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Oulanyah: Parliament Supports Impactful Efforts to Transform Rural Women

by Kungu Al-mahadi Adam
September 8, 2021
Oulanyah: Parliament Supports Impactful Efforts to Transform Rural Women

Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah meeting UN Women Uganda Representatives

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Speaker Jacob Oulanyah has asked representatives of the UN Women to align their agenda with the struggle to transform and uplift rural women, as opposed to high sounding statements without clear deliverables.

In a meeting with UN Women Uganda Representatives led by Ms Elizabeth Mushabe, who is also the Deputy Country Representative, Oulanyah, according to a statement issued by Sarah Kagingo, Principal Press Secretary, Office of the Speaker, urged for a shift from speaking at high tables, conferences and floating figures that are in abstract with the realities on ground, saying instead there should be a deliberate push to make the agenda impactful to all women including the rural based ones.

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“How do we translate (these agendas) into practical things? I want impactful discussions about things that affect women, actions we can take” he said.

He added: “We should stop measuring things on the basis of how much money we have allocated, but rather we must do output accountability. What is the value? What impact has been made?”

Drawing parallels with President Museveni’s communication during celebrations to mark the International Labour Day, Oulanyah said benchmarks such as how many women no longer carry children on their bare backs, the ones liberated from fetching firewood and how many more children access school because the river barrier that blocked the road was resolved, should be adopted instead of statistics that are ungrounded.

“(I want us to assess progress in) real terms; these are the shifts I want to hear…come to me with pragmatic things, what we need to do to transform the women” he said.

“In all this (women empowerment), we want to know that what works is what counts, we should make our work count for these people,” he added.

Ms Mushabe hailed Parliament’s record in gender empowerment, and made a case for stalled gender Bills from the 10th Parliament, and sought for their revival.

“In the space of policy and legal development, several Bills and policies have come to Parliament; some have progressed while others have stalled; it would be good if they were revived,” she said.

Oulanyah, in response, said there is a process to activate the bills.

Ms Mushabe also promised to create, in collaboration with Parliament, a technical unit on gender responsiveness. She said UN Women has over they years supported the Uganda Women Parliamentary Association (UWOPA).

Oulanyah supported the idea of a technical unit, “especially if it is going to generate for us facts.”

Ms Mushabe also made a case for the support that needs to be given to boost businesses run by women, which are suffering the snaps from the Covid-19 impact on the economy.

Oulanyah informed the UN Women delegation that the House sitting on 7 September was going to debate the impact of covid-19.

“We are going to have a good debate; to consider a motion on lessons learnt from a socio-economic impact assessment of Covid-19 on tourism, trade and industry sector. This includes women’s businesses as well as those in the informal sector,” he said.

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