“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

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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

2. 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.

3. 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

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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.
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more:
http://mgafrica.com/article/2015-­‐03-­‐19-­‐decentralisation-­‐was-­‐supposed-­‐to-­‐make-­‐people-­‐fat-­‐and-­‐happy-­‐so-­‐why-­‐are-­‐we-­‐so-­‐
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