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As part of their work in Uganda, the Association for Progressive Communications (APC) and Women of Uganda Network made a call for proposals for projects that seek to address the intersection between violence against women and girls, and/or to stop violence against women and girls through the strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) during the month of June 2010. The call targeted proposals that would address the following;

•   Development of tools and platforms that would facilitate women and girls’ access, use and development of ICTs, with a particular focus on secure online communications
•   Implementation of strategies that strengthen women's participation in ICT policy processes
•   Projects that promote the strategic use of ICT tools in projects and programmes that address violence against women
•   Projects that improve sexual assault survivors access to ICTs to assist in access to information and resources
•   Projects that use ICTs to support the collection of data and statistics
•   Research projects that contribute to knowledge about the interconnections of violence against women and ICTs
•   Building the ICT capacities of providers of services to sexual violence survivors
•   Empowerment and self-healing methodologies through strategic use of ICTs for women and adolescent girl survivors of violence
•   Capacity-building workshops that aim to build the skills of women and girls in the strategic use of ICTs to end violence against women and girls
•   Advocacy campaigns to lobby for policy changes that increase access to information and communication resources and expand communication rights for women and girls
•   Awareness raising campaigns to build common knowledge, establish and amplify context-specific discourses on the issue of violence against women and girls and ICTs

Proposals were accepted from organisations in Uganda operating from a not-for-profit framework. A total of 21 applications were received and reviewed by a team of 7 persons knowledgeable in ICTs and VAW. Following the review four (4) organisations have been selected as beneficiaries of the small grants and they include Uganda Women Media’s Association, Mahyoro Rural Information Centre and Hope Case Foundation and Isis WICCE. Implementation of the activities is expected to commence September 2010 to June 2011.

Background

The Association for Progressive Communications is an international network of civil society organisations (CSOs) dedicated to empowering and supporting people working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment through the strategic use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

APC's work in women's rights and gender equality is done through its Women’s Networking Support Programme (WNSP), a global network of women that has supported women's networking for social change and empowerment since 1993. APC WNSP is an international facilitator of civil society’s engagement with ICT and its related concerns in policies and practices. Contributions have been made at global, regional and national levels and particularly in developing countries through raising awareness, technical training for women, developing tools and information resources, building capacity in gender evaluation and influencing policies to ensure that ICT benefit women in transformative and empowering ways. WOUGNET is a member of the APC, and has engaged with the Women’s Networking Support Programme for a number of years.

“Take Back the Tech! to end violence against women and girls” exposes the connections between violence against women and ICTs in practice and policy 12 countries. It has three main objectives:
-   to build and strengthen the capacity of women, girls and women’s rights organisations to use, reclaim and shape ICTs to stop violence against women and girls
-   to create platforms and opportunities for women and girls to critically engage with ICTs to combat violence, and as survivors of violence, to contribute towards self and collective healing
-   to build feminist analysis, particularly around the intersections of violence against women and ICT into global, regional and national ICT policy processes

Women of Uganda Network is the Uganda country partner for the project and has implemented a number of other activities including the national strategy workshop, Feminist Tech eXchange, Take Back the Tech campaign, advocacy dialogues, research and publication of the country issues paper on VAW and ICTs etc.

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