Postings from Uganda:
Women will not necessarily matter when it comes to men's political interests.
They (men) will push as hard as they want to get what they want. And therefore
we need to work harder so that the gains that have been made continue and do
not begin to look like tokenism. Otherwise we will just have our positions
and that is all. We need affirmative action, but that is not the only place
for us. The women who have stood for parliament have demonstrated this as well.
That women belong to the constituencies as well as the men do.
...COPAW representative
Visiting womens' projects in Kampala
Visiting Womens' Projects in Gulu District
Mbarara District projects and lobbying Central District Committee with Hon. Miria Matembe
Women will not necessarily matter when it comes to men's political interests.
They (men) will push as hard as they want to get what they want. And therefore
we need to work harder so that the gains that have been made continue and do
not begin to look like tokenism. Otherwise we will just have our positions
and that is all. We need affirmative action, but that is not the only place
for us. The women who have stood for parliament have demonstrated this as well.
That women belong to the constituencies as well as the men do.
...COPAW representative
Visiting womens' projects in Kampala
Visiting Womens' Projects in Gulu District
Mbarara District projects and lobbying Central District Committee with Hon. Miria Matembe
A delegation of eight women leaders from California are meeting with women leaders throughout Uganda July, 2001. Our purposes are to:
. "fine-tune" the mechanisms we designed together in January for global communication and collaboration.
. strengthen and develop partnerships between WIN and our US sisters organizations and Ugandan women's organizations, and
. leverage the power of technology for local advocacy and democracy building
Co-Sponsors of the Uganda Circle II
Forum For Women In Democracy (FOWODE)
Action for Development (ACFODE)
Lydia Bakaki ( Member, WIN Board of Directors and Delegation Coordinator for ACFODE)
The Honorable Miria Matembe, Minister for Ethics and Integrity Office of the President, Uganda
US Department of State, Burearu of Educational and Cultural Affairs as a Co-Sponsor with the Women's Intercultural Network
Technical Team working to post this site:
Dorothy Okello: WOUGNET Women of Uganda Network / dokello@wougnet.org
Cynthia Gehrie: Video Documentation Partnership / vdf19@email.msn.com
Dubravko Kakarigi: InSysCo / dubravko@kakarigi.net
Rehema Baguma: WOUGNET Administration Board and with the Council for EconomicEmpowerment of Women in Africa (CEEWA) / brehema@yahoo.co.uk
Internet home in Kampala: Council for Economic Empowerment of Women in Africa (CEEWA)
Internet home in US: WIN-CAWA, or Women's Intercultural Network and California Women's Agenda
Hosted at InSysCo in Tallahassee, Florida.