genital mutilation (FGM) is practiced. Two Ethiopian women stories
were also recorded in the collection. The product of women experiences is a
book; Beyond the Dance, which
captures the details and engages readers in the personal stories, personalizes FGM
and imparts that this practice must end now.
TVs are a very useful tech tool in contributing to a GBV free Uganda. In the past decade alone, quite a number of interesting TV stations have emerged like NTV, NBS and Bukedde TV. These portray actual thoughts and social structures of the majority of Ugandans. Some of the talk shows are an avenue for women and men in despondent situations most due to domestic violence to share and heal. This is definitely an up towards using tech to promote GB violence freedom.
On the other hand however, there are other infiltrations that promote the opposite and the younger generation feeds their minds with distorted information that is hard to erase. I think that TV broadcasters should be an integral part of the campaign along with household heads, the majority of who are women, to use TV to their advantage to communicate with wisdom.
Beverley Nambozo Nsengiyunva Founder of Beverley Nambozo Poetry Award
The "Women in Business" Challenge aims to support women entrepreneurs providing them with the assistance, templates, contacts and financiers to get their business started. Creating a level playing field for men and women entrepreneurs. Currently 23% of BiD Network's business proposals come from women entrepreneurs. The aim is to increase this.
Women in Business Challenge is a new sector competition developed by BiD Network and powered by ING and ICCO, this challenge focuses on women entrepreneurs in Africa, Asia and Latin America.
As we participate in the 16 Days of activism against Gender based violence which run from 25th November to 10th December every yearas well as celebrate the recent passing of the Domestic Violence billin the Parliament of Uganda, we need to reflect on a number of issues that have rocked our country in regard to gender based violence. The global theme for this year is "Commit ▪ Act ▪ Demand: We CAN End Violence Against Women!" whereas the regional theme for Horn, East ans Southern Africa is “Happy and healthy relationships are violence free”.
