ABOUT US
About Wogem Uganda
WoGEM Uganda is a Community Based Organization (CBO) dedicated in influencing and promoting women and girl’s participation in greener economy to promote social and economic development.
This idea was brought about by a group of women who sat down and realized the challenges that are faced by women, girls such as gender in equality, fears in women that can lead to lack of confidence in public, lack of respect for caregivers, lack of women in positions of power, early pregnancy , high levels of domestic violence , sexual abuses and denial of human rights , lack of access to equal opportunity like for men , gender power imbalances, lack of oversight, lack of awareness about financial assistance, social-cultural barriers, identifying the available resources, exposed to the training programs, lack of awareness about financial assistance, and knowledge about business administration hence raising forms of injustices being done to women in the country
Ireen Twongirwe - CEO Wogem Uganda
MISSION
To promote a green economy environment for women to manage their social and economic development through advocacy.
VISION
A resilience economic and sustainable green economy for women empowerment in rural areas.
TARGET AUDIENCE
- Universities
- Secondary schools
- Rural women and women leaders
- Un employed women
- Feminists
OBJECTIVES OF WoGEM UGANDA
- To increase reliance on low carbon energy supply to mitigate climate change sustainable land utilization and improve incomes for women and girls to achieve greener resilient and inclusive growth in Uganda.
- To advocate for gender equality, among women and girls, and fight for women emancipation and the girl child. In accordance with United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 5 ,10 ,7 that is Gender equality and affordable clean energy respectively. WoGEM Uganda insists on seeing these come to reality.
- To provide business modelling techniques and guidelines. WoGEM Uganda is mandated with helping women and girls with the dream of joining the business world to develop and kick-start businesses and ideas that are environmentally friendly and financially profitable to the individuals involved.
- To offer financial literacy to vulnerable women and girls in Uganda. WoGEM Uganda will do all it takes to sensitize and encourage the community on the importance of education, healthcare, supporting developmental government programmes like parish Development model (PDM), vision2040, Uganda women entrepreneurship programme (UWEP), Social Assistance Grants (SAGE), participation in government and nongovernmental community based programmes and any other socio economic development programmes that may arise related to finances especially in order to achieve the middle income status among the nationals of Uganda specifically women and the girl child.
To achieve this programme objective, WoGEM Uganda creates public awareness on the importance of investing more in solar energy than fossil fuels like oil and gas. People’s participation and involvement in solar policy decision making processes is very vital in realizing good governance in energy sector.
Wogem Uganda values teamwork and interdisciplinary collaboration as a path to insight and excellence in our work.
Our company’s teams of committed professionals embrace the following objectives: