Women’s Agency for Economic Transformation for GEWE - Uganda Women’s Network (UWONET)

Strategic Objective

To enhance collaboration and women’s capacity to influence actions to advance economic justice to promote GEWE by 2028.

Women’s economic marginalization and dependency is a key factor that continues to widen gender inequalities. Therefore, addressing women’s economic transformation is a catalyst to achieving women’s rights. Women’s economic empowerment can only be achieved by ensuring equality and equity in access to, utilization and benefit from productive resources and opportunities.

Economic policies that are gender–responsive and adequately funded can remove structural barriers to women’s economic empowerment, including addressing gender inequities in managing the disproportionate distribution of unpaid care and domestic work among women and men, accessing critical finance for business, information, and entrepreneurship skills among other benefits.

UWONET will work towards influencing the formulation and enforcement of processes, policies, laws and programmes that promote women’s access to economic opportunities, advocate for recognition, reduction and redistribution of women’s unpaid care and domestic work and collective action to influence change or negative attitude towards women’s economic empowerment from a feminist economist point of view to address the continued vicious circle of poverty and gender inequality.

Outcome 1: Increased capacity of UWONET’s members and allies to advocate and influence feminist transformative economic justice to promote women’s economic empowerment and
agency.

Key Strategic Actions:
1. Coordinate and collaborate UWONET members and like-minded organizations and individuals on the development of a minimum capacity development resource pack on feminist economic empowerment and agency for women.
2. Advocate for policies, regulations, plans, budgets and tax regimes that facilitate women’s economic empowerment and agency.
3. Document women’s experiences on economic programmes to inform review and implementation.
4. Create spaces for capacity enhancement, information sharing and networking on women’s economic empowerment and agency.
5. Build strategic partnerships with line ministries to promote women–led and/or women formed cooperatives/groups for collective advocacy against discrimination in access to economic opportunities and markets (local and international).

Outcome 2: Increased recognition, reduction, redistribution and representation of the unpaid care and domestic work.

Key Strategic Actions:
1. Coordinate, advocate, monitor and evaluate the implementation and enactment in legal, policy framework and programs on unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW).
2. Create initiatives and innovation for, understanding and appreciation of recognition, reduction, redistribution and representation of unpaid care and the implications on GEWE.
3. Build strategic partnerships for gender responsive budgeting.
4. Conduct research on gender budgeting initiatives in addressing UCDW.
5. Create spaces and platforms on unpaid care and Domestic Work.
7.Build synergies and coordination mechanisms with line ministries on UCDW.

Outcome 3: Enhanced collective action to influence change on negative social-cultural norms and resilience to climate change towards women’s economic empowerment and agency.

Key Strategic Actions:
1. Coordinate spaces and platforms on Women’s Economic Empowerment (WEE) and agency.
2. Capacity enhancement on economic empowerment and agency for women at different levels.
3. Coordinate advocacy initiatives towards women’s economic justice.
4. Coordinate initiates for members’ capacity enhancement on economic empowerment and agency.
5. Document women’s economic empowerment and agency models.
6.Development of joint programmes on women’s economic empowerment and agency.

Thematic Focus Area: Women’s Agency for Economic Transformation for GEWE

Strategic Objective

Outcome 1: Increased capacity of UWONET’s members and allies to advocate and influence feminist transformative economic justice to promote women’s economic empowerment andagency.

Outcome 2: Increased recognition, reduction, redistribution and representation of the unpaid care and domestic work.

Outcome 3: Enhanced collective action to influence change on negative social-cultural norms and resilience to climate change towards women’s economic empowerment and agency.

Outcome 1: Increased capacity of UWONET’s members and allies to advocate and influence feminist transformative economic justice to promote women’s economic empowerment and
agency.