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How Mayaabo’s Story is Helping Promote Women’s Participation in Elections

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CEWIGO’s Community Gender Advocacy Groups transforming Gender Stereotypes to promote women’s participation in the 2021 Elections in Uganda: Mr. Mayaabo Eliasaf’s story Mr. Mayaabo Eliasaf , is a resident of Kakoma ward, Kakiika division in Mbarara city. For the past 20 years, he has served as the LC II Chairperson of Kakoma ward; a post …

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CEWIGO Takes the Discourse On Enhancing Women’s Participation In Politics To The Communities

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“For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and elect but to be elected”, Michelle Bachelet – former President of Chile. Uganda still faces inequitable participation of women in political leadership and decision making processes. According to a UNDP Report published in 2011, the Government …

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Women’s Leadership and Achievement of Development Targets

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Unequal participation in politics and decision making processes could be one of the reasons why Uganda may not attain the middle income status by 2020 Background Uganda is a party to various international, regional and sub-regional legal frameworks on women’s participation in leadership and decision making. Key among these include the Universal Declaration of Human …

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Why the Fight Against FGM in Sebei should be Strengthened

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Women too should be protected against FGM Despite the existence of the Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation Act (2010), both women and girls in the whole of Sebei sub region are being subjected to FGM. The continued practice is being attributed to the lack of protection from stigma and discrimination of women and girls that have not undergone …

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The Linkage Between Women’s Leadership and Sustainable Development

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The linkage between Women’s Leadership and Sustainable Development Leadership is the art of motivating an individual or group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. For women, being active in the process of leadership is especially important, as women’s life experiences, needs, issues and priorities are not the same as men’s. According to Uganda …

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National Dialogue on Ending Gender Based Violence in Uganda

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CEWIGO organized a National Dialogue that targeted Women in Uniform under the theme: “The role of Women in Uniform in prevention and response to Gender Based Violence (GBV)”. The event was held on 7th December 2018 at Imperial Royale Hotel in line with the National Theme of the 16 days of activism against GBV (End …

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“Women’s sustainable engagement in political leadership”

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In Uganda, women’s participation in politics is no longer in contention. Their  participation  in politics has  been high on the agenda of  the state and this  has scaled  up their leadership abilities on the social, political and  economic platforms of  social change. A lot of campaigns have been staged to lobby for key social needs and concerns …

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