Source: New Vison
Over 170 women groups have benefited from the Community Driven Development (CDD) programmes of Kampala Capital City Authority, (KCCA) the executive director, Jennifer Musisi, has said.
The groups in all the five urban divisions of Kampala are mainly women groups which secure funding from the authority under the CDD to improve their businesses. KCCA earmarked over sh800m for the programme.
Source: New Vision
The high dropout rate among primary school going girls needs urgent intervention, women activist have demanded. The activists are also concerned about the soaring numbers of women who die daily in pregnancy-related complications in the country.
The activists raised the concerns in a meeting held in Kampala.
Source: Daily Trust
Otunba Basirat Nahibi is the Founder /President of Women Advancement for Economic and Leadership Empowerment in Africa (WAELE/ARCEFA), an organization in 46 African countries and all states of the federation including the FCT. In this interview, she speaks on women's political participation, and mentoring among others. Excerpts.
AFRICA: New Study Finds Little Progress in Meeting Demand for Contraception in the Poorest Countries
Source: Guttmacher Institute
A new study by the Guttmacher Institute finds that within the developing world, the poorest countries are lagging far behind higher-income developing countries in meeting the demand for modern contraception. Between 2003 and 2012, the total number of women wanting to avoid pregnancy and in need of contraception increased from 716 million to 867 million, with growth concentrated among women in the 69 poorest countries where modern method use was already very low.
Source: The Observer
A women's fish farming project that emphasises conserving biodiversity on Lake Victoria, has been hailed by the UN Development Programme Administrator, Helen Clark.
The project, in Kigungu village in Entebbe, incorporates waste disposal and water pollution and minimizes loss of biodiversity. Jane Nakitto, the general secretary of the 30-member group, says before they started fish farming, they were mining sand from the lake and cutting down trees.
Source: Namibia Economist
The National Art Gallery in partnership with Victims 2 Survivors, UNAIDS and UNDP will host a national exhibition titled "Unite to end Gender-based Violence (GBV)" from 28 June to 02 August at the gallery's premises in Windhoek.
The exhibition seeks to raise public awareness on the severity of gender violence and ignite action to prevent and end all forms of gender violence. In Namibia, violence is a serious issue with women being disproportionately affected.
Yesterday was the deadline for nominations for Executive Director of UN Women. The candidates will succeed the organization’s first head, Michele Bachelet, who resigned suddenly in March to return home and stand for election to Chile’s presidency. At least six candidates are rumored to be under consideration.
The First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone, Mrs. Sia Nyama Koroma, has said in Freetown that access to energy is an integral instrument in the empowerment of women in the Mano River Union and Africa as a whole.
Speech by Lakshmi Puri, UN Women Acting Executive Director, during an interactive panel discussion on “Sharing Best Practices and Lessons Learned for Prevention and Prosecution in the Implementation of the Global Plan of Action” at the High-level Meeting of the General Assembly on the United Nations Appraisal of the Global Plan of Action to Combat Trafficking in Persons on 13 May 2013 at the General Assembly in New York.
Source: UN WOMEN
Saran Keïta Diakité is a lawyer in Mali and President of the Malian branch of the NGO Working Group on Women Peace and Security (Réseau Paix et Sécurité des Femmes de l’Espace CEDEAO). As the Donor Conference on Mali starts in Brussels, in her own words she speaks about the atrocities occurring in her country,
Source: New Dawn
Authorities of the Liberia National Police (LNP) have strongly blasted junior officer Rufus Kortee assigned in Saniquillie, Nimba County, for speaking with the media over a reported rape matter linking three personnel of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU).
The Maasai tribe of Kenya and Tanzania has long been a beacon of traditional culture to many Africans – and for Westerners on safari through Maasai Mara, Samburu or Amboseli, a familiar face.
It was an ambitious plan to circumcise the majority of men in Swaziland, an effort to reduce the risk of HIV transmission in a country with the world's highest HIV prevalence. How could it have gone wrong?
Source: New Dawn
Three officers of the Emergency Response Unit (ERU) of the Liberia National Police have reportedly ganged raped a 23-year-old woman in Yekepa, Nimba County.
The ERU officers had earlier offered the victim a lift in their car, but while on the Yekepa-Sanniquellie highway, they stopped and held the victim at gunpoint before raping her, the Ministry of Gender Child Welfare Office in Nimba has reported.
Source: Cameroon Tribune
Barely 48 hours after her consecration as Miss Beach 2013, Valery Kesse Ayem has embarked on field work. Thus on Tuesday May 14, the 19-year-old beauty queen made a stopover at the Douala based office of the Cameroon News and Publishing Corporation (SOPECAM). After a brief presentation of the different services, she was received in audience by the Littoral Regional Director, Alain Tchakounté.
Source: Vanguard
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has trained no fewer than 50 female student-journalists in 11 tertiary institutions in the South-West on investigative journalism.
Source: The Herald
There is no doubt that the first quarter of the year can best be described as historic and one of the few momentous occasions where both men and women in support of gender parity have witnessed many landmark decisions taking place in a short period of time to address discrepancies in
gender issues.
Source: The Chronicle
Thousands of Women, mostly from the Christian community, last Saturday thronged the Golden Jubilee Park in Kumasi in search of Mr. and Mrs. Right. The few men present were also desperately looking for women as lifelong partners.
Source: The Chronicle
Over 120 women, drawn from various women's groups, movements and associations in Bolgatanga, have advocated the immediate passage of the Affirmative Action Bill into law.
The proposed Affirmative Action Bill final draft, which was validated in April this year in Koforidua, if passed into law, would ensure the Ghanaian government keeps to its promise of a 40% quota of representation for women in key decision-making positions, using the affirmative action directive.
Source: Daily Observer
The Methodist Women's Federation Gambia will be hosting the West Africa Area Seminar of the World Federation of Methodist and Uniting Church Women, from the 20th to 24th May 2013. The seminar will host over 350 women delegates from more than 8 countries under the theme, "Women and food security".