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After realising that while significant efforts were made by the government of Uganda and the Non government organisations (NGOs) to disseminate information on a range of issues to promote sustainable development for all, a lot still needs to be done. Most of this information particularly relating to women’s’ economic empowerment is not readily accessible.

CEEWA-U therefore developed an ICT Project to bridge the information gap between information sources, institutions with information and the end users. The Project facilitates linkages with the women at the grass root level and assists in establishing the impact of government policies and programmes and how the use and application of ICTs create an avenue for bridging the information gap.

With support from International Development Research Centre (1999-2001), CEEWA-U was able to mobilize women and pilot test the Project in three districts namely Mpigi, Wakiso and Kampala in central Uganda. During this period CEEWA-U sensitised and created awareness among women entrepreneurs about the role ICTs play in empowering and strengthening their ability to run and manage their lives and businesses.

Currently with the support of Humanistic Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries (Hivos), CEEWA - U has continued to implement the ICT project in six project districts/sites namely Buwama sub county Mpigi district, Nabweru sub county Wakiso district, Nakawa division Kampala district and Goma sub county Mukono district in central Uganda plus Budondo sub county Jinja district and Bulamagi sub county Iganga district in Eastern Uganda.

The main objective of the project is to enable rural women entrepreneurs and women organizations that promote enterprise development to explore ways and means of exploiting ICTs for community economic empowerment.

Vision is a woman who is economically empowered and able to access and apply ICT’s to promote her enterprise. The focus of the project is on building capacity of grass root women to access and utilize ICTs for enterprise development.

The ICT Project is implemented under the Women and Entrepreneurship Development (WED) Programme which has two sub components i.e. Women Information Resource Electronic Services (WIRES) and the Empowerment Resource Centre.

Ministry of ICT	Hivos	UCC	Wougnet	UWEAL	DENIVA
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