Uganda Private Midwives Association (UPMA) is organizing the fourth International Confederation of Midwives (ICM) Africa meeting in Kampala, Uganda.

In 2008 during the third ICM African Midwives Conference held in Ghana, Uganda was selected to host the fourth conference which will be held at Speke Resort Munyonyo, Kampala, Uganda from Monday, 4th to Thursday, 7th May, 2010. The conference theme is "African Midwives United Towards Contribution to the achievement of Millennium Development Goals". The four day meeting will offer participants an opportunity to share knowledge and experience to strengthen the midwifery practice, education and research in relation to the contribution towards achievement of Millennium Development Goals.

In celebration of International Women's Day, 8 March 2010, the Feminist Tech Exchange (FTX) is launching its new website - http://ftx.apcwomen.org/. The FTX is both a training initiative for women's rights advocates and a community of feminist and technology activists. The FTX was developed by the Association for Progressive Communications Women's Networking Support Programme (APC WNSP) in response to calls from feminist and women's rights movements for greater understanding of emerging technologies, their potential and impact on the rights and lives of women.

Women's Week Exhibition is being held at Uganda Museum on Kitante Road from 1^st March to 7^th March 2010.  The event is hosted by the National Association of Women Organisations in Uganda (NAWOU). 

Are you an exhibitor with something to sell? You are welcome at a small fee. The Exhibition will be opened by the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development on Tuesday 2^nd March at 2:00pm.

Do not miss the occasion to be seen and heard. There is an opportunity for you to put your views down on what you think the level of empowerment for women is in Uganda.

 National Women's Day Celebrations on 8^th March will be held in Kizinda, Ishaka, Bushenyi District.

Women & Mobile: A Global Opportunity is a study on the mobile phone gender gap in low and middle-income countries. The study report was launched at the Mobile World Congress by Rob Conway, CEO of the GSM Association (GSMA), Cherie Blair, Founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women and Brooke Partridge, CEO of Vital Wave Consulting. The Mobile World Congress was held in Barcelona, Spain, from 15 - 18 February 2010.

Mobile phone ownership in low and middle-income countries has skyrocketed in the past several years. But a woman is still 21% less likely to own a mobile phone than a man. Closing this gender gap would bring the benefits of mobile phones to an additional 300 million women. By extending the benefits of mobile phone ownership to more women, a host of social and economic goals can be advanced.

WOUGNET's work with rural women farmers in Apac District, Northern Uganda, is among the cases highlighted in the report. With support from the Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation ACP EU (CTA) and Hivos, WOUGNET has used mobile phones as one of the ICT tools to enhance access to agricultural information by rural women farmers.