UNIFEM (part of UN Women), with the generous contribution of the Canadian International Development Agency, today launches a Call for Proposals for the Fund for Women’s Property and Inheritance Rights in the Context of HIV/AIDS. The Fund will provide small, catalytic grants totalling US$700,000 in 2010 to grassroots and community-based organizations or networks in sub-Saharan Africa working to improve women’s access to property and inheritance rights within the context of HIV/AIDS. Women’s property ownership and inheritance rights can play a significant role in potentially breaking the cycle of AIDS and poverty. There is growing evidence to suggest that where women’s property rights are upheld, women acting as heads and/or primary caregivers of HIV/AIDS-affected households are better able to mitigate the impact of AIDS on their families and communities and can also help prevent the further spread of HIV/AIDS. Realistic and workable strategies at the grassroots have demonstrated that increasing women’s economic security and empowerment, increases their negotiating power in the household and is a means to reduce their physical and social vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. Interested applicants from sub-Saharan Africa are invited to apply. The Call for Proposals opens on 20 September 2010 and will close on 20 October 2010.
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Dear am a Uganda please we handle OVC's and child mothers in the context of HIV/AIDS.
Are their ways we can partner
thanks
My name is Macharia from Kenya am very motivated by your work. now i always have this idea of doing research on how i can help people realize their dreams through good farming practices,am well conversant in this area and i can highly able to handle the work. i had thought of starting from one county where i live. but the main challenge remains, funding.my proposal which i wrote to the school,Egerton concerning the same had being seen to be a good idea but they told me they cannt afford to facilitate everything only moral and professional support. please help me to carry out this idea forward as it will help many in this blanket.thank you and am eagerly waiting for your positive response
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The club, which meets three times a week, is supported by UNICEF and implemented by COW Foundation a local non-governmental organization. Its goal is to development the capacity of the pupils, both boys and girls, at 30 schools to translate the knowledge in to practice, so they become role model in hygiene practice and take instant initiative to motivate the communities to adopt good hygiene and sanitation behaviors in Kitgum.
Pupils demostrating hand washing at Child Care Primary –Kitgum, Uganda
As an example of a School-led Total Sanitation (SLTS) program, the club empowers children to be the agents of change within their communities by encouraging local families to construct latrines and end the practice of open defecation.
As notice during the implementation Clubs activities has demonstrated significance increased in latrine coverage from 10% to 30% in the school catchments area.
Patricia and her family are in one of the households that took action as a result of the SLTS programmer. Following the death of Patricia’s brother, life for her family was difficult. With return to their original home from the Internally Displaced Camp (IDPs) to support her family had little money available to spend on sanitation supplies. Due to a lack of facilities, the entire family was required to practice open defecation in the surrounding bush.
"I used to be so afraid of going to the latrine, I feared I might sink down in the pit," explained Patricia.
The introduction of SLTS to Kalabong Primary school encouraged Patricia’s family to make a change. Earlier this year, with help from her neighbours, the family began to construct a latrine using local materials. The latrine is now complete and the family uses it on a daily basis.