REDUCING ON THE USE OF FIREWOOD SWID Availed 100 households with environmentally friendly energy saving cooking stoves. These help reduce on pollution, reduce health issues like respiratory diseases due to reduced smoke, help in the fight to protect trees from being cut for charcoal, they are income saving because in Uganda electricity and gas is […]
VALUE CHAIN ADDITION AWARENESS RAISING
FAIR FOR ALL. IMPROVING VALUE CHAINS AT SCALE- STRENGTHENING GRASSROOTS WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION AND VOICE FOR INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE AGRI BUSINESS VALUE CHAINS WITH 150 GRASSROOTS WOMEN IN KAMULI DISTRICT KAGUMBA SUBCOUNTY AND KALIRO DISTRICT. Busoga subregion is considered the poorest region in Uganda as per Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS) 2021 report. https://www.watchdoguganda.com/news/20210604/115030/ubos-report-busoga-region-has-the-poorest-people-in-uganda.html Women and […]
The Fight against Climate change Through planting fruit Trees.
40 SWID Grassroots women from 3 Districts Kamuli, kaliro and Jinja walukuba got a chance to be taken for a study on fruit tree planting . studied from a farm with about 5000 fruit trees mainly mangoes , pawpaws ,Oranges and Tangerines. Fruit trees contribute to the fight against climate change, they are source of […]
FAIR FOR ALL PROJECT
IMPROVING VALUE CHAINS AT SCALE- STRENGTHENING GRASSROOTS WOMEN’S PARTICIPATION AND VOICE FOR INCLUSIVE AND SUSTAINABLE AGRI BUSINESS VALUE CHAINS. Slum Women’s Initiative for Development sponsored by Huairuo Commission and Oxfam Novib, partners in Bugiri under UCOBAC and WARE UG in kabong implementing a 5 year Fair for all project in Busoga subregion With 150 women […]
GENDER CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY IN GRASSROOT COMMUNITIES.
GENDER CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOOD SECURITY IN GRASSROOT COMMUNITIES. The agency of rural female farmers is essential for enhancing agricultural productivity and realizing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including ensuring food security (SDG 2) and addressing the perils of climate change (SDG 13). […]
Feminist women visiting the housing project of SWID
OUR NICHE IS WOMEN, SECURITY OF TENURE, SHELTER. We are glad to share information and what we do with other people. We believe together we can improve the situation in our country and world at large.
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 […]
The Road to Acquisition of Land and Housing by Grassroots Women
Grassroots Women Focused Savings & Borrowing for Land & Housing The women have initiated a savings and credit scheme through which they save and borrow through a revolving loan that has seen many women acquire land and housing, start up business, pay school fees for their children and improve on their living condition with limited […]
Health and Home Based Care
The home based caregivers of SWID visit nearly 100 patients twice per month. The majority of women in the group are widows, single mothers, sole income earners and those living positively. They have mobilized simply because the need to assist the most vulnerable populations has not been met by the local government. SWID allocated part […]