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Women making rural access possible in Uganda
Introduction
| Initiative Name: | Enhancing Access to Rural agricultural information using ICTs |
| Author: | Davis J. Weddi |
| Country: | Uganda [UG] |
| Theme: | Agriculture | Livelihood opportunities |
| Access | Capacity building | Gender | Telecentres | |
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The Story
Background and context:
Northern Uganda has been at the centre of a two-decade long insurgency that has left the rural communities in a precarious pandemonium-like situation characterised by widespread poverty, high illiteracy levels and bad living conditions. But this insurgence just came at a time when the region was supposed to be eliminating these obstacles to achieving a dignified, civilised way of life. However, in the last 8 yrs, Apac district, where this project is located, has been relatively safe that is why WOUGNET have been able to establish the rural access project there, according to the WOUGNET Director Dr. Dorothy Okello.
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