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Over 17,000 persons are in decision-making positions at both national and district levels in the country. However, women constitute only 39% of these decision makers . This limited participation of women in economic policy decision making, partly explains the persistent gender inequalities in economic policies and programmes because many are gender blind. This in turn is partly responsible for the unequal and stagnant economic growth rates being experienced in Uganda- a phenomenon that is frustrating the poverty reduction efforts.
A needs assessment to identify why policy makers were not mainstreaming gender, identified the key issues as being:
Inadequate skills and systems to allow technocrats to integrate gender into their programme activities.
Inadequate gender disaggregated data, and Policy debates at national level that relegates the gender issues to domestic making concerns.
To address the first issue, CEEWA-U designed a gender analysis and training tool that was used to train some local government officials. Currently the Manual has been given to training Institutions to use when training economic decision makers in gender analysis.
The focus for GEDM is to influence national economic policy debates. Initial efforts were geared towards engendering the Medium Term Competitiveness Strategy (MTCS) and the Strategic Exports Programme (SEP). Within these programmes focus is on the trade policy and the fish and horticultural exports. Analytical work on trade and the fish sub-sector, have established that the main constraints hindering effective participation of women are:
Lack of relevant skills
Lack/limited information
Lack/limited credit facilities to capitalize their operations
In the medium term, the focus of the advocacy strategy will be to ensure that relevant policy- makers address the issues already identified through action research. In addition, more research work will be carried out in other areas of the MTCS and SEP.
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| Min of Gender... | DFID | MS Uganda | BROSDI/CELAC | UWONET | NAWOU |
| Min of Finance.. | World Bank | GTZ | AMFUI | UIA | |
| Min of Agr... | ICEIDA | IFC | NGO Forum | AWID |
