Women and Children’s Empowerment Network in Africa - WACENA Uganda

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Women and Children’s Empowerment Network in Africa – WACENA Uganda was established in 2008 by a group of concerned mothers and women students from Makerere University Kampala for the purpose of alleviating the acute long-term consequences of violence against women and children in Uganda through long-term sustainable empowerment programs. Empowerment of women means development of their ability to take collective and individual control over their lives, identify their needs & determine them.

The mission of Women And Children’s Empowerment Network in Africa (WACENA) is to establish and maintain a reliable platform through which the voices of women and children would be heard and respected.

The ultimate goal of WACENA is to enhance income, protection, equality and development for women and children

Our work
• Give priority to advocating for the human rights of the women and children and their invisible movements, groups or activities in their respective communities.
• Focus attention on violence due to religion, culture or tradition, inequality, discrimination, poverty, violence against women and children in conflict situations, or as a result of natural disasters and those who are at risk and vulnerable on multiple fronts.
• Offer legal intervention to the victims of sexual abuse and neglect in order to realize the civil, cultural, economic, and social rights, including the right to development.
• Monitor and evaluate the impact of its work through the substantive benefit that is accrued through it to beneficiaries around the continent in particular and world in general.

Activities:
• Preparation of Training Manuals for gender equality.
• Micro-credit training for raped and defiled woman living in the slums.
• Initiating anti-child sacrifice campaigns.
• Establishing and facilitating Women and Children Non-Violence Forums.
• Developing a network of unemployed young women.
• Developing and disseminating HIV/AIDS awareness products and publications.
• Producing video educational programs on HIV/AIDS and violence against women and children.
• Training women as facilitators for the Youth and Project staff in HIV/AIDS awareness-raising strategies.
• Establishing a database and carrying out regular monitoring and evaluation (M&E) systems for HIV/AIDS affected women and children.
• Conducting zonal workshops for High School girls and senior women teachers on issues of empowering young girls.
• Addressing the issue of elevating a government policy that would make all sanitary products for women and girls tax-free products.
Building infrastructure – Building a Communuty:
• Infrastructure for Sustainability: WACENA operates two wells that provide water for the junior school and for the surrounding community.
• WACENA.org is the online home for Women And Children’s Empowerment Network in Africa, WACENA Uganda.

Maggie Ndagire is the Senior Operations Manager at Women and Children’s Empowerment Network in Africa – WACENA Uganda.

For other net participants we can offer an expert guidance through trained staff, give an expert opinion, procure expert information and establish new contacts in the field of our work.