fowode weekly newsletter march week 3
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Uganda@50
9th March to 14th March 2015
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CSW SIDE EVENT ROLE OF WOMEN LEADERS IN THE POST 2015 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS AGENDA.
• Citizens holding Government Officials accountable WHERE ARE WE COMING FROM, WHERE ARE WE GOING: THE ROLE OF WOMEN LEADERS IN THE POST 2015 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS AGENDA.
• Citizens holding government officials accountable
Fowode is commined to continue empowering women and men so that they can influence th e communities in which they live in
“You are the women of the world you gathered in Beijing
with passion determination and vision.
You insisted on a journey,
a journey that you made arrive to change because you dared to dream”
Poem by Nyaradzai
Over 70 women activists, feminists human rights, defenders, philanthropists and actors on gender joined the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE) and UN Women-‐ Uganda section at the Armenian Centre in the V hall on 12th March 2015 in New York to deliberate on the 20 year Beijing Journey and to peep into the future of post 2015 Sustainable development Goals.
The conversations were steered by reknown Nyadzai Ngumbodzivile and Ann Kate a UN Women Country Representative in Tanzania with moderation of Ms Patricia Munabi the Executive Director of the Forum for Women in Democracy .
The session was intended to reflect on the Women’s journey since 1994 of Beijing Action Plan, the Millennium summit and discuss gains, shortfalls and what could have been done better. It was also to
The Parallel session highlighted that there is need to have more women in core sectors and core decision making positions that are ready to push the boundaries so as to achieve transformation of and for women. The struggle to increase the numbers of women in decision making beyond politics must be intensified, a lot of focus has been on politics and women are in low ranking positions in other sectors which needs to be checked.
The conversation ended into encouraging women within political parties need to position themselves and be seen as drivers of change internally and externally; Legislatures need to be used as platforms to hold leaders accountable to the commitments at the global level such as Beijing declaration and now the sustainable development goals and economic empowerment is a critical to transformation, there must be a mechanism of ensuring empowerment of women economically and politically.
The drivers will be continued targeting of young people as part of building the movement for change; Maintaining a keen eye on indicators for implementation of the SDGs if the agenda is to deliver transformation for women; Holding leaders accountable to the commitments made to the post2015 development agenda and especially with the focus on the means of implementation and strong, committed, focused, capacitated national machineries to deliver on the sustainable development.
The role of the UN and other development partners in delivering a transformative post 2015 development Agenda has to be shaped around the need to invest more in Women’s rights interventions that are addressing structural barriers and empowering and capacitating women politically and economically and help address the violence’s conflict social imbalances and discrimination
WHERE ARE WE COMING FROM, WHERE ARE WE GOING: THE ROLE OF WOMEN LEADERS IN THE POST 2015 SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTAL GOALS AGENDA.
Below is a pictorial of FOWODE Village Budget Club activities in Rukungiri District
Above: VBC members of OMURITAANO community in Rukungiri District during an interface meeting
Citizens holding Government Officials accountable
Besigye in talks with Amama Mbabazi side
Dr Kizza Besigye has held talks with people closely associated with former premier Amama Mbabazi to discuss the country’s political direction ahead of the presidential and general elections next year. Besigye, the founding president of Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), said he had not personally met Mr Mbabazi but confirmed meeting people who work with the sacked prime minister. However, he declined to disclose details of their discussions.
See more: http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Besigye-in-talks-with-Amama-Mbabazi-side/-/688334/2660514/-/gtv0de/-/index.html
Don’t rush for little gifts, queen warns young girls
Bugwere Queen (Itulula) Sarah Weyabire has warned young girls to avoid early sex in order to safeguard their future.Ms Weyabire, who is the wife of the Bugwere cultural leader (Ikumbania), John Weyabire, made the remark this week while addressing more than 100 young girls at her residence about the danger of early involvement in sex. “You need not hurry for sex because there are consequences. Please kindly lock your private parts until the right time. You need to have confidence and self-esteem and make choices to realise your dream. Peer pressure lures girls into sex with older men,” said the Itulula.
See more: http://www.monitor.co.ug/News/National/Don-t-rush-for-little-gifts--queen-warns-young-girls/-/688334/2660650/-/137i6sqz/-/index.html
Museveni politics of deception laundered clean by elections
On Wednesday The Observer published a detailed, but by no means exhaustive, list of President Museveni’s election pledges over the last three election cycles.Only a few have materialized. Whereas it is possible to genuinely fail to honour pledges, many unfulfilled promises are borne of deceptive politics, a hallmark of Museveni’s three-decade rule. The biggest lie was in the 2001 manifesto, in which the president said he was seeking reelection for his last term in office, to complete the process of professionalizing the army and end the rebellion in the north. But the deception did not begin in 2001; it started in earnest in 1986, with a phantom promise of fundamental change that has increasingly become fundamental decay and stagnation. See more: http://observer.ug/viewpoint/36889-museveni-politics-of-deception-laundered-clean-by-elections
People ask for power, its decentralised to them, but they remain angry and unhappy: An African paradox
To explain what may be going on, we need to go back to a few weeks ago, to a story on the predictions that US spies got right about Africa, based on a report published in 2000 and projecting up to 2015. One of those that was right on the money was that federalism, or decentralisation, would be an increasingly salient feature of African politics. See more: http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-‐03-‐19-‐decentralisation-‐was-‐supposed-‐to-‐make-‐people-‐fat-‐and-‐happy-‐so-‐why-‐are-‐we-‐so-‐miserable#.VQwkEuAZSYA.twitter
Gender and Governance News that made headlines this week
Governance and Gender News Making Headlines
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