WOUGNET Update Newsletter - April 2007

[Dorothy Okello <dokello@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

WOUGNET Update Newsletter - April 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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WOMEN ORGANISATIONS IN UGANDA
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= Uganda Muslim Women Association for Daawa and Development (UMWADD)
   http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/umwadd.html
Uganda Muslim Women Association for Daawa and 
Development (UMWADD) was established in 2002, 
with a mission to take services nearer to the 
people (women) and to work towards ensuring that 
the vulnerable and poor in the community have 
access to the fundamental rights of life.
The organization, which operates in all parts of 
Uganda, covers the areas of women?s education, 
women?s economic empowerment and poverty 
eradication. This is done through teaching and 
promoting the image of Islam, promoting 
self-reliance, maintaining peace, putting up 
income generating projects, promoting literacy 
and discussing matters related to development through seminars and workshops.
http://www.wougnet.org/wo_dir.html#UMWADD



= Commonwealth Women?s Network (CWN):
Poverty Remains the Face of a Woman, ?Will the 
new aid modalities transform commonwealth 
societies to achieve gender equality??
   http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/eassi.html#CWNASF

On 23rd January 2007, Commonwealth women came 
together to discuss and debate this crucial 
question at the World Social Forum in Nairobi, 
Kenya. The deliberation on the issue of gender in 
relation to poverty was part of preparations by 
civil society in the run up to the two key 
summits of 2007, the Commonwealth Women?s Affairs 
Ministers Meeting (June, Uganda) and the 
Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (November, Uganda).
Despite many aid initiatives, poverty remains 
endemic in most commonwealth countries. Poverty 
is particularly embodied in the roles placed on 
women as it affects key fundamental human rights 
such as access to education. The Commonwealth is 
host to some of the world?s poorest nations as 
well as four of the world?s richest nations. More 
than 800 million people in the Commonwealth live 
on less than $1 a day. Throughout the early 1990s 
many Commonwealth countries were urged by the 
World Bank and other donors to develop national 
poverty reduction strategies in exchange for debt 
relief. Also in Monterrey in 2002, there was 
commitment by aid agencies to scale up 
development aid in order to meet Millennium Development Goals.
In 2005, the Commonwealth Foundation produced 
?Breaking with Business as Usual? that sought to 
assess how far countries were achieving the MDGs. 
Clearly, many Commonwealth countries will not be 
bale to achieve the MDG targets by 2015. To 
further improve upon aid effectiveness, 
development partners are now committed to the 
Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness, which was 
endorsed in 2005. The Declaration hinges on 5 key 
principles of Ownership, Alignment, 
Harmonization, Managing for Results and Mutual Accountability.
These new aid modalities should ideally provide 
the opportunity for development partners and 
Commonwealth states to actualize commitments to 
gender equality. Uganda and Mozambique are 
examples where this is possible. But this is not 
the case for most Commonwealth countries.


= AMwA: New AMwa UK/Europe Regional Coordinator
   http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/amwau.html#AmWAUKE

As a follow-up of the relocation of our 
Headquarters from London to Kampala and the 
restructuring of the London Office, Akina Mama wa 
Afrika (AMwA) is pleased to announce Ms. Afua 
Twum-Danso who took office as the UK/Europe 
Regional Coordinator as of 12th March 2007. She 
will head our UK/Europe Office based in London, United Kingdom.
Ms. Afua Twum-Danso has over seven years of 
experience in research, advocacy, and capacity 
building with a special focus on children's 
rights, the rights of the girl child and child 
participation. She has worked for local and 
international non-governmental organizations in the UK, Thailand and Ghana.
Akina Mama wa Afrika is proud to recruit Afua who 
is also an alumni of the African Women's 
Leadership Institute (AWLI) and thus bears 
testimony to AMwA's investment in young women's 
leadership development. With her experience, 
skills, and enthusiasm, Afua is ready to steer 
AMwA UK/Europe programmes to greater heights in 
its new mandate of: capacity building of African 
women; policy influencing; networking; advocacy 
and lobbying on issues affecting African women 
both on the continent and in the Diaspora.


= FIDA: Introduction of FIDA Acting Coordinator, Mrs. Brenda Nabatanzi Mpanga
   http://www.wougnet.org/Profiles/fidau.html
On behalf of the Board I would like to take this 
opportunity to introduce to you Mrs. Brenda 
Nabatanzi Mpanga who is the Ag. Executive 
Director with effect from 1st April 2007, until 
we identify and recruit a new director. Brenda is 
very pleasant and has taken on this interim 
responsibility with determination and commitment.
We do appreciate you cooperation, partnership with us and collaboration.

Norah Matovu Winyi
Chairperson
Uganda Association of Women Lawyers (FIDA - Uganda)
http://www.wougnet.org/wo_dir.html#FIDAU




= Public Dialogue: ?Constitutional Court Ruling 
on Criminal Adultery : Gender Implications and Challenges?
The Department of Women and Gender Studies, 
Makerere University, is organising a public 
dialogue ?Constitutional Court Ruling on Criminal 
Adultery : Gender Implications and Challenges? to 
be held on Friday 13th April 2007 at 2:30pm and 
the venue is Lecture Room 2, Department of Women 
and Gender Studies, Makerere University.
Chief speaker at the dialogue is Hon. Dora 
Byamukama, Member of the East African Legislative 
Assembly and Director of Law and Advocacy for 
Women in Uganda (LAW-Uganda). On 5th April 2007, 
the Constitutional Court has pronounced itself on 
the Case filed by LAW-Uganda on criminal adultery 
and the gender insesnsitve provisions in the 
Succession Act. Hon. Byamukama and her colleagues 
will present  the ruling and this will be 
followed by comments and discussions .
For further information, contact Associate Prof. 
Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo, Head, Department of 
Women & Gender Studies, at gbantebya@xxxxxxxxxxxx


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ICT POLICY
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= UNITAR: The Role of ICT Policy in Empowering 
and Protecting the Rights of the Girl Child
On 5 March 2007, the United Nations Institute for 
Training and Research (UNITAR) hosted a seminar 
on ?The Role of ICT Policy in Empowering and 
Protecting the Rights of the Girl Child? as part 
of the UNITAR Web Seminar Series on ICT Policy 
Issues for Development. This seminar took place 
in parallel with the 51st Session of the 
Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), whose 
priority theme was ?the elimination of all forms 
of discrimination and violence against the girl child?.
This seminar's objectives focused on the 
following: raising awareness on how women and men 
are involved in ICT and ICT policy; providing 
information on the potential for ICT as a tool 
for empowering women and girls, particularly in 
developing countries; outlining the current ICT 
legal and policy frameworks pertaining to the 
specific rights of the girl child; sharing of 
case studies on current strategies and action 
plans that protect and empower the girl child; 
and contributing substantively to the work of the 
51st Session on the Commission on the Status of Women.
This event was organized in collaboration with 
the Intel Corporation, the United Nations 
Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW), the 
International Research and Training Institute for 
the Advancement of Women (INSTRAW), the United 
Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), and 
the Global Alliance for ICT and Development 
(GAID). The attendees included 10 delegates 
representing 8 countries; 3 members of UN 
organizations; 27 members of the NGO Community; 4 
representatives from Local Governments; 1 representative from academia and
2 representatives from the Private Sector.

WOUGNET was among the participants and made a 
presentation 'Engendering National ICT Policy 
Processes: WOUGNET Experience'. Materials from 
this event, along with the recorded webcast, are 
available for download at: 
http://www.unitarny.org/en/girlchild_materials.html.
A copy of the WOUGNET presentation as well as a 
summary of the seminar report are also available 
by email, send a request to info@xxxxxxxxxxx



= WSIS e-Agriculture Working Group: e-Agriculture 
should focus on Information over Technology
   http://www.itu.int/wsis/c7/e-agriculture/index.html
A recent global online survey, conducted as a 
follow-up to the World Summit on the Information 
Society (WSIS), indicates that improving 
information and communication processes should be 
the top priority in furthering global discussions 
and related actions in e-Agriculture.  The survey 
identified ways to enhance sustainable 
agricultural development and food security by 
improving the use of information and 
communication technologies in the sector.
Almost half of stakeholders working in 
agriculture identified e-Agriculture with 
improvements in processes such as information 
dissemination, access, and exchange; and 
communication, participation, and 
network/community-building activities amongst 
rural stakeholders. In contrast, only a third 
mentioned technological tools, such as mobile 
phones, computers, or the internet.
The survey, conducted in late 2006 by the WSIS 
e-Agriculture Working Group, gauged stakeholders? 
opinions relating to e-Agriculture, including: 
familiarity with and definitions for the term; 
benefits and challenges of e-Agriculture; and 
priorities to be addressed in an international 
forum.  The survey, which is being used to 
determine further action to implement 
e-Agriculture, received responses from over 3400 
participants in more than 135 countries.
Stakeholders clearly indicated a range of 
important technical subjects to be addressed 
through e-Agriculture, including farming 
techniques and practices, market/food chains, and 
research. The survey results will guide efforts 
in addressing the concerns of stakeholders and 
bringing their views to the attention of the international community.
Dr. Anton Mangstl, Director of the Knowledge 
Exchange and Capacity Building Division within 
the Knowledge and Communication Department, Food 
and Agriculture Organization of the United 
Nations (FAO) states, ?E-Agriculture was seen to 
be more than just new ways of using technology 
but a contributing factor in the achievement of 
broader development goals. We are encouraged by 
the response we received in this global survey, 
and the interest in furthering e-Agriculture on a global scale. ?
A more detailed report on the e-Agriculture 
survey is available on the WSIS official website: 
http://www.itu.int/wsis/c7/e-agriculture/index.html. 
A purpose-built interactive e-Agriculture website 
will be launched in 2007, and will feature a user 
forum, resources, tools, and other content chosen 
by global stakeholders and based on respondent?s contributions to the survey.
The objective of the e-Agriculture Working Group 
is to create multi-stakeholder, people-centred, 
cross-sectoral platform that will bring together 
stakeholders representing relevant constituencies 
of e-Agriculture. Members include: Consultative 
Group on International Agricultural Research 
(CGIAR); Technical Centre for Agriculture and 
Rural Development (CTA); UN Department of 
Economic and Social Affairs (DESA); FAO; 
Gesellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit (GTZ); 
Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR); 
Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on 
Agriculture (IICA); International Association of 
Agricultural Information Specialists (IAALD); 
International Centre for Communication for 
Development (IICD); International Fund for 
Agricultural Development (IFAD); International 
Telecommunications Union (ITU); World Bank.
Contact:
Charlotte Masiello-Riome
Communication and Promotion Officer, FAO
WSIS e-Agriculture Communications Focal Point
charlotte.masiello@xxxxxxx



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LINKS & RESOURCES
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a) Agriculture

= CIAT: Identifying Market Opportunities for 
Rural Smallholder Producers. Good Practice Guide 3
   http://www.wougnet.org/Links/agriculture.html#IMORSP
The 'Identifying Market Opportunities for Rural 
Smallholder Producers' guide is the third in a 
series designed to support agencies implementing 
a participatory approach to rural agroenterprise 
development. This publication combines market 
research, product concept evaluation and business 
analysis techniques, within a practical, 
innovative approach for identifying market 
opportunities for rural agroenterprise 
development projects within a defined area or 
territory. The participatory methods enable rural 
producers to make key decisions in market analysis and evaluation.
The guide is produced by CIAT. The International 
Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) is a 
not-for-profit research and development 
organization dedicated to reducing poverty and 
hunger while protecting natural resources in developing countries.


b) ICT-related

= ICT Hub Knowledgebase
   http://www.wougnet.org/Links/ictresources.html#IHKB
ICT Hub Knowledgebase offers an interesting and 
exhaustive list of funders financing ICT based 
projects. According to the ICT Hub Knowledgebase 
"there are a number of trusts and grant funders 
who look favorably on applications for ICT within 
a project application, a limited number of 
funders will specifically fund ICT. Those that we know about are listed here."

= Wireless Africa Group
   http://www.wougnet.org/Links/ictresources.html#WAG
In the recent years, there have been numerous 
efforts using low cost and "unlicensed" wireless 
technologies aimed at building a sustainable data 
infrastructure in Africa. Several groups have 
successfully worked in activities related to 
training, dissemination and advocacy, research 
and development of wireless networking across the continent.
It is understood and agreed that a large and 
scalable effort is needed. This working group is 
open to enthusiasts in community wireless 
networking to design and plan a common and large 
integrated initiative in Africa. The group is 
intended for people interested in the application 
of low-cost wireless technologies to social and 
economic development issues in Africa. It is a 
community for techies, activists, researchers, entrepreneurs, and funders.


c) Women and Gender

= Ideas on working with girls ­ free CD available
   http://www.wougnet.org/Links/aboutwomen.html#IWTCGCD
Women, Ink., a project of the International 
Women?s Tribune Centre (IWTC), has compiled a 
resource collection of games, training manuals, 
workshop guides etc. for teachers, trainers and 
development workers who are working for and with 
girls.  Released at the 51st Commission on the 
Status of Women, the collection includes some 31 
resources on various subjects including 
empowerment, HIV/AIDS, sexuality and reproductive 
health, violence against women, racism, 
self-esteem and leadership development.
The full resource collection is available on the 
IWTC website <http://www.iwtc.org> or on a CD. 
The CD is free and there will be no postage 
charge for organizations and individuals who 
request a copy from the Global South. North-based 
groups or individuals will be charged a $10 
shipping and handling fee. Write to joey@xxxxxxxxxxxx for more information.


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PROJECT NEWS AND EVENTS
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April 2007

= 2007 Commonweath People's Forum: Footage and 
Interviews from NGOs/Civil Society in Uganda
   http://www.wougnet.org/Events/projectnews07.html#CPF07

Organisers of the 2007 Commonweath People's Forum 
inform NGOs and Civil Society in Uganda that Mr. 
David Obot has been assigned responsibility to 
organize footage (TV Short messages always about 
15-30 Seconds) on views, experiences or useful 
information from the Ugandan participants about 
the Commonwealth People's Forum (CPF).
Representatives of organisations who might have 
participated in previous CPFs or plans to 
participate in the forthcoming CPF in Uganda are 
requested to contact Mr. David Obot or Mr. Henry 
Owera for further information and to arrange from 
the footage/interviews. Organisations should 
indicate their interest by 28 April 2007.
Contact:
David Obot
Tel.: +256-77-2501985 (Mobile); 0414-288781 (Office)
Email: david.obot@xxxxxxxxx



May 2007

= Joint AfNOG'2007, AfriNIC-6 and ISOC INET 
Africa meeting, Abuja, Nigeria, 1 - 4 May 2007
   http://www.wougnet.org/Events/projectnews07.html#AfNOG07

The joint AfNOG'2007, AfriNIC-6 and ISOC INET 
Africa meeting will be held in Abuja, from May 1 
to 4, 2007 in Abuja, Nigeria. This four day event 
will provide a public forum for the African 
Internet community and policy makers to discuss 
different aspects of the Internet on the 
continent, from Network Operations to Internet 
Resources Management Policies and Standards 
development, including the impact of 
International Domain Names, unwanted traffic, 
security and the governance of internet on 
national and regional information societies and ICT capacity building.
The INET meeting, organized by the Internet 
Society (ISOC), will comprise of a technical 
session on unwanted traffic on the Internet and 
security challenges, in the morning. The 
afternoon will be dedicated to Internet 
governance and will focus on the priorities for 
Africa for the Internet Governance Forum that 
will take place in Rio de Janerio, Brazil, in November 2007


= Call for Papers: Women's Narratives, War, and Peace-Building
   http://www.wougnet.org/Events/projectnews07.html#WNWPB

Critical Half, the bi-annual academic journal of 
Women for Women International, is currently 
seeking submissions for its Summer 2007 issue, 
which will focus on the function of women's 
individual and collective narratives during and 
after war and civil conflict. Women for Women 
International provides women survivors of war, 
civil strife, and other conflicts with the tools 
and resources to move from crisis and poverty to 
stability and self-sufficiency, thereby promoting viable civil societies.
The deadline for submissions is May 21, 2007. The 
call for papers (CFP) is available online. Past 
issues of Critical Half are also available.


June 2007

= Training programme: Building capacity for 
rights - Democracy and Development in Africa, June 2007
   http://www.wougnet.org/Events/projectnews07.html#BCR_DDA

The Centre for Applied Legal Studies (CALS) at 
the University of the Witwatersrand, together 
with the Royal Tropical Institute (KIT) of the 
Netherlands will co-host an exciting and 
innovative course on Development and Human 
Rights. This course, intended for people 
concerned with social change in Africa, aims to 
build capacity for advancing rights within 
development and activist organizations. It will 
assist researchers, advocates, trainers and 
programme officers from civil society and state 
institutions to develop practical approaches to 
using rights advocacy and development programmes. There are three modules:
- Module one of the course explores key concepts 
and a framework for a rights approach to advocacy and development programming.
- Module two applies the framework to specific 
rights areas: socio-economic rights, reproductive 
and sexual rights, political and civil rights.
- Module three focuses on building skills for the 
practical application of a rights approach in 
advocacy work and development programmes.



July 2007

= Mango Finance training in Kampala, Uganda, July 2007
   http://www.wougnet.org/Events/projectnews07.html#MFT07
Mango will to be returning to Kampala, Uganda to 
deliver two of their most popular financial 
management training events, specially written for NGO field staff:
- FM1: Practical Financial Management for NGOs: 
Getting the Basics Right, 2 to 6 July 2007.
- FM2: Managing for Financial Sustainability ­ 
Strategic Financial Management for NGOs, 9 to 11 July 2007
No previous financial management training or 
experience is required to benefit from these 
courses and as previous participants attest: 
Mango training really does take the fear out of 
finance! Full details of the training including 
course outlines are available from Mango?s 
website or on request from training@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
The deadline for bookings on these events is 18 June 2007.


September 2007


= Web2ForDev International Conference - 
Participatory Web for Development, Rome, Italy, 25-27 September 2007
   http://www.wougnet.org/Events/projectnews07.html#Web2Dev

Web2ForDev 2007 is the first conference devoted 
to exploring the ways in which international 
development stakeholders can take advantage of 
the technical and organizational opportunities 
provided by Web 2.0 methods, approaches and 
applications. It is a joint venture by CTA, FAO, 
IICD, GTZ, ACP Secretariat, Université Cheikh 
Anta DIOP, University of British Columbia 
Okanagan, Euforic, DGroups, CGIAR and IFAD.
The Web2ForDev conference will promote the 
adoption and dissemination of appropriate, 
low-cost and replicable Internet-based 
applications by actors in agriculture, rural 
development, and natural resource management. It 
aims to inspire participants to use and develop 
their own information management and 
communication systems based on these 
applications. The conference targets agriculture, 
rural development, and natural resource 
management stakeholders, particularly those from 
developing countries, experienced with or 
interested in the potential of Web 2.0, including 
technology intermediaries, policy makers, 
information and communication specialists, 
software developers, application and system 
providers and information service providers. 
Participants are expected to have experience and 
understanding of information and communication 
technologies (ICTs) and to be in a position to 
understand, adopt and disseminate the showcased applications and approaches.
A call for proposals has also been announced with 
a submission deadline of 30 April 2007. Accepted 
presenters or panelists from developing countries 
may apply for sponsorship to attend the Conference.


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TechTip
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= Email Bombing and Spamming

Email bombing is characterized by abusers 
repeatedly sending an email message to a 
particular address at a specific victim site. In 
many instances, the messages will be large and 
constructed from meaningless data in an effort to 
consume additional system and network resources. 
Multiple accounts at the target site may be 
abused, increasing the denial of service impact.
Email spamming is a variant of bombing; it refers 
to sending email to hundreds or thousands of 
users (or to lists that expand to that many 
users). Email spamming can be made worse if 
recipients reply to the email, causing all the 
original addressees to receive the reply. It may 
also occur innocently, as a result of sending a 
message to mailing lists and not realizing that 
the list explodes to thousands of users.
a) Technical Issues

- Email spamming is almost impossible to prevent 
because a user with a valid email address can 
spam any other valid email address, newsgroup, or bulletin-board service.
- When large amounts of email are directed to or 
through a single site, the site may suffer a 
denial of service through loss of network 
connectivity, system crashes, or failure of a 
service because of overloading network 
connections, using all available system resources, or filling the hard disk.

b) Prevention

Unfortunately, at this time, there is no way to 
prevent email bombing or spamming (other than 
disconnecting from the Internet), and it is 
impossible to predict the origin of the next 
attack. However there are preventive measure you can apply.
1. Develop in-house tools to help you recognize 
and respond to the email bombing/spamming and so 
minimize the impact of such activity. The tools 
should increase the logging capabilities as well 
as check for and alert you to incoming/outgoing 
messages that originate from the same user or 
same site in a very short span of time. Once you 
identify the activity, you can use other in-house 
tools to discard the messages from the offending users or sites.
2. If your site uses a small number of email 
servers, you may want to configure your firewall 
to ensure that SMTP connections from outside your 
firewall can be made only to your central email 
hubs and to none of your other systems. Although 
this will not prevent an attack, it minimizes the 
number of machines available to an intruder for 
an SMTP-based attack (whether that attack is a 
email spam or an attempt to break into a host). 
It also means that should you wish to control 
incoming SMTP in a particular way (through 
filtering or another means), you have only a 
small number of systems--the main email hub and 
any backup email hubs--to configure. More 
information on filtering is available from
3. Consider configuring your mail handling 
system(s) to deliver email into file systems that 
have per-user quotas enabled. Doing this can 
minimize the impact of an email bombing attack by 
limiting the damage to only the targeted accounts and not the entire system.
4. Educate your users to inform you about email bombing and spamming.

5. Do not propagate the problem by forwarding (or replying to) spammed email.


This Tech Tip was compiled by the WOUGNET 
Technical Support Team. Please note that the 
information above is a little technical and may 
be of more use to the technical staff or system 
administrators in your organisation, however we 
have tried to simplify it as much as possible for 
the benefit of the ordinary user too. For more 
details, please visit http://www.cert.org/tech_tips/email_bombing_spamming.html
For more information or for assistance in 
managing your computer, contact techsupport@xxxxxxxxxxx


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WOUGNET News
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= WOUGNET launches Women?s ICT-based Enterprises 
Guide and CD: ?A Guide to Promote, Initiate and 
Improve Women?s ICT Based Enterprises in Uganda?
In February 2006, WOUGNET hosted the ?More and 
Better Women?s ICT-based Enterprises Workshop in 
Uganda? which is one element of the 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. 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.
Subsequently, WOUGNET has produced a localized 
WIE Guide and CD. The objective is to harness 
ICTs for socio-economic development. WIEs can 
provide women with immediate benefits such as 
jobs, income, skills empowerment etc. The WIE 
guide and CD are a tool to enable understanding 
of how this happens. Both are available at the WOUGNET Secretariat.
The guide at a cost of 7,000/= is in three 
languages: English, Luganda and Luo. The CD, at a 
cost of 10,000/= contains the WIE workshop report 
and photos, keynote speech by Dr. Margaret Kigozi 
- Executive Director of Uganda Investment 
Authority (UIA), the localized support guides and 
radio scripts in English, Luganda and Luo, as well as free software.
The WIE project in Uganda is supported by the 
Institute for Development Policy and Management 
at the University of Manchester with funding from 
the UK Department for International Development (DFID).
For more information about the WIE project and/or 
to obtain copies of the guide or CD, please contact the WOUGNET Secretariat at:
Women of Uganda Network - WOUGNET
Plot 53 Kira Road, Kamwokya
Tel: 041 4532035
Fax: 041 4530474
Email: info@xxxxxxxxxxx
Web: http://www.wougnet.org/Projects/wieug.html



= National Meeting on Networking and Collaboration among Rural Women?s Networks
   http://www.wougnet.org/Projects/wougnetprojects.html#RWN
From the 23rd to 24th February 2007, WOUGNET 
hosted a national meeting on Networking and 
Collaboration among Rural Women?s Networks: 
Sustainability of CTA/Dimitra Networks and Impact 
of HIV/AIDS at Ranch on the Lake, Kigo, Uganda.
This was a follow up activity to a six-month 
online discussion forum that was held from 
January to June 2006, under the theme 
?Strengthening Rural women Networks with regards 
to Information and Communication, and to combat 
HIV/AIDS in Rural areas?. One of the 
recommendations from this discussion was that in 
future related discussions; more rural women 
networks (including those without internet 
access) meet face-to-face to discuss their views 
on the theme. The outcome of such face-to-face 
meetings would then be shared with other 
networks, through online discussion fora, in 
order to enrich and include diverse experiences.
The Uganda National meeting was supported by 
Technical Center for Agricultural and Rural 
Cooperation (CTA). The objectives of this meeting included:
-          To strengthen rural women networks and 
build capacity in information sharing and networking.
-          To exchange experience and knowledge 
on the impact of HIV/AIDS in rural areas.
-          To analyze the effects of HIV/AIDS on 
food security and rural community life.
-          To define common activities that could 
reinforce the various organizations and networks.
For further information, contact WOUGNET at Plot 
53 Kira Road, Kamwokya, Tel: 041 4532035, Fax: 
041 4530474, E-mail: info@xxxxxxxxxxxx A copy of 
the report is also available online at:
http://www.wougnet.org/Projects/wougnetprojects.html#RWN




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