Gender Action is working with the National Association for Women's Action in Development (NAWAD), to train Ugandan civil society organizations in international financial institution (IFI) gender analysis and advocacy. The World Bank (WB) and African Development Bank (AfDB) are the largest publicly-funded donors to low-income countries. The banks' current health-related investments in Uganda ignore critical gender issues and have the potential to harm the health and livelihoods of women and girls
Despite commitments to promote gender equality and women's empowerment, WB and AfDB investments have a disproportionately negative impact on women and girls, and undermine women and girls' human rights. WB/AfDB projects exacerbate poverty and gender inequality by failing to engage women and girls in project design and implementation, ignoring barriers to accessing reproductive health and HIV services and investing in unsustainable health system interventions that are inaccessible to to the poor.
This project will empower NAWAD to develop and execute effective advocacy and community awareness campaigns on WB/AfDB investments in Uganda, and train fellow community-based leaders in gender analysis and advocacy.
This project will enable NAWAD to raise community awareness and establish a civil society network to hold the WB and AfDB accountable for investments that harm the health and livelihood of women and girls in Uganda, and to advocate for investments that promote women's rights, health and empowerment.
"Thank you [Gender Action] for all your hard work. You have capacitated us to do research and gender analysis, and we will empower other communities to do the same."
- Patience Nyangoma, Executive Director of NAWAD
Total Funding Received to Date: $5,020
This project is now in implementation and no longer available for funding. Received funds will be used to accomplish concrete objectives as indicated in the project's "Activities" section. Updates will be posted under the "Project Report" tab as they become available.
Donors' contributions and pledges to this project totaled $5,020 . The original project funding goal was $50,000.
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
Combined with other sources of funding, this project raised enough money to fund the outlined activities and is no longer accepting donations.
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