Category: grantees
Uganda MEMPROW Girls Network (UMGN)
Uganda MEMPROW Girls Network (UMGN)
$1,000 to raise awareness among young people on how to prevent violence against women during the MEMPROW girl’s camp and to share experiences of sexual and gender based violence faced by girls and young women in and out of school.
Integrated Women and Children’s Development Activities (IWCDA)
Integrated Women and Children’s Development Activities (IWCDA)
1,000 to hold two inter-district conferences for 42 stakeholders drawn from nine districts of Busoga Region (Iganga, Jinja, Kaliro, Bugiri, Namutumba, Kamuli, Mayuge, Buyenda and Busia).
Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE)
Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE)
$15,000 to host the 5th Uganda Feminist Forum from the 29th of May to the 1st of June 2012 in Jinja, Uganda.
Centre for Human Dignity and Development
Centre for Human Dignity and Development
$1,000 to organize sensitization activities for teenage mothers and their spouses on issues of sexual rights and gender based violence.
Better Health Action Group Uganda (Better HAG Uganda)
Better Health Action Group Uganda (Better HAG Uganda)
$25,000 to support the implementation of a project geared towards responding to a range of human rights violations against women and girls in the selected 8 counties of Magale, Bumbo, Bupoto, Bumwoni, Bwabwala, Bukokho, Bututu and Tsekululu in Bubulo east constituency, Mbale-Manafwa district in Eastern Uganda.
Action for Rural Women’s Empowerment (ARUWE)
Action for Rural Women’s Empowerment (ARUWE)
$7,000 to promote the use of modern contraceptives as protect against STIs and unwanted pregnancies. This will be done through orienting and expanding networks of village health teams and youth peer educators to deliver basic reproductive health knowledge at the community level.
Women’s Organization Network for Human Rights Advocacy (WONETHA)
Women’s Organization Network for Human Rights Advocacy (WONETHA)
$20,000 to provide home based care visits to bed ridden sex workers who are HIV positive and provide them with nutrition support to enhance their treatment.
Slum Women’s Initiative for Development (SWID)
Slum Women’s Initiative for Development (SWID)
$1,000 to increase the capacity of the SWID drama group to reach 5 more sub-counties in the Jinja district to sensitize and educate those communities on issues pertaining to HIV/AIDS prevention and HIV stigma reduction.
National Community of Women Living with HIV&AIDS in Uganda (NACWOLA) Kasese District Branch
National Community of Women Living with HIV&AIDS in Uganda (NACWOLA) Kasese District Branch
$20,000 to train women leaders, orphans and vulnerable children from communities with a high prevalence of HIV&AIDS in the sub counties of Kitholu, Kisinga and Bugoye in Kasese district.
Muzigiti Rural Women Development Association
Muzigiti Rural Women Development Association
$10,000 to educate the community on HIV prevention activities especially aimed at the community taking HIV preventative steps and supporting people living with HIV&AIDS and Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC).