Bbumba to sell women’s ideas at CHOGM
May 14, 2007
UGANDA is to host the eighth Commonwealth Women Affairs Ministers’ Meeting from June 8 to 14, at Speke Resort Munyonyo. Over 300 delegates from 53 Commonwealth countries will attend as well as representatives from the World Bank, African Development Bank, United Nations, European Union and other d
By Moses Mulondo
UGANDA is to host the eighth Commonwealth Women Affairs Ministers’ Meeting from June 8 to 14, at Speke Resort Munyonyo. Over 300 delegates from 53 Commonwealth countries will attend as well as representatives from the World Bank, African Development Bank, United Nations, European Union and other development partners.
The Commonwealth Secretariat, said in a statement, that the meeting will review the implementation of the Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-2015 and decide its monitoring and evaluation framework.
The statement further indicates that the meeting would also focus on strengthening institutional capacities to enhance gender mainstreaming and achieving the millennium development goals.
Recommendations for financing gender equality will be finalised during the meeting and later presented at the Commonwealth finance ministers’ meeting in Guyana in September and CHOGM in Kampala in November.
“Uganda is so fortunate because this is the first time in history the is coinciding with CHOGM in the same year and the same country. Therefore, it will act as a curtain-raiser for the November CHOGM,†said Syda Bbumba, the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development.
Held after every three years, the meeting is part of the Commonwealth strategy to promote gender equality among member states and to contribute to the global gender agenda.
The meeting will be officially opened by President Yoweri Museveni on June 11. Don McKinnon, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, will deliver a keynote address.
Bbumba will be chairperson of the summit.
She promised to portray Uganda as an African model and a success story as far as gender sensitivity and women empowerment is concerned.
“I shall highlight the different developments in Uganda that indicate progress of the women emancipation. We have good examples to learn from like that of Specioza Kazibwe as the first female African vice-president and Lt. Col. Proscovia Nalweyiso, a woman soldier with the highest rank in Africa,†Bbumba said.
Jane Mpagi, the coordinator of the secretariat of the Commonwealth Women Affairs Minister’s meeting, said this year’s meeting is special because it is the first one to be held since the September 2005 Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality was resolved.
Mpagi, who is also the director of gender and community development in the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development, said that Uganda women entrepreneurs will exhibit products at the same venue.
The Uganda Women Members of Parliament recently held a two-day workshop at Munyonyo to generate ideas for the minister’s meeting.
It is 20 years since Africa hosted the minister’s meeting, way back before the world women emancipation became a reality. Uganda is the third country to hold such a meeting in Africa. The first meeting was held in Kenya in 1985 and the second in Zimbabwe. The previous meeting was held in Fiji Islands from May 30 to June 2, 2004.
UGANDA is to host the eighth Commonwealth Women Affairs Ministers’ Meeting from June 8 to 14, at Speke Resort Munyonyo. Over 300 delegates from 53 Commonwealth countries will attend as well as representatives from the World Bank, African Development Bank, United Nations, European Union and other development partners.
The Commonwealth Secretariat, said in a statement, that the meeting will review the implementation of the Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality 2005-2015 and decide its monitoring and evaluation framework.
The statement further indicates that the meeting would also focus on strengthening institutional capacities to enhance gender mainstreaming and achieving the millennium development goals.
Recommendations for financing gender equality will be finalised during the meeting and later presented at the Commonwealth finance ministers’ meeting in Guyana in September and CHOGM in Kampala in November.
“Uganda is so fortunate because this is the first time in history the is coinciding with CHOGM in the same year and the same country. Therefore, it will act as a curtain-raiser for the November CHOGM,†said Syda Bbumba, the Minister of Gender, Labour and Social Development.
Held after every three years, the meeting is part of the Commonwealth strategy to promote gender equality among member states and to contribute to the global gender agenda.
The meeting will be officially opened by President Yoweri Museveni on June 11. Don McKinnon, the Commonwealth Secretary-General, will deliver a keynote address.
Bbumba will be chairperson of the summit.
She promised to portray Uganda as an African model and a success story as far as gender sensitivity and women empowerment is concerned.
“I shall highlight the different developments in Uganda that indicate progress of the women emancipation. We have good examples to learn from like that of Specioza Kazibwe as the first female African vice-president and Lt. Col. Proscovia Nalweyiso, a woman soldier with the highest rank in Africa,†Bbumba said.
Jane Mpagi, the coordinator of the secretariat of the Commonwealth Women Affairs Minister’s meeting, said this year’s meeting is special because it is the first one to be held since the September 2005 Commonwealth Plan of Action for Gender Equality was resolved.
Mpagi, who is also the director of gender and community development in the Ministry of Gender, Labour, and Social Development, said that Uganda women entrepreneurs will exhibit products at the same venue.
The Uganda Women Members of Parliament recently held a two-day workshop at Munyonyo to generate ideas for the minister’s meeting.
It is 20 years since Africa hosted the minister’s meeting, way back before the world women emancipation became a reality. Uganda is the third country to hold such a meeting in Africa. The first meeting was held in Kenya in 1985 and the second in Zimbabwe. The previous meeting was held in Fiji Islands from May 30 to June 2, 2004.