Strengthening Women’s Livelihoods and Magnifying Resilience to COVID-19 Emergency by Promoting Effective Use of Digital Technologies in Uganda (SMILE)
Funder: Association for Progressive
Communications (APC)
Partners: 20 WOUGNET’s Member
Organizations in Northern, Eastern, Western and Central Uganda
Project
Overview:
The SMILE project aims to promote a
conducive digital environment by supporting staff (women) to access effective and safe internet
where there is none or it is unaffordable to use digital technologies to
develop their communities and further their rights amidst the COVID-19 crisis.
The project aims at equipping and empowering
female staff with knowledge, skills, and competence in the use of digital
technology for instance video conferencing tools/software and online safety
skills as well as enhance
rapid localization of COVID-19 information and other human rights-related
content to the most at-risk women and girls in rural areas. The expected
outcome of this initiative will be an increased number of women enabled to
meaningfully access and use the internet and digital technologies to fight and
respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and its associated effects on the most at-risk
population in Uganda. The proposed project will mostly enhance the
grassroots women’s rights and feminist-led organizations to mobilize themselves
and hold the government accountable for its discriminatory practices.
Project
Duration: 24 Months (Between 2021 and 2023)
