WOUGNET Update Newsletter - February 2007

[Dorothy Okello <dokello@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

WOUGNET Update Newsletter - February 2007
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This month's contents:
1. Women Organisations in Uganda
2. ICT Policy
3. Links & Resources
4. Project News and Events
5. TechTip
6. WOUGNET News
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As we begin a new year, we take this opportunity 
to wish all our readers a very happy and prosperous new year 2007!
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WOMEN ORGANISATIONS IN UGANDA
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= Baropobo Women?s Group gets new website
   http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/bwp.html
Baropobo Women's Group is a community based 
organization whose mission is to transform the 
rural groups into economically viable groups 
through initiation of income generating 
activities in order to fight poverty amongst the 
vulnerable groups such as persons with 
disabilities, women, orphans and persons living 
with HIV/AIDS. Baropobo Women's Group's announces 
the launch of its website, 
http://www.baropobo.kabissa.org, which was 
designed by a volunteer sourced via WOUGNET's Technical Support Program.
http://www.wougnet.org/wo_dir.html#BWP


= Kabaawo Women?s Savings and Credit Development 
Association (KWOSCDA) acquires a new asset.
   http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/kwoscda.html
The members of KWOSDA after pooling together 
resources recently purchased a piece of land in 
Kabaawo Zone, Mutundwe, a Kampala suburb. They 
are planning to put up an office when more funds 
are available. In this office KWOSDA is planning 
to begin adult computer lessons because most of 
the members are computer illiterate.
Currently the group engages in voluntary HIV 
counseling and care in addition to credit 
facilities. The members have learnt how to save 
and their businesses are growing. Among these are 
farming, animal/poultry keeping, electronic 
products dealers, juice/wine processing, 
beekeeping, baking, tailoring, and medical services among many others.
http://www.wougnet.org/wo_dir.html#KWOSCDA


= UWONET: Kayunga Women's Peace Center is launched
   http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/uwonet.html
The Kayunga Women's Peace Center is a home for 
women in the central region of Uganda, who have 
lost their matrimonial homes to their spouses or 
families because of lack of a fair family law in 
Uganda. The Center was launched by the Domestic 
Relations Bill (DRB) Coalition and took place on 
16th January 2007. The purpose of the launching 
ceremony was to lay a foundation stone for the 
Kayunga Women's Peace Center, and to lobby and 
advocate the various stakeholders to support the 
re-tabling of the Domestic Relations Bill (DRB). 
Also at this event, women shared their 
testimonies and experiences all of which will 
build onto the DRB advocacy.  Various cultural 
and traditional leaders attended this function, 
which offered the Coalition a platform to further 
lobby them and seek their support.
For more information, contact Uganda Women's 
Network (UWONET) at info@xxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.wougnet.org/wo_dir.html#UWONET


= Kyabuhangwa Women in Development (KWID) 
Completion Report for 1996 - 2003 Strategic Phase
   http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/kwid.html
Kyabuhangwa Women In Development is a not for 
profit, non-political organisation that was 
established in 1996 to enhance social-economic, 
legal and political development to empower women 
with information and skills to exercise their 
rights and spur developments. This social 
contract provides a coherent framework within 
which poverty, violence, ill health, illiteracy, 
unemployment, environmental degradation, hunger, 
oppression and disunity can be effectively 
addressed. It is located in Kyabuhangwa parish, 
Kamwezi sub-county, Kabale District. It is aiming 
at soliciting local resources, donor funds and 
government support to empower vulnerable groups especially women.
KWID has recently launched its new strategic 
plan, 2004 - 2008. A copy of the completion 
report for the first strategic phase is available online at:
http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/kwid.html


= New contact information
The following organisations have moved offices, 
all other contacts remain the same. All 
organisations have profiles accessible via http://www.wougnet.org/wo_dir.html
a) Hope After Rape (HAR), http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/har.html
HAR has relocated to Bukoto-Kisaasi Road, at the 
turn off to Kampala Gynaecology and Fertility Center in Bukoto, Kampala.
b) Masanafu Women in Development Agency (MWODEA), 
http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/mwodea.html
Masanafu Women in Development Agency has moved to 
Lusaze ­ Sentema Road, off Nabulagala Road 
(adjacent to Mapeera ­ Nabulagala Catholic Church), Kampala.
c) The Association of Uganda Women Lawyers - FIDA 
(U), http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/fidau.html
FIDA (U) has a new email address: fida@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx


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ICT POLICY
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= Assessment of the RCDF from a gender perspective

*** Introduction

The Rural Communication Development Fund (RCDF) 
established under the Rural Communications Policy 
mandated by the Uganda Communications Commission 
(UCC) is meant to act as a means of intervention 
to ensure that basic communications services of 
acceptable quality are accessible at affordable 
prices and at reasonable distances by all people 
in Uganda. The RCDF is meant to do the following: 
to assist in areas where provision of commercial 
services is not feasible, to provide basic access 
(universal), and to promote competition among 
operators. The fund is contributed to by service 
providers and is meant to leverage investment 
rather than provide all the solutions.
*** RCDF Gender Assessment Study

A gender assessment of the RCDF was undertaken by 
members of the Uganda Women Caucus on ICTs (UWCI) 
in 14 districts namely; Kampala, Wakiso, Kayunga, 
Kasese, Bushenyi, Kabale, Kumi, Soroti, 
Sembabule, Rukungiri, Mbale, Mayuge, Kibale and Iganga.
The UWCI's main interests in this assessment was 
to find out the extent to which the RCDF has 
provided universal access to rural communications 
and whether the implementation process had taken 
into consideration gender concerns for the 
equitable benefit of women and men. Secondly, it 
was hoped that the findings would be used to 
undertake gender advocacy activities to promote 
gender sensitive implementation of ICT policies 
and to inform the policy makers of the risks of 
ignoring gender issues. Thirdly the caucus wanted 
to collect evident data to argue the case for 
inclusion of women?s specific needs in policies 
and programmes aimed at Universal access.
It is important to note that the study was not to 
assess the intricacies in the disbursement of 
RCDF funds. The focus was the utilization and 
uptake of services offered by RCDF supported projects by women and men.

The study findings point to the following conclusion:

- That the RCDF policy (2001) has no specific consideration for gender.

- The selection criteria has no gender 
provisions. As such projects supported do not 
necessarily aim at addressing gender imbalances.
- The project beneficiary agencies were basically 
private businesses with a host of educational and 
development oriented NGOs. From evidence 
resulting from snowballing, field interviews and 
information volunteered by the RCDF secretariat 
officials, organizations that have accessed 
funding and that could be classified as women?s 
organizations were not encountered. Another point 
that clearly emerged was that women and girls 
were more likely to benefit from the support if 
it was directed through an agency where women 
were the majority like a girls school or through 
a not for profit organization such as an NGO or CBO.
- The fact that women were the key customers in 
the privately owned computer training centres had 
nothing to do with gender targeting. Many of 
these females go there for secretarial training 
or to learn elementary computer skills to enhance 
their gender stereotyped roles of secretary. 
Those women that were employed as trainers or lab 
attendants were the minority and as far as 
ownership, management and control of those 
private ICT business centres, women were generally lacking.
- The study revealed that although RCDF support 
to various ICT projects has facilitated further 
spread of ICT facilities and services to less 
privileged areas and its communities, some 
members of these communities especially women 
have benefited less from the projects as compared 
to their male counterparts. Lack of a gender 
sensitive implementation strategy has left out 
many would be potential women beneficiaries 
especially as managers and owners of funded enterprises.
- Also the RCDF funding strategy of giving more 
commercially viable projects bigger subsidies as 
compared to less commercially viable projects in 
rural areas leaves out many rural projects hence 
it is possible that the fund is yet to reach and 
benefit most of the rural population. If not 
revised, even the few that managed to get the 
subsidy may not be able to get the funding for 
more projects because of the continuous low 
economic returns as well as the requirement for subsidy.


*** Call for contributions/reactions to the findings:

WOUGNET would like to take a further step to ask 
for your comments/input to the study.

a) How can gender be mainstreamed in the RCDF 
implementation for both men and women to benefit?
b) Utilization/access to RCDF supported projects 
by women does not necessarily imply gender 
targeting. Gender stereotyping is likely to be 
enhanced even with increased use of the computer 
training centres by women. What measures can the 
RCDF program take to prevent this?
c) What measures can be taken to enable the 
rural/very poor access the RCDF fund vis-a-vis 
the market/liberalized approach to disbursement of the funds?
Please send your comments/contributions/reactions to info@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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LINKS & RESOURCES
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a) Agriculture -- DOCUMENT URLS WORD & PDF

= EC Discussion Paper on African Agriculture
   http://www.wougnet.org/Links/agriculture.html#ECDP
The European Commission has requested the 
Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural 
Cooperation ACP-EU (CTA) to facilitate 
consultations with the African farmer's 
organisations and civil society groups on a paper 
related to proposed cooperation on African 
agriculture. On the basis of the various inputs, 
the Commission intends to produce a Communication 
on EU-AU cooperation on agricultural development, 
outlining the priority areas and modalities of 
such cooperation. Cooperation at these levels is 
meant to both complement and stimulate 
agricultural development at the national level, 
the level where most investments take place and 
where the most intense cooperation will remain relevant.
The discussion paper lists the main challenges to 
African agriculture, as viewed by the European 
Commission on the basis of a range of recent 
reports and discussions, and describes main lines 
of African and EU policies on agricultural 
development before making a proposal for 
cooperation at continental and regional levels in 
seven areas: Agriculture in Development 
Strategies, Sector Governance; Research, 
Knowledge Systems and Dissemination; Trade 
Facilitation with an emphasis on quality 
assurance and improvement; Natural Resource 
Management: Land, Fisheries, Forestry; Livestock 
Disease Control; and Risk Management.
The main challenges and opportunities identified 
by the discussion paper are grouped around six 
topics: (i) developing an updated integrated 
vision on agricultural development and its place 
in economic growth and poverty alleviation, based 
on a diversified rural livelihoods concept and 
economic linkages with other sectors; (ii) 
strengthening agricultural sector governance, in 
re-considering the role of the state, private 
sector and civil society, as well as the 
interrelations between these actors; (iii) 
improving rural productivity, by scaling up a 
range of known technological and managerial 
improvements, and by expanding research and 
making it more effective; (iv) accessing 
remunerative markets, both with respect to 
enhancing physical access and to making use of 
(niche) markets, products and structures that can 
assist in obtaining better prices; (v) managing 
the natural resource base in a sustainable 
manner, in establishing more effective management 
regimes and in ensuring positive economic returns 
to sustainable use; and (vi) reducing risks and 
vulnerabilities, with respect to price 
fluctuations and adverse climatic events, scaling 
up the use of innovative financial, information and safety net schemes.
You have the opportunity to give your input on 
this proposal.Readers are invited to contribute 
to the EC Discussion Paper before February 28, 
2007. Contributions should be submitted to 
Isolina Boto, Head, CTA Brussels Office, 39 rue 
Montoyer, 1000 Brussels-Belgium. Tel: + 32 (0) 2 
513 74 36 (direct); Fax: + 32 (0) 2 511 38 68. 
E-mail: boto@xxxxxxxx The discussion paper is available online at:
http://www.wougnet.org/Links/agriculture.html#ECDP



b) Development

= Resource Team (U) Ltd
   http://www.wougnet.org/Links/development.html#RTUL
Resource Team (RT)?s mission is to increase 
client productivity through provision of 
adaptable management solutions. The organization 
operates in all areas of Uganda and deals with 
issues concerning women?s education and 
entrepreneurship and all areas of Human Resource 
development. RT conducts training in aspects of 
entrepreneurship, customer care, personal 
development, HIV/AIDS at the workplace, 
preparation for retirement, events management, 
research in Human Resource and gender, 
organizational development. RT is affiliated to 
Conceptor International USA, and handle Youth, 
Women in development and the Workforce.


c) ICT Related

= Research ICT Africa!: SME e-Access and Usage across 14 African countries
   http://www.wougnet.org/Links/ictresources.html#RIA
Research ICT Africa! (RIA) has published a new 
chapter in their e-Index research. At the end of 
2006 the report 'Towards an African e-Index: SME 
e-Access and Usage Across 14 African countries' 
was published. The SME e- Access and Usage survey 
was carried out across 14 African countries 
between the last quarter of 2005 and the first 
quarter of 2006. The report explores the impact 
of ICT on private sector development, and how ICT 
can contribute to a vibrant SME sector and 
economic growth in the context of developing 
economies. The countries covered included 
Botswana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, 
Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, South 
Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe. A 
copy of the report is available online at:
http://www.researchictafrica.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=504 



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PROJECT NEWS AND EVENTS
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April 2007

= Workshop - Gender-based Violence: Communicating 
Information and Good Practice Interventions to 
Policymakers, Kampala, Uganda, 23 April - 4 May 2007
   http://www.wougnet.org/Events/projectnews07.html#GBV07
Gender-based violence (GBV) is a pervasive public 
health and human rights problem throughout the 
world. Increasingly, resources are spent on 
research studies, surveys, and program 
evaluations that are aimed at improving our 
understanding of the underlying issues and the 
interventions needed to fight GBV. Yet all too 
frequently, these data and good practices fail to 
reach policymakers and, consequently, are not 
used to shape policies and programs.
The Institute of Public Health (IPH), at Makerere 
University, and the Population Reference Bureau 
(PRB), are pleased to inform you of an upcoming 
sub-Saharan Africa regional workshop dedicated 
toward developing policy communication and 
advocacy skills among program officials, 
researchers, and advocates working in the area of 
gender-based violence. The workshop is sponsored 
by USAID's Global Bureau and Bureau for Africa. 
The workshop has been planned for researchers, 
program managers, advocates and others 
responsible for formulating and implementing 
programs to reduce gender-based violence. The 
deadline for receiving applications is March 15, 2007.


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TechTip
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= Is Your Computer Sending Out Viruses Without 
Your Knowing It? Use Virus Software and Keep It Up To Date!
Did you know that your computer can send out 
viruses without your knowing it? There are evil 
computer programs created only to plant 
themselves on your computer and send themselves 
as e-mails to everyone in your email address 
book, to people you have received e-mails from 
recently, or people you have written recently. 
Sometimes the programs just merely replicate and 
cause no real harm; often, however, they secretly 
destroy data on your computer!
The credibility of your organization can be 
adversely affected if users can trace a virus 
they have received back to you, or if you lose 
valuable donor information, accounting data, etc. because of a virus attack.
You have the means to make sure your computers 
are not spreading viruses and aren't susceptible to attacks! It's easy:
    * if you already have virus software, look 
up the web site for the manufacturer of this 
software regularly and download the appropriate 
updated virus definitions, upgrades and patches. 
If you feel that you don't have the technical 
know how to do this, get help, either from a 
technical volunteer or hire the services of a professional.
    * visit tech-based websites, such as 
TechSoup <www.techsoup.org> and type "virus" into 
the search engine; you will have access to 
various resources regarding preventing and 
countering computer viruses, provided in 
easy-to-understand language. You can also visit a 
general search engine, like <www.google.com> or 
<www.yahoo.com> and search for ?antivirus software?.
    * if you do not have virus protection 
software, INVEST IN IT NOW. If you have the 
funding, buy a commercially available version of 
antivirus software. If you don?t have the funds, 
there are also free antivirus software packages 
available on the internet. Both versions are 
sufficient for your basic protection. The key is 
to keep the software up-to-date because new viruses are developed everyday.
The text was adapted from an article posted on 
http://www.coyotecom.com/tech/viruses.html

This Tech Tip was compiled by the WOUGNET 
Technical Support Team. For more information or 
for assistance in managing your computer, contact techsupport@xxxxxxxxxxx


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WOUGNET News
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= WOUGNET Annual January Meeting 2007

The WOUGNET Annual January Meeting was held on 
February 1st 2007 at Hotel Africana in Kampala, 
and attended by 42 participants. The overall 
objective was to review the WOUGNET Activity 
Report for 2006, Action Plan 2007 and to get 
members? input for the way forward as well as 
presentations and sharing on Information 
Communication Technologies (ICTs) for 
development. The keynote address on the theme 
"ICT for Development in the Perspective of the 
Millennium Development Goals for Women" was 
delivered by Dr. Johnson Nkuuhe. Other topics 
covered were the role of ICTs in agriculture, 
entrepreneurship, health and education. An 
official from the Rural Communications 
Development Fund (RDCF), administered by Uganda 
Communications Commission, and an official from 
the Ministry of ICT also made presentations.
A report of the meeting will be made available 
online. For further information, contact WOUGNET 
at Plot 53 Kira Road, Kamwokya, Tel: 041 4532035, 
Fax: 041 4530474, E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxx


= Women?s ICT Based Enterprises (WIE) Guide: Now Available

In February 2006, WOUGNET hosted the ?More and 
Better Women?s ICT-based Enterprises in Uganda? 
workshop which is one element of a women?s 
ICT-based enterprises (WIE) project whose goal is 
the creation of more and better women?s ICT based 
enterprises in Uganda that are majority-owned 
and/or run by women and that operate in the ICT 
sector for example data entry, e-services, IT 
training, cyber cafés, hardware assembly, 
software development, etc. The WIE project in 
Uganda is part of a global Women's ICT 
Enterprises Project, which is coordinated by Dr. 
Richard Heeks of the University of Manchester. 
The Uganda project is supported by the University 
of Manchester through funding from the UK 
Department for International Development (DFID).
Following the workshop and with input from the 
participants, WOUGNET has printed a localized 
version of a guide that serves to promote, 
initiate and improve women's ICT-based 
enterprises. Copies of the guide, which includes 
a foreword by Dr. Maggie Kigozi, Executive 
Director - Uganda Investment Authority, are 
available in English, Luo and Luganda. For 
information on how to obtain a copy, contact 
Brenda Muyanja, WOUGNET Information Officer at 
Plot 53 Kira Road, Kamwokya, Tel: 041 4532035, 
Fax: 041 4530474, E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxx An 
electronic copy of the guide is available online 
at: http://www.wougnet.org/Projects/wieug.html


= WOUGNET featured on Dutch Television
On 11 February 2007, WOUGNET was featured on 
Dutch Television on the SBS6 channel. The 
documentary which was sponsored by Hivos was 
highlighting the work being done by Hivos 
partners in Uganda. In the case of WOUGNET, the 
filming focused on the role of ICTs and access to 
timely information for rural women farmers in Apac.
In 2005, a project on ?Enhancing Access to 
Agricultural Information using ICTs (EAAI)? was 
initiated with support from the Technical Centre 
for Agricultural and Rural Co-operation (CTA). 
The project is implemented in twelve parishes in 
Apac District, Northern Uganda, targeting 
grassroots women farmers as the main 
beneficiaries. Its main objective is to develop 
and improve information and communication systems 
so as to enable easy access to agricultural 
information for rural women farmers in Apac 
district. ICTs in use include community radio, 
radio cassettes, audio/video cassettes, CD-ROMs, 
and these are complemented by regular face-to-face meetings.


= Ugabytes Initiative & WOUGNET: Integrating 
telecentres in community programmes
Over 65% of rural population acquires information 
by word of mouth and yet the Civil Society 
Organizations are the central sources of 
information and dissemination. In developing and 
promoting the Telecentre movement, it is quite 
necessary to integrate Community Based 
Organisations (CBOs) and Non-Government 
Organisations (NGOs) in the activities of 
telecentres. Ugabytes Initiative is therefore 
coming up with a pilot project code named 
?Integration of CBOs in Telecentre programmes? to 
empower rural communities with information and 
communication tools. The pilot project shall 
involve three telecentres: Kubere Information 
Centre - Apac in Northern Uganda, a WOUGNET 
project; Uganda Development Services (UDS) 
telecentre in Kamuli; and Busoga Rural Open 
Source Development Initiative (BROSDI)?s 
telecentre in Mayuge, Eastern Uganda. The project is supported by Hivos.
The project is to form community telecentres 
based on user groups, telecentre staff through 
capacity building and apply information and 
knowledge packaging and sharing through ICTs. 
Ugabytes Initiative Executive Director Sulah 
Ndaula said at the project start-up 
conceptualization and leveling workshop in 
Kampala that, ?The project is to facilitate CBOs? 
access, appreciate and utilize information 
communication technology centre as information channels at community level.?
The workshop was organized for CMC managers, 
their respective head office management team to 
share ideas for the project. Ndaula said the 
project would be implemented in two phases: the 
first phase aims at putting in place user groups 
according to community needs and economic 
activities around the telecentre. In this phase 
the user groups will then be responsible for 
identifying the community members? needs to 
easily identify the information gaps and suggest 
appropriate communication and dissemination 
channels using the ICT tools. In the second phase 
of the project it will basically involve capacity 
building through practical and theoretical orientation workshops.
The project is to develop structured training 
materials, procedures and frameworks for 
community integration, user group formation 
procedures, challenges and opportunities for 
involving CBOs into ICT usage and documentation 
for showcases. The project will then finally be 
integrated into the online support centre 
targeting English-speaking telecentre 
practitioners. So the online support centre, 
periodic telecentre issues shall be discussed 
thus leading to subsequent online trainings.
(Source: Telecentre Times, UgaBYTES Initiatives)



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