TRANET-AFRICA

Mr. Ekakoro Fredrick Etoori with Ms. Connie Nawaigo     On Wednesday the 17 th May 2017, the coordinator of Transformative leaders Network-Africa (TRANET) Mr. Ekakoro Fredrick Etoori hosted the Strategic Programmes Manager Urgent Action Fund-Africa at the TRANET Secretariat in Ntinda, Kampala. UAF-Africa is a pan-African, feminist and rapid response Fund that provides financial and technical resources to women’s rights organizations and activists across Africa who identify and respond to opportunities that advance and protect women’s human rights. During the meeting, Ms. Connie Nawaigo gave an overview of their organization’s activities and mode of operations. Connie who is on a working visit to Uganda intends to identify institutions and individuals for possible strategic partnerships and funding. The aim of the visit was to establish the emerging issues and challenges in the Uganda context and develop networks that would assist in intervention in relation to these issu

The release of Nelson Mandela from prison after 27 years, not only took the world by surprise, but also left a lot more burden to him and his colleagues who were involved in the anti-apartheid struggle to reform the country’s political landscape and the ethnic divides as well the economic quagmire. If his statement , “after climbing a great hill, you realize that there are many more hills to be climbed” is something to go by, we can say that the Transformative Leaders Network- Africa (TRANET AFRICA) has not only climbed another hill, but also set foot to climb more other hills.  In 2008, FOWODE’s LBI alumni came together and formed an association known as the FOWODE Young Leaders Alumni Association (FYLAA) with a vision of a society where the leadership upholds the ideals of social justice and gender equality and set out on a mission to build a strong cadre of young leaders who promote gender equality and social justice through capacity building, advocacy, net-working and res