WOUGNET aims to explore and document the ways in which women and women organisations are using and applying ICTs for sustainable development. WOUGNET has adopted the Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM) that provides a systematic guide to integrating gender analysis and perspectives in ICT for development projects. GEM is developed by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC).
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WOUGNET will join the rest of the world in marking the 16 Days of Activism 2011 from 25 November 2011 to 10 December 2011. This year, the regional theme for Africa is "Everyone, Everyday, Every way: Prevent Violence Against Women Your Way! " to reflect our call out to every individual i that whoever you are, you have the power to do something to prevent violence against women. The national theme for the 16 Days of Activism in Uganda is "From Peace in the Home to Peace in the Nation: End Violence Against Women". |
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With the support of SPIDER, WOUGNET has embarked on a project to empower local people and communities to monitor districts' services delivery through ICTs. WOUGNET plans to make strategic and innovative use of ICTs in order to increase the capacity of grassroot populations to demand better services from their leadership. In particular, the project will target women, through their community based organizations and women groups, who will be supported to be able to monitor service delivery in their districts and to fight corruption through exposure of the state of service delivery. WOUGNET in collaboration with like-minded partners will establish a platform for documenting and disseminating the voices of grassroot people on corruption and service delivery in different locations of Uganda.
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IDRC has co-published a book: "AFRICAN WOMEN AND ICTs Investigating Technology, Gender and Empowerment. The book is edited by Ineke Buskens and Anne Webb.
African Women and ICTs explores the ways in which women in Africa utilize ICTs to facilitate their empowerment; whether through the mobile village phone business, through internet use, or through new career and ICT employment opportunities.
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The Gender Evaluation Methodology for ICTs is an innovative evaluation guide for ICT practitioners seeking an appropriate gender framework and ICT interventions. GEM integrates gender analysis into evaluations of initiatives that uses ICTs for social change and provides a means for determining whether ICTs are really improving women’s lives and gender relations as well as promoting empowering change at individual, institutional, community and broader social levels.
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WOUGNET aims to explore and document the ways in which women and women organisations are using and applying ICTs for sustainable development. WOUGNET has adopted the Gender Evaluation Methodology (GEM - http://www.apcwomen.org/gem) that provides a systematic guide to integrating gender analysis and perspectives in ICT for development projects. GEM is developed by the Association for Progressive Communications (APC - http://www.apc.org).
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