Can getting more directly elected women change trend?

On February, 2006, the Uganda Women’s Network (UWONET) led other women NGOs to the launch of the Women’s Manifesto 2006 at Hotel Africana in Kampala.

The Women’s manifesto was designed to help women get a common understanding of issues that they wanted parliament and the government to address. Developed against the backdrop of the equal opportunities commission stated in article 32(2) of the Uganda Constitution 1995, the manifesto was also meant to get more women interested in taking up leadership positions in politics, especially Parliament.

Among the important women issues targeted was the eradication of poverty and economically empowering women. The government was to deliberately promote their access to and control of land, and other productive assets.

 “The clause on co-ownership of land by spouses should be incorporated in the Land Act of 1998,” their manifesto said.