Forum for Women in Democracy Uganda

  MP Rosemary Nyakikongoro (R) consults fellow legislators, NamukwayaBugembe (C) and Evelyn Kabule (L) recently. Women legislators have asked government to allocate more resources to the districts to finance gender activities as a way of checking gender inequalities. PHOTO BY GEOFFREY SSERUYANGE , Daily Monitor Women legislators under their umbrella association, the Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (UWOPA), and the Forum for Women in Democracy (FOWODE), have appealed to government to allocate more resources to districts to finance women activities as a way of checking gender inequalities. The legislators, during a tour of Lyantonde District, supported by FOWODE in August 2012,  to ascertain how gender mainstreaming activities are being financed at the district and municipality, noted that since the districts cannot generate enough revenue, government should allocate more resources to ensure that gender activities are prioritised. SUMMARY: THE APPEAL: Women legis

Village budget club members in Kisiita Sub County in Kibaale stopped illegal payments made at Kisiita Health Center III for antenatal cards, child immunization cards and family planning services. The VBC member below displaying the child health cards which the mothers had bought . In September 2012, Kisiita Village budget club members a grassroots community group mobilized by FOWODE to monitor service delivery for improved gender accountability monitored Kisiita Health Centre III to examine the quality of service delivery. Being an immunization day, the center was busy; however they met the health center personnel and also held discussions with patients to review their levels of satisfaction with the services provided at this Health Center. During these interactions the club members learnt that women in this community always pay a fee to acquire child immunization cards, antenatal cards and family planning services. In fact on this very day, many mothers had been turned away a