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My Idea, My Enterprise (MIME)
Creation of a Business Development Center for the creation and strengthening of tourism ventures.
Girls are not weak!
Expiration: December 1, 2019Because of the recent financial crisis the main victim in our society was a girl and a woman. A large number of girls and women are not employed, they have no job, they stay at home all the times, although some of them have completed their education but the government doesn’t have a plan to employ them and the majority of them or may be all of them are disadvantage people, sometimes they get insults and bad treatment from their families; as a result they feel that their life is meaningless. The course that we plan to open will empower the young women in rural area to be agents of change in their communities and across all the country. The program will try to strengthen their educational abilities by teaching them English language so that they will be able to find job opportunities in government and at non-government organizations. During the course the girls will try to participate in community services as much as possible. The program also will seek to increase sex equality and decrease violence against women.
The participants will be around 20 girls and women; some of them are new graduated and others have been graduated previous years, their age is between 22 – 30 years old, they will come from different villages and places around Deralok, our hometown that is located in the north of Duhok city and is almost 80 Km away from the city center. The course will last for a year; three days a week and two hours each day, in addition to some contests and other activities just to give them a kind of hope to go on with their life. There will be a break for a month. Thus the total time that will be spent for the course is 11 months, at the end of the course there will be a graduation party.
LGBTI Bllod Donation Advocavcy campaign
Expiration: April 10, 2018CONCEPT NOTE
LGBT BLOOD DONATION CAMPAIGN
CONCEPT TITLE;
FIGHTING HOMOPHOBIA IN UGANDA THROUGH THE LGBT BLOOD DONATION CAMPAIGN
Theme for the Blood Donation Campaign;
SAVING LIFE IS MY RESPONSIBILITY, IT’S NOT ABOUT WHO I AM
1.0 Background;
Today the documented number of LGBT people in Uganda has grown from 763,890 to 2,598,456 and more are coming out of the closet because there are mechanisms that support their human rights. However, despite this steady growth, LGBT people continue to face a lot of persecution because of their sexual orientation and gender identity.
Hate for LGBT people has been favored by the presence of cultural and religious beliefs, notions and assumptions that homosexuality is immoral, unnatural, unAfrican and satanic and so LGBT people have been branded as immoral, insane, wicked, social misfits, recruiters of children into homosexuality, pedophiles and satanic. Because of those brandings, LGBT people are beaten in public and social places, abused and insulted, evicted from houses, attacked along roads and burnt, disowned by parents and banished from homes, denied education, subjected to corrective rape, cruelly arrested by police, brutally beaten and imprisoned without trial and society avoids them.
Further, it is those brandings and assumptions that have led Ugandan legislators to develop laws that criminalize homosexuality with death penalty as they appear in the Penal Code, the Constitution and the nullified deadly Anti Homosexuality Act 2014. Such torturous and criminalizing conditions have traumatized many LGBT people and made them homeless with some mentally broken down languishing in extreme poverty, loneliness, disease and pain while surviving on unprotected sex work. Their talents and giftedness are lost in trauma.
The gravity of torture for LGBT people was summed up in a 2014 report dubbed ‘From Torment to Tyranny’ which exhibited that currently, in every four months, 162 cases of persecution of LGBT people are recorded and the problem is increasing. It is because of this unfriendly situation that Uganda was branded the worst place to be gay by the Independent Magazine in 2014.
Several strategies by human rights groups and individuals have been devised including education sessions and dialogues but homophobia seems persistent, that is why UCAAUG has creatively come up with the LGBT blood donation campaign as one of the successful means to lessen homophobia while closing the knowledge and social gaps between LGBT and non-LGBT people.
On 6th January 2018 a shortage of blood supply was reported in Ugandan hospitals by Uganda Blood Transfusion Services and was causing a lot of preventable deaths especially among women and children. The shortage of blood has been attributed to people abandoning blood donation and so there is a great outcry for blood. UCAA-UG wants to respond to this outcry by mobilizing LGBT people for a 3 days blood donation exercise which will help undo the myths that LGBT is contagious, LGBT people are insane and useless and will portray LGBT people as responsible citizens of Uganda and the problems that affect other Ugandans affect them too. We are more optimistic that this life saving drive will change attitudes of very many homophobic Ugandans and appeal to their feelings to tolerate and peacefully co-exist with LGBT people.
1.1 Why the LGBT blood donation campaign;
In the past, health strategies have proved successful in advancing human rights for LGBT people in Uganda and creating friendly spaces in the health sector for LGBT people to access health services especially HIV/AIDS and treatment of STIs and other diseases. In most government health centers like Mulago National Referral Hospital, MARPI Clinic has been set up and fully facilitated to treat LGBT people and anal infections.
Given that historical breakthrough while using the health sector, we believe the LGBT blood donation campaign which is part of the health strategies will be a great breakthrough in creating interactions between LGBT and non-LGBT people, undo several stereotypes that block interaction between LGBT and non-LGBT people and cause aggression towards LGBT people. The blood donation campaign which is a great life saving campaign has come at a crucial time when there is a blood crisis in the country and so it will touch the hearts of very many Ugandans at all levels including religious leaders who command big crowds to stop preaching hate for LGBT people and we are more than confident that this blood donation campaign will greatly break the ice of LGBT intolerance in Uganda.
Nature of the campaign
The LGBT blood donation campaign is an advocacy strategy targeting to change attitude of society towards LGBT people, bridge the gap between LGBT people and non-LGBT people and undo stereotypes about LGBT people which all are causing aggression towards LGBT people. The method through which those targets will be achieved is as below;
The blood donation campaign will be participated in by 200 LGBT people who will donate blood for 2 days from 29th-30th March 2018. The participants shall be those who are comfortable with the media and they will be divided into 2 groups for the two days, so each day we shall have 100 LGBT people donating blood. Since we target to change attitude and bridge the gap between LGBT people and non-LGBT, we shall have 20 nonLGBT blood donors participating in the campaign and these will be mainly religious leaders because our core work as UCAA-UG is advocacy around changing attitude of religious leaders who command big crowds but preach a lot of hate for LGBT people.
The 20 participants will help to testify to the public that LGBT is not contagious; one does not become LGBT by being in company with LGBT. They will also help to show that LGBT people are not aggressive and are sociable. Religious leaders are expected to dialogue with other religious leaders about tolerance of LGBT people.
The exercise for collecting blood will be performed by the Uganda Blood Transfusion Services (UBTS) a government entity that is entrusted the responsibility of nationwide blood transfusion. This will help us be able to lobby further the Ministry of Health and the government about decriminalizing LGBT people. To this, the chief guest to the blood donation campaign will be the Minister of Health Honorable Jane Aceng and she will be tasked to give an opening speech to the blood donation exercise and we will request her to stress the importance of non-discrimination and human rights as well as the great contribution of sexual minorities to the health sector. The blood donation campaign will run under a theme; Saving Life Is My Responsibility, It’s not About Who I Am and speeches will be tailored to suit this theme.
There will be three tents; one tent will be for blood donation, one with counselors and the other will be a waiting tent for those coming to donate blood. Each of the three tens shall have a banner displayed before it with the name of the activity, the name of the organizer of the campaign and the theme of the campaign;
Emprendimiento Sostenible un Camino POsible
Expiration: August 18, 20182. Descripción del problema.
El emprendimiento es el eje fundamental del crecimiento económico en la región latinoaméricana por tanto un indicativo de que “la economía está bien, esta en si se puede emprender bien”, pues si se bloquea el emprendimiento y con esto la competencia en el mercado, se cierra a sí misma la posibilidad de seguir creciendo. “Esto es un error que en el continente ya ha ocurrido”. Sobre todo en nuestro país Venezuela.
Ahora mas que nunca en medio de esta profunda crisis que presenta Venezuela el emprendimiento emerge como una herramienta poderosa para la ayuda de la economía, pero también para el empoderamiento de las personas, el reconocimiento a la mujer y hasta el factor democrático que debe potenciar un país.
Teniendo en cuenta lo anterior, es importante resaltar que el emprendimiento aflora como la alternativa para promover el desarrollo en nuestro país, la creación de ideas innovadoras y la elección de emprender como proyecto de vida hace que la economía de muchas familias se mantenga estable y mejore la calidad de vida de la población en general.
Con este programa se pretende lograr en los participantes una visión sistémica de las organizaciones, del proceso de lanzamiento de nuevas iniciativas y su vinculación con el contexto, que le permita al nuevo emprendedor o emprendedora tener bases firmes para la toma decisiones transcendentales, facilitando la generación de confianza en el propio participante para que aprenda a hacer un mejor uso de sus recursos personales y profesionales, desarrollar competencias genéricas, diseñar e implementar equipos de trabajo dinámicos e interdisciplinarios.
El surgimiento de nuevas iniciativas emprendedoras es uno de los factores más importantes en la reactivación económica/social de un país; encaminándolo a una cultura sostenible y sustentable para ello se requiere personas orientadas al logro así como a la colaboración; es decir talento humano con alta autoestima, habilidades sociales y cualidades como: pasión por el quehacer, visión de futuro, fijación de metas, capacidad de innovar, aceptación de riesgos calculados, facilidad para adaptase a los cambios del entorno y fluir en la incertidumbre, trabajo en equipo, honestidad, son estos individuos, que juntos, multiplicando sus saberes y dando el ejemplo con su hacer los que promueven valores ciudadanos que construyen un país.
A partir de estas reflexiones, surge ésta propuesta integral de formación y capacitación, cuyo eje central es fortalecer el espíritu, así como la capacidad emprendedora; en ella subyacen los postulados que emergen del pensamiento y la acción latinoamericana, representado por filósofos y educadores en emprendimiento, como Humberto Maturana, Fernando Flores, Rafael Echeverria, entre muchos otros; de igual forma se toma en consideración las experiencias y aprendizajes generados en el Sistema de Apoyo a la Creación de Empresas de Venezuela (SACEV), programa auspiciado por la Corporación Andina de Fomento y Fundación Ideas. Este programa subsume muchas de la experiencias citadas, pero fundamentalmente el trabajo realizado en conjunto, en varios estados en instituciones, durante algún tiempo con la Fundación Casimiro gracias al apoyo de la Embajada de los Estado Unidos de Venezuela en Caracas. Está enfocado a potenciar actitudes movilizadoras hacia el emprendimiento, reuniendo temas relacionados al ser emprendedor; de igual forma, se incorpora conocimientos técnicos vinculados con el diseño de planes de negocio y su factibilidad de ejecución. Completando el conjunto de los momentos en alianza con actores locales. Otra variable que vale la pena destacar, es que este programa es promovido por un participante del Programa de Lideres Visitantes de la Embajada de los Estados Unidos en Venezuela, a partir de la experiencia vividas al visitar mas de decenas de universidad americanas y de compartir espacios de emprendimiento en colegas latinoamericanos también invitados a dicho programa.
La propuesta de formación se estructura en seis momentos de aprendizaje:
1. CAMBIO DE MIRADA / ACTITUD EMPRENDEDORA
2. CREATIVIDAD PARA LA INNOVACION
3. MAPA DE NEGOCIOS
4. DIALOGO, NEGOCIACION Y ACUERDO
5. REDES Y MERCADEO DIGITAL
6. EL “CIUDADANO” EMPRENDEDOR
3. Objetivos:
• Potenciar las competencias emprendedoras en los participantes, a objeto de impulsar la conformación de iniciativas socio-productivas.
• Dar continuidad a la inversiòn y el trabajo realizado desde hace varios años en el tema de emprendimiento por parte de la Embajada de los Estados Unidos y la Fundacion Casimiro
• Brindar oportunidad a nuevos emprendedores por necesidad, a canalizar sus esfuerzos y lograr consolidar iniciativas que brinden calidad de vida
• Reconocer el rol protagonico de la mujer en los espacios productivos
• Valorar los factores democràticos necesarios para el crecimiento de una sociedad desde su desarrollo econòmico.
• Reconocer las facultades del emprendedor en el modelo de los valores ciudadanos, el emprendedor como promotor de ciudadania.
• Valorar la lugarización como elemento gatillador de las provincias en el desarrollo del pais.
• Incorporación de egresados de los programas de la Embajada, Programa de Lideres Visitantes, y otros, a la ejecución como organizadores, aliados y/o voceros experienciales en las actividades
Pakistani Sports Visitor and Fulbright Alumna Wins on and off the Field
Sana Mahmud is a team captain, role model, and leader for girls and youth in Pakistan. Her exchange experiences gave her the opportunity to pursue her passion for using sports to foster social change and empowerment.
Ugandan Fellow selected for Queen's Young Leaders Award
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Elizabeth Kasujja is a 2017 Mandela Washington Fellow who was nurtured at Drake University in Iowa. The Queen’s Young Leaders’ Awards program celebrates exceptional young people aged 18 to 29 from across the Commonwealth and the work they are undertaking to improve lives across a diverse range of issues. Elizabeth was chosen for her work with Clear Yo Mind focused on raising awareness for mental health, and serving people dealing with depression by connecting them to professional help.
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Access Alumni Mini-grant Program
Expiration: February 7, 2018The Access Alumni Mini-grant Program awards financial and logistic assistance to Access alumni teams embarking on delivering innovative public service projects. The awarding process is highly selective, and only teams of at least 10 Access alumni are eligible to apply. The program ran from January 2016 to July 2017, and it has been re-opened since January 2018 to continue supporting creative initiatives aimed at generating positive change in the local communities.