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Mon, Feb 27th
CSW 56: Rural Women Empowerment, Poverty Reduction, and Rural Development

WOUGNET Office

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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On behalf of Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET), we take this opportunity to invite you to participate in WOUGNET’s 10^th Anniversary since its inception in 2000 as a non profit organisation with the mission of promoting and supporting the use of ICT by women and women organisations in Uganda, so that they can take advantage of the opportunities presented by ICTs in order to effectively address local and national problems for sustainable national development.

During the ten years of her existence, WOUGNET has made various achievements over the ten years. Some of the achievements over the years include;

- Networking and information sharing among women and women organizations in Uganda and world wide.

- Received an award in 'ICT Advocacy' category for promoting the communication sector from Uganda Communications Commission (UCC)

- WOUGNET Website received the World Summit Award (WSA) in 'e-inclusion' category

- WOUGNET Website received the Africa Information Society Initiative (AISI) Media Award in the International Institute for Communication and Development (IICD) supported category of 'Local Content'

- Development of strong partnerships with key policy makers such as the former Ministry of Works, Housing and Communications and the current Ministry of ICT (MoICT), the National Planning Authority (NPA), and Uganda Communications Commission (UCC)

- Received funding from the Association for Progressive Communication (APC), the Dimitra Project/FAO, Global Fund for Women (GFW), Hivos, the Technical Center for Agriculture and Rural Co-operation ACP-EU (CTA) and The New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD).

The work of WOUGNET has been made possible with support from various partners and network members in addition to well-wishers.

As a mark to celebrate our achievements and continue with the work towards supporting women empowerment, a number of activities have been planned during the week-long celebration. These will include:

** An SMS awareness campaign - During the last week of May, WOUGNET intends to run an SMS awareness campaign about what we do at Women of Uganda Network, who we work with and our plans for the anniversary.

** A Symposium and Exhibition - during which various presentations will take place, an exhibition - featuring various institutions, corporate companies, NGOs, CBOs, and WOUGNET members' works. This event is scheduled for 1 - 2 June 2010.

The purpose of this article is to therefore:

1. Request all network members who will be interested in participating in the one week SMS awareness campaign to kindly let us know by sending an email to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

2. Invite network members to exhibit for two days during the celebrations at a much subsided fee of on 50,000 Uganda Shillings (25 US$). Please confirm as at exhibitor as soon as possible to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it / This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

3. Seek financial and material support from you towards the week-long event and support towards WOUGNET's cause. (We do have pledge cards. In case you would like to support WOUGNET with any donation, please contact Mr. Danny Devito Gotto on This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

WOUGNET will provide space to any organizations that will have supported this cause by paying the 50,000/= (25 US$) and confirming active participation.)

Also, our technical support program is preparing a lot of new forms of technology to showcase and share with the members. These include but are not limited to: Digital media and Web 2.0 technologies. This session will be called the “Technical Clinic”. All your technical questions will be answered. I am sure that you do not want to miss out on this.

Your contribution towards the event will make WOUGNET 10^th Anniversary a big success of celebrating our achievements and supporting the use of ICTs by Women and Women Organisations in Uganda.

For more information, do not hesitate to contact us at

Tel: +256 (0)41 4532035, Fax: +256 (0)41 4530474 or email: This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it

Kind regards

Danny Devito Gotto

Fund-raising Manager

Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)

Maureen Agena

Information Officer