Proposals Uganda from March, 2013
Uganda: Making Economic Policies Benefit Women and Youth
the project titled “making economic policies benefit women and youths” will train and empower women and youths of agali sub counties lira district, n.uganda to engage, channel, influence, and advocate economic policies makers pay attention to the problems or issues regarding their economic plight; where policies designed should benefits the women and youth; economically and then access to social services through internet communications outlets.
Uganda: Voices of War Affected Youth in Gulu
The project will conduct video-photography training in 3 selected urban poor (UP) communities in Gulu district-Northern Uganda. The Youths trained by citizen media practitioners will document their condition and struggle. Striking photos and videos will be used in online campaigns and exhibits in the communities and supportive institutions. This is to tell the untold stories of the more than one decade of war in Northern Uganda, showing resilience.
Uganda: Using ICT to Monitor Service Delivery
The project will train 30 rural monitors and 10 journalists from the highly mountainous areas of Bundibugyo district which have limited accessibility to government services on how to use the two FM radio stations as a hub to converge information from mobile phone technologies and online social media tools to monitor service delivery and demand accountability. Frontline sms technologies will be installed on FM radio stations and 2 blogs created.
Uganda: Opening Voices of Lugeye Rural Women
The project will provide a unique opportunity for rural women in Lugeye to be trained in journalism and photography to empower them collect data about issues of developmental importance to be documented and be shared with other women in the world. This will open voices of women in Lugeye community to be aired out and their felt needs brought to the information of women in other areas to be advised on how to solve them.
Uganda: Right To Speak Ik
The Right to Speak Ik will mobilize, build capacity and create awareness for a handful of remaining Ik speakers in Uganda’s remotest region of Karamoja to use Digital technologies particularly mobile phones, digital cameras and micro blogs to not only document and preserve important ancestral knowledge and cultural wealth found in the endangered IK language but also encourage the next generation of speakers.
