We, the women market vendors of Arua City represented through cooperatives and associations for a long time, have been invisible despite the challenges we face within and outside the markets. Even though women constitute a greater percentage of market vendors with an estimate of over 70% being at the forefront of informal cross border trade …
STATEMENT: Women Market Vendors in Arua voice their demands Read More »
Photography Credit: SIHA Archives SIHA Network is a regional network that works with urban poor women in shanty, peripheral settlements in addition to internally displaced, migrant women and girls across the greater Horn of Africa. The latest global warnings and protection guidance regarding Coronavirus (COVID-19) has been, in our view, largely a conversation among the …
#MakeHerVisible In an attempt to regulate street vendors in Kampala, Kampala Capital City Authority is in the process of instituting a Street Trade Ordinance, providing legislative framework within which street trade will be organized on the streets of Kampala. Within the ordinance, some of the provisions therein propose street vendors registering with KCCA in order …
In the recent past, Kampala’s pedestrian walkways and streets in the central business district and surrounding areas have been cleared of women street vendors in a brutal, inhumane manner pointing to the lack of empathy, absence of human rights consideration and a lack of appreciation for economic diversity citing a need for organization and orderliness, …
WOMEN IN UGANDA’S INFORMAL ECONOMY ASSERT PROTECTION OF THEIR HUMAN RIGHTS Read More »
#HearMeToo This year, SIHA Network leveraged on the 16 days of activism as an opportune period to bring the #MeToo conversation to the light – attempting to understand how the gender power imbalance creates opportunities for men to prey on women and girls; promotes a society that ridicules the victims; allows the perpetrators to go …
16 days of Activism 2018: Taking it Further – #HearMeToo Read More »
Introduce yourself (Name, organization, and how long you have been involved in activism) Hala Alkarib, an activist and feminist, civil society worker and research practitioner. I am a mother, daughter, sister, and friend. I was born and raised in Sudan and later lived in Canada, Egypt, and Kenya; currently, I’m living and working in Uganda. I have …
1. Introduce yourself (Name, organization, and how long you have been involved in activism) My name is Lyn Ossome and I am a researcher and senior faculty at Makerere University, Kampala. My activist work around women’s rights spans nearly two decades and has taken the form of organizational work and teaching. Nothing I have written …
1. Introduction Peace T.Kyamureku is the Executive Director of Rural Women and Youth Fund Uganda (Ruth Fund); a women rights Not for Profit organization which started in February 2014. She has been involved in activism since 1994, when she started working with the National Association of Women Organisations In Uganda (NAWOU). She is passionate about …
As SIHA Network actively works to facilitate and enable women street vendors in Uganda to leverage the cooperative advantage for their economic empowerment, we would like to congratulate the first women street vendors’ cooperative formed, registered and legislated under the Ministry of Trade, Labor and Cooperatives. Over the years, SIHA has developed deep and …
#HERVOICE – First women street vendors’ cooperative fully registered Read More »
This research paper, The Invisible Labourers of Kampala is the outcome of sequential efforts that were carried out by the SIHA Network across the Horn of Africa, to address the situation of the mass population of women street vendors occupying cities and smaller informal markets across the region. From a historical perspective, vending is one …
LAUNCH OF THE REPORT AND DOCUMENTARY: THE INVISIBLE LABORERS OF KAMPALA Read More »
