We, the Trailblazer consortium of women with disabilities Uganda(COWODDU) Uganda, driven by the values of unity, transparency, love, sharing, integrity, good time management, peace and harmony, and spirituality; desiring to create a common voice for our social, economic, and political emancipation; considering that women with disabilities have for long faced double discrimination; realizing the conducive political environment prevailing in Uganda; working in close collaboration with the general disability and women’s organizations; a forum was convened in November 2023 to review the status of women with disabilities in development, leadership and business since 2023, and to, accordingly, forge a way forward; and that the forum instituted an interim committee to, inter alia, draft a constitution for the proposed women’s organization; DO hereby, in and through this general assembly, propose to adopt this constitution of the Trailblazer Consortium of Women with Disabilities Uganda (COWODDU) this 16th day of September in the year of our Lord, 2023.
Lobbying meetings were held with strategic partners to discuss ways of working together to
implement activities for inclusion of GWWDs in their programs. Also peer groups were set up to
carry out sex education and SRH rights in primary and secondary schools. Students and teachers
were trained and encouraged to meet regularly and update COWODDU about developments in
their school communities. Furthermore LC 1 committee members in Gomba district were
sensitized to create awareness on SRHR of GWWDs among local council one leaders; sensitised
them on the sexual offences against GWWDs; sensitised them on their legal mandate when
dealing with those sexual offences; and enabled them to understand the challenges GWWDs face
in the justice, law and order sector when they are sexually abused. District officials in Buyende,
Nebbi and Gomba were sensitized to about the SRH challenges of GWWDs to stimulate
planning and align it to disability friendliness. District officials were positive about integration of
disability in their plans and promised to support PWDs.
Stay updated! Subscribe to the ELISA weekly newsletter.