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Access to ICTs affects both men and women living in remote areas. However, for women living in rural areas, access to ICTs means overcoming multiple barriers relating not only to their location but also their gender. The multiple barriers constrain and limit rural women’s ability to harness new technologies in their lives, and to access vital information shared via ICTs: information that could impact on improving agricultural production, government programs that could affect their lives as well as health and support services. The gender bias in ICT access deprives many rural women, more so than men, of their universal and fundamental right to communicate. However, the important contribution that ICT can make in bridging the gender divide and empowering women has been recognized by the International Telecommunications Union (http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/sis/Gender/index.html) of which Uganda is a member. |
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Poverty is a condition where people's basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter are not being met. Poverty is interconnected to other problems of underdevelopment. The scope of poverty in both rural and urban settings often varies. For in urban areas people often have access to health and education but many of the problems caused by poverty are made worse by things like overcrowding, unhygienic conditions, pollution, unsafe houses etc. In rural areas there is often poor access to education, health and many other services but people usually live in healthier and safer environments. |
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Laying on the veranda of Otwee Health Centre III in Amuru Town Council are the patients who visited the Health Centre on the 9th May 2013 to access medical services. However, it was unfortunate that there was no health worker at that time to attend to them. Having no alternative, the patients wait patiently for the health workers who end up reporting for duty at leisure. It clocks mid-day and no health centre staff has yet reported for duty. |
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Last week I went to Apac district to discuss the perceptions around gender-based violence in the communities. We visited three different groups in three different parishes of Apac district. Two of these groups were comprised of members from WOUGNET’s Voluntary Social Accountability Committees (VSACs). The men and women that we encountered in each of the villages were very friendly and welcoming and eager to discuss what they view are the concerns which surround GBV in their communities. We were able to generate some very good discussions around what gender imbalances there are in the communities and the ways in which women and girls experience violence in these communities. Issues of concern to the community primarily involve domestic violence, forced marriage and defilement. The discussions also included recommendations from the people on what types of interventions they would like to see and different programs that they feel would be useful. WOUGNET will compile the responses from these discussions which will help to guide potential programs of intervention around gender-based violence.
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The police are expected to work in partnership with the communities they serve to maintain law and order, protect members of the public and their property, prevent crime, reduce the fear of crime and improve the quality of life for all citizens. They use a wide range of technology to protect individuals, identify the perpetrators of crime and ensure successful prosecutions against those who break the law. |
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