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 […]
UNDER GROUND SOLAR WATER PUMPING .
SWID grassroots women learning about Under ground solar water pumping for home use and irrigation as a solution to the effects of climate change.
SWID Members Educated on the Land Titling Process
SWID has embarked on disseminating information on the right procedure to process a land title in Jinja City. This is enabling grassroots women to directly apply for land titles from the land office. This is enhancing women and girls security of land tenure
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.
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, […]
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 […]