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Uganda Women Parliamentary Association Annual Report 2012 UGANDA WOMEN IC EMPOW OM ERM ON E C NT PARLIAMENTARYE ASSOCIATIONF D N O A R A E L C L A E U P G , A E .................................. D C A I N T S S U J L A .................................. I C O S eport 2012 Annual R Table of Contents FOREWORD ................................................................................................................................................................... 1 1.0 BACKGROUND ......................................................................................................................................................... 2 2.0 ENACTMENT OF LAWS ............................................................................................................................................. 4 3.0 AMENDMENT OF LAWS ........................................................................................................................................... 5 4.0 OVERSIGHT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF GENDER LAWS ............................................................................................ 5 5.0 OVERSIGHT ON POLICIES AND BUDGET PROCESS .................................................................................................. 7 6.0 CAPACITY BUILDING AND ENHANCING OF WOMEN AND INVOLVEMENT IN GENDER LAWS .................................9 7.0 NETWORKING WITH CSO TO HARMONISE STRATEGIES ........................................................................................ 10 8.0 MEDIA BRIEFINGS, CONSULTATIONS AND CAMPAIGNS ......................................................................................... 13 9.0 INSTITUTIONAL STRENGTHENING ......................................................................................................................... 14 10.0 CHALLENGES ........................................................................................................................................................ 16 11.0 CONCLUSION ....................................................................................................................................................... 16 LIST OF DONORS .......................................................................................................................................................... 18 EXECUTIVE MEMBERS IN THE 9TH PARLIAMENT (2011-2013) .................................................................................... 19 NOMIC E ECO MPO D WE AN R E M C E A N E T P F , O E R C I A T L S .. L ....... U ...... U J ..... .... G ....... L ... A A D I A C .................................. N O S UWOPA 2012 Annual Report S FOREWORD I salute you all, Members of Parliament, partners and Lastly, let me thank Parliamentary Development and donors. Coordination Office, Democratic Governance Facility, Irish Aid, Plan Uganda, GEZA/Austrian Development On behalf of the UWOPA executive and secretariat, I Cooperation, and British High Commission for their congratulate all Members of Parliament for your collective continued support that has kept UWOPA afloat as well as contribution towards advancement of the women’s cause functional. in the year 2012. I would like to recognise the efforts of Ministry of Gender I would like to take this opportunity to thank all the Labour and Social Development, Center for Domestic members of UWOPA, Parliamentary Forums, CSOs, Violence Prevention, Forum for Women in Democracy, donors and well-wishers for your meaningful partnerships Ministry of Internal Affairs, for their continued fight in and great commitment you showcased in order to make prevention of gender based violation and sexual violence. UWOPA sparkle. The 2012 report highlights UWOPA’s activities, Secondly, allow me to introduce the annual report 2012. achievements, best practices, lessons learnt, challenges, Through the support received from our cherished donors, and recommen dations. However com-paratively, and we managed to influence legislation, enhanced capacity with your support, we seek to make UWOPA a center of of women MPs to enrich and strengthen livelihoods of Advocacy, Empowerment and the Influence of women, Ugandans in their constituents. increasingly being recognized locally, regional and internationally. 2012 was again an eventful year with greater advocacy creating a lot of impact on the national level. During the We regret the demise of Hon Cerinah Nebanda (RIP), and course of the year, UWOPA streamlined its Governance Ms Eunice Kisembo (Ministry of Internal Affairs). May Structure by recruiting new staff to ensure effective their souls and those of other Fallen Ugandans rest in program implementation, as well as strengthening the Eternal Peace Forum in to a formidable force for high quality service delivery and improving the resource base through lobbying and mobilization. Hon. Betty Amongi CHAIRPERSON page| 1 NOMIC E ECO MPO D WE AN R E M C E A N E T P F , O E R C I A T L S .. L ....... U ...... U J ..... .... G ....... L ... A A D I A C .................................. N O S UWOPA 2012 Annual Report S 1.0 BACKGROUND The Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (UWOPA) • To build and strengthen the capacity of UWOPA as is a registered and recognized parliamentary caucus an institution and ensure efficient and effective comprising all women members of parliament but also execution of its mandate and the common women’s open to former women members of parliament and the legislative Agenda. male members as associates or honorary members. The association was established during the 5th Parliament of 1.2 UWOPA key Focus area in the 9th Parliament Uganda (1989 - 1994) with the aim of engendering the legislative process , creating awareness on women’s rights • Engendering Legislation and encouraging lobbying and advocacy, networking, training and organizational capacity building. UWOPA • Equitable allocation of resources provides a forum for women members of parliament to discuss, share experiences and support activities that • Constituency outreach for effective representation facilitate women’s participation and leadership in all dimensions including politics, social, economics, science • Reproductive Health ( Maternal health) and technology. • Peace building UWOPA seeks to contribute to a Uganda where there is social justice, peace and economic empowerment for all. • Institutional Building and Networking UWOPA’s specific contribution is to ensure engendered laws and policies and lobby for resource allocation to improve the quality of women’s lives through effective representation, capacity building, political support and networking. 1.3 INTRODUCTION 1.1 UWOPA’s Objectives This report gives detailed status on implementation • To engender the legislative process in parliament and address the gender gaps therein. of programmatic activities as per the work plan in the UWOPA Strategic Plan 2011-2016 and thematic • To build and strengthen the capacity of women areas of UWOPA mandate but also highlights the members of parliament to effectively perform their keys results/achievements, best practices, lessons roles as members of parliament. learnt and challenges as well as recommendations • To network and collaborate with local, national, and for future project alignment and execution. International institutions for strong linkage and alliance building to support and promote women’s efforts. page| 2 NOMIC E ECO MPO D WE AN R E M C E A N E T P F , O E R C I A T L S .. L ....... U ...... U J ..... .... G ....... L ... A A D I A C .................................. N O S UWOPA 2012 Annual Report S 1.4 OVERALL ACHIEVEMENTS • Learning visits made in Ghana and Turkey on Gender Responsive Budgeting enabled UWOPA and the entire • Moving an amendment to the rules of procedure for parliament to learn from these GRB model countries. gender Parity in all committee leadership positions in Parliament. Successfully 40% leadership positions for • Periodic sensitization of members of parliament on females were accepted, incorporated and approved gender responsive budgets helped UWOPA members in the Parliamentary rules of procedure. to pressurize government to increase the health budget in the FY 2012/13 • An amendment to the rules of procedure was moved to incorporate Gender Equity certificate for • UWOPA monitoring maternal health services in compliancy of all national sectors in gender budgeting various regions of the country held government and planning. With guidance from members of the accountable house especially those on the budget committee and the speaker the issue was referred to the • Through rigorous trainings, the knowledge and Budget Committee to be incorporated in the ongoing responsibilities of MPs of their roles were enhanced amendments for the Budget Act. spear heading advocacy initiatives on the floor of Parliament. • UWOPAs efforts in advocating for Gender Responsive budgeting and planning in National sectors has • Women Members of Parliament influenced enhanced commitment from Parliament saw the government to create a maternal health vote and gender Budgeting program launched in Parliament influenced increased governments funding towards under the Parliament Budget office. maternal health. • UWOPA engaged in a rigorous country wide campaign • Under SNO project, UWOPA greatly increased in cancer screening and sensitization which was awareness of gender based violence, its causes and launched in Kabarole district. During this campaign, mitigation measures. monitoring visits were also made to government • There was also increased knowledge about the health facilities to establish the condition
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