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Government Programmes in Uganda - Ministry of Health This is originally an NGO activity which has been brought into the main stream of the Ministry of Health. The Initiative is a community-based intervention that aims at mobilizing the community to increase awareness of safe motherhood practices including family planning. The initiative trains both male and female counsellors. The Government, through the Ministry of Health, has evolved a policy of providing informal family planning education to the communities through various programmes. The Family Planning Association of Uganda has a policy of ensuring that all Ugandans get equal access to family planning services. This has been achieved by ensuring that all clinics, hospitals and sensitisation communities provide for family planning. Photovoltaic project for rural electrification-Uganda (UPPPRE) Uganda’s rural electrification strategy was aimed at reducing inequalities in access to electricity and associated limits on the opportunities for increased social well-being, education, health and income generation. Some of the institutional systems have been installed in collaboration with the Ministry of Health and local government agencies to provide clinic lighting and vaccine refrigeration. During the implementation stage, special efforts were made to encourage women entrepreneurs to purchase solar systems by offering credit through a women’s bank. Women were involved as electricians, installers and researchers in the design phase. During the implementation stage, the project particularly targeted women by involving the Uganda Women’s Finance Trust in a special lending programme for the purchase of solar photovoltaic (PV) systems. Another strategy for gender sensitivity was to promote a woman to the post
of Assistant Project Manager.
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