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  • Board Finance Committee Chair Mr. Alex B. Okello on Corruption in Uganda

    Board Finance Committee Chair Mr. Alex B. Okello on Corruption in Uganda

    The Anti -Corruption Act, 2009, defines corruption in terms of its various manifestations such as, among others: Contemporary corruption has increasingly become complex in form, nature and manifestation, often practiced in syndicates and systematic collusion, with a high level of concealment to beat even the most prudent anti-corruption systems. Corruption has also become trans-boundary, aggravated…

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  • Development lessons from President Barack Obama’s mother Ann Dunham

    Development lessons from President Barack Obama’s mother Ann Dunham

    “Ann Dunham considered peasants just as important a people as those of high rank,” Professor Alice Dewey, her mentor, is quoted as having observed. With such an ‘Ubuntu perspective’, it is no wonder Dunham: “In her groundbreaking work in the developing world, a lifelong study of rural blacksmithing traditions in Indonesia, she was able to…

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  • Cholera can and should be relegated to history books and museums in Uganda

    Cholera can and should be relegated to history books and museums in Uganda

    Our Board Chair, Professor Christopher Garimoi Orach, in his capacity as a professor at the Makerere School of Public Health, Kampala and with affiliation to Ministry of Health, is among a team of 22 who conducted a study on cholera and have authored an article titled: “New Vibrio cholera sequences from Eastern and Southern Africa…

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  • Canadian Physicians for Aid & Relief (CPAR) invites you to join in celebrating Earth Day

    Canadian Physicians for Aid & Relief (CPAR) invites you to join in celebrating Earth Day

    “We are excited to share with you our campaign this week that promises to make a meaningful impact: Earth Week! Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR) invites you to join us in celebrating Earth Day with a week-long campaign dedicated to supporting sustainable initiatives. From sweatshirts to toques, you can win it all AND…

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  • National Gathering of Women & girls – leading against hunger & malnutrition

    National Gathering of Women & girls – leading against hunger & malnutrition

    We are happy that Food Rights Alliance invited and contracted our Managing Director, Ms. Norah Owaraga, “TO MODERATE THE NATIONAL GATHERING OF WOMEN IN THE AGRI-FOOD SYSTEM”; which she did on Friday, 12th April 2024. The theme for the gathering was “WOMEN AND GIRLS LEADING AGAINST HUNGER AND MALNUTRITION”; which gathering was held at Hotel…

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  • Unconditional cash grants to women are key to stimulating economic development

    Unconditional cash grants to women are key to stimulating economic development

    I absolutely loved this short five-minute video, “Jump Starting Economic Recovery Through The Unconditional Cash Transfer Facility”, by Financial Sector Deepening Uganda (FSD Uganda). Wow! What an effective way to communicate the power of “small is beautiful”. How FSD Uganda intervened, providing disadvantaged women with unconditional small cash grants of Ug. Shs. 571,000 (US$ 153),…

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