National Association of Women Organisations in Uganda (NAWOU)

Current Challenges of NAWOU:

Classifying strategic concerns of women of Uganda that are not covered by other actors.
Commitment and ownership of members to the organization.
Strengthening district networks and empowering district executive members with the knowledge and the skills to effectively reach the grassroots community based organizations.
Strengthening communication and information flow within and between district networks.
The funding of NAWOU's operational costs.
Insufficient funding of core activities.
Improving communication, documentation of activities and concerns of women at grassroots, national, regional and international levels.
Proper monitoring mechanisms for a growing NAWOU, in order to keep focused and sustained.

2001-2004 Areas of Concern to Deal with:

Addressing community based organizations members' practical and strategic needs and interests.
Capacity building of NAWOU secretariat, the National Executive Committee, of National and grassroots members through their district networks and NGOs.
Influencing strategic alliance building through lobbying and advocacy.
Monitoring, evaluation, analysis, learning and documentation.
Sharing lessons learnt through communication.
Resource development, fund development and sustainability.

Specific Goals:

Organizational Development - NAWOU will improve on her organizational structures at all levels for efficient service delivery for all her members.
Needs of CBOs - Addressing both strategic and practical needs of CBOs.
Influence and Advocacy - Building strong relationship with NAWOU partners in development both at district, national, regional and international levels.
Evaluation - Putting in place an effective analysis of programs, documentation, communication, monitoring, and evaluation system.
Capacity building - Building capacity of secretariat, NEC, NGOs and CBOs to improve the status of members.

Moving Forward: