SWID avails fifty Butagaya women with energy saving stoves
Inline with Goal Number 13 and Goal Number 7 of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and in a bid to adapt to climate change and reduce global warming, Slum Women’s initiative for Development has partnered with the Huairou Commision to help conserve the environment by providing energy saving stoves. SWID is committed to helping […]
Benefits of Joining a housing Co-operative
Secure tenure has been one of the biggest benefits for Slum Women’s Initiative for Development (SWID)’s members. Before, they were subjected to evictions and land grabbing and they were constantly living in fear of losing their homes. Now many of the members are in the process of getting their land titles and with that security, […]
A Success Story of a Grassroots Woman
Before SWID’s intervention, Walukuba/Masese Division had several problems affecting women including land grabbing as a result of traditional beliefs that deny women the right to inherit land and property after losing their spouses or parents, discrimination and stigma among HIV positive women, a wide gap between leaders and community members, and a lack of knowledge […]
Director Joyce presents a paper in Malaysia on Best Practices of Grassroots women
Kuala Lumpur Convention Center (KLCC), Malaysia 02-07-2018 / 02-13-2018. The Ninth Session of the World Urban Forum was the first session to focus on the implementation of the New Urban Agenda adopted in Habitat III. WUF9 was instrumental to substantively feed into the inputs for the first report of the implementation of the New Urban […]
Director Joyce hands over silos and a threshing machine to Budondo women
On 13th September 2017, the Director of Slum Womens’ Inititative for Development handed over silos and a threshing machine to Budondo Women Farmers’ Cooperative in a bid to enhance reduce food loss and enhance food security as well as income and livelihoods of the women. The Director encouraged the Budondo women to take advantage of […]
Poverty Eradication and Social Inclusion in Rural and Urban settings
View the Presentation here Poverty Eradication and Social Inclusion in Rural and Urban settings Jinja – Uganda experience Argentina Presentation
Fostering Transparency in Land Ownership Use and Transmission: Jinja case Study: (Conference Paper)
Download the Paper LPI SWID Final Paper CONFERENCE ON LAND POLICY IN AFRICA Slum Womens Initiative for Development
Slum Women’s initiative for Development Key Achievements till 2018
Key Achievements There has been significant progress, with increasing percentages of women’s names appearing on the land titles. Advocacy and hard work, has made men change attitudes and allowed women’s names to be put on land documents as owners rather than witnesses as it used to be. This has reduced both disinheritance and family domestic […]
SWIDAPES Project
Brief description of SWIDAPES The objective of the Slum Women’s Initiative for Development through Agroforestry Payment for Ecosystem Services (SWIDAPES) is to provide agroforestry emission certification to female smallholder farmers and strengthen their land rights. The outcome of the SWIDAPES project will support reforestation and afforestation efforts of the Slum Women’s Initiative for Development (SWID) […]