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  • Uganda’s Markets Act 2023 is a welcome development

    Uganda’s Markets Act 2023 is a welcome development

    Wrangles between market vendors and city or municipal authorities are increasing and escalating to uncomfortable levels throughout Uganda. In most cases, vendors feel city or municipal authorities do not listen to them and that the authorities manage markets in an authoritarian and dictatorial manner. “It is unfair as vendors are making losses and leaders are…

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  • Menstrual hygiene campaign in the news

    Menstrual hygiene campaign in the news

    This year, we, at CPAR Uganda, have joined the Menstrual Hygiene Campaign. And we are delighted that as part of our campaign to demand women menstruate with dignity, on menstrual hygiene day, Sunday, 28th May 2023, our Managing Director, Ms. Norah Owaraga, successfully hosted a women’s conversation on menstrual hygiene. The event was well received,…

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  • Worrying that 80% of schools don’t have incinerators

    Worrying that 80% of schools don’t have incinerators

    “I remember when we were growing up, we were told, “don’t let a dog sniff on your blood.” These days, you have used a pad and you don’t know where it is ending, wont the dog meet it there?”  A Senior Civil Servant Honestly, at the time, I did not understand that bit about “don’t…

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  • Uganda Woman MPs hear menstruating workforce

    Uganda Woman MPs hear menstruating workforce

    “When we are in our periods. There are things that we need to have, especially in toilets that we go to. Among them is water. We need water to stay clean. We need to wash our hands. Even soap is needed. When we go to toilets, we need to find in them toilet paper.” Market…

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  • Women need period-friendly toilets urgently

    Women need period-friendly toilets urgently

    “Disposal pads are the most commonly used material among career women in Uganda,” this is according to the findings of a situational analysis study in 2020 on menstrual health management in Uganda. Among the study findings are the fact that when menstruating: It is likely that the majority of Ugandan women who use re-usable pads…

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  • Cyber revenge porn is sexual violence & needs stopping

    Cyber revenge porn is sexual violence & needs stopping

    The Executive Director of Akina Mama Wa Afrika is on point with this type of sexual and gender-based violence which we must all take seriously. “In other cases, jilted lovers expose nude pictures of their ex-girlfriends on social media platforms in what is locally called “revenge porn”. In 2014 Desire Luzinda, a celebrated Ugandan musician,…

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  • Celebrating the life of late Judy Adoko

    Celebrating the life of late Judy Adoko

    Three days before International Women’s Day, on 5th March 2023, our Judy Adoko, founder member and board member of CPAR Uganda Ltd, rested.  #IWD2023 is a day to recognise and celebrate women and girls across the world. This year’s theme is: DigitALL – innovation & technology for gender equality. At CPAR Uganda Ltd, we believe…

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  • Women in politics – Uganda’s Affirmative Action

    Women in politics – Uganda’s Affirmative Action

    Happy International Women’s Day! Today we are celebrating and recognising women and girls across the world. Here’s to a more equal future, here’s to a future where no woman is left behind. Comment below and tag a woman who inspires you – let’s create a ripple of #IWD2023 love online today! We, at CPAR Uganda,…

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  • Policy advocacy on sexual & gender-based violence

    Policy advocacy on sexual & gender-based violence

    Funding available, with overall supervision from our CPAR Uganda Board Chair, Prof. Dr. Christopher Garimoi Orach (PhD, MPH, MMed, DPH, MB ChB; Cert. in Refugee Studies, Cert. in Health Emergencies in Large Pops), our CPAR Uganda Managing Director, Ms. Norah Owaraga (MScDevMgmt(Open); DipDevMgmt(Open); BA Communication Studies), a cultural anthropologist and communication expert, will take the…

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  • Situation analysis – sexual & GBV in Northern Uganda

    Situation analysis – sexual & GBV in Northern Uganda

    “When her husband died, my great grandma was pushed off family land and she lost all her cattle when she refused to marry her brother-in-law. Her father welcomed her back to his home and gave her a small piece of land and one cow to start the process of raising her boys.” Testimony recently shared…

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