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WOUGNET Update Newsletter - September 2001
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WHAT'S NEW
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1. WOMEN ORGANISATIONS IN UGANDA

= Lungujja Women's Association (L.W.A)
Mission: To empower women through soliciting funds from members or
other sources and building our businesses for self-sustenance and
independence.
Lungujja Women's Association is a KITE grant receipient and
are getting a computer to enable them manage their accounts
electronically, research business strategies online, facilitate
their networking with other women organisations, and enable them
to provide training in the use of computer technology.
(http://www.wougnet.org/wo_dir.html#L.W.A)

= The Mifumi Project
Mission:The Mifumi Project is a registered NGO whose objectives
are to support the community through development projects
including education, healthcare promotion and income generating
schemes in Mifumi, in Eastern Uganda. Our goal is to help the
people of Mifumi to help themselves.
(http://www.wougnet.org/wo_dir.html#Mifumi)

2. WOMEN & AGRICULTURE

= Gender Disaggregated Data Capacity Building Workshop
In March 2001, a capacity building, training workshop was
implemented by Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industries and
Forestry (MAAIF) Planning Department funded by FAO under the
programme of Integrated Support to Sustainable Development and
Food Security (IP). This historic workshop generated much
consciousness on gender disaggregated data (GDD) by transforming
the quality of information gathering and processing. The
dynamics of gender in relation to statistical information, the
institution of the family in terms of division of labour,
resource allocation among men and women, boys and girls, has
gained particular significance.
(http://www.wougnet.org/agriculture.html#GDD_CBW)

3. LINKS AND RESOURCES

a) ICT-related Organisations

= Network Startup Resource Center
The Network Startup Resource Center (NSRC), a non-profit
organization, has been involved for many years with the design
and deployment of networking technology in various projects
throughout Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the
Middle East, and Oceania.
(http://www.wougnet.org/links.html#NSRC)

b) Development Links and Resources

= Learning and Development Kenya
Learning and Development Kenya (LDK) is a national
non-governmental, non-profit, non-sectarian development
organization founded in June 1998. It implements its programmes
together with other NGOs and Government ministries concerned
with alleviation of extreme poverty, gender equality and
technology integration.
(http://www.wougnet.org/Links/devlinks.html#LDK)

c) Health Links and Resources

= ISIS Foundation
ISIS Foundation works with NGOs in Uganda and Nepal to assist
mothers and children, largely in primary health care and
education. In Uganda, the initial proposal is to fund a portion
of the Kiwoko Hospital community based health care ("CBHC")
programme, Luwero District.
(http://www.wougnet.org/Links/healthlinks.html#ISIS)

d) Human Rights Links and Resources

= Raising Voices
Based in Kampala, Uganda, Raising Voices is a non-profit,
international organization that works in partnership with local
organizations in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania to prevent violence
against women and children. Their website includes information
on programmatic tools developed by Raising Voices to
strengthen violence prevention efforts at the grassroots and
current efforts underway within the Region.
(http://www.wougnet.org/links.html#RVOICES)

e) General Resources

= Africa Expo
We are a non-profit corporation devoted to funding several
charities in Africa and in the United States so that ALL of the
profits will go to these charities. Some are medical while others
are educational.
Africa-Expo was created for the purpose of providing a
showplace for the arts, culture, handicrafts, products and
technology of the fifty-five nations of Africa in order to
bring wider communication, education, trade and understanding
between our two continents while raising funds for our African
and African-American charities. The dates for the Africa Expo
are December 17-23, 2002.
(http://www.wougnet.org/links.html#AEXPO)

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EVENTS & NEWS
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July 2001
= Lungujja Women's Association (L.W.A) hosts two Norwegian students
In June 2001, Hege Elisabeth Sotberg and Ingrid Spjeldnæs
posted a message on WOUGNET seeking to participate in a
development project directed towards women in Kampala. This
posting was followed by an invitation from the Lungujja Women's
Association to participate in their projects, and in July 2001,
the two students arrived in Kampala for a 10-week visit.
(http://www.wougnet.org/projectnews.html#LWA_Norway)

August 2001
= On August 23rd, 2001, Isis-WICCE launched two research reports on
Women and War. "Women's Experiences of Armed Conflict Situations
in Uganda: The case of Gulu District 1986-1999" and "Medical
Interventional Study of War Affected Gulu District, Uganda" are
essentially two parts of the same report. The reports are
available from Isis WICCE for US$5 each, and will be online by
September 2001. Abstracts of the two reports are available from:
http://www.wougnet.org/projectnews.html#WomenWar

November 2001
= Visiting Scholarships at the Centre for African Studies
The Harry Oppenheimer Institute for African Studies funds an
annual scholarship for Scholars who are working from within
the African Continent beyond South Africa's boarders in the broad
area of African Studies. Obtain conditions of the award and
application guidelines from:
http://www.wougnet.org/projectnews.html#CAS_guide

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