International Organizations on women empowerment In Uganda; A Case of UN Women in Wakiso District

Abstract

Women empowerment is majorly about self-esteem, awareness, consciousness and confidence while focusing on participation into decision making and challenges oppression and inequality Thus, women empowerment reduces vulnerability, decreases dependency, implies action not passivity, and means being at the center, not on the periphery. The main objective of the study was to assess the impact of international organizations on women empowerment in Uganda and the specific ones were; i) to identify interventions towards women empowerment, ii) roles of international organisations in women empowerment, and iii) the relationship between international organisations and women empowerment. In this study, the positivist paradigm was adopted, and hence a cross sectional survey. The population was women that reside in Kasanje sub county, Wakiso district. The district and Sub County were purposively sampled, parishes were sampled using simple random sampling, Villages sampled using simple random and households using convenience sampled. Structured interviews and structured questionnaires were the data collection methods and tools used. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, bivariate regression and multi-variate regression in SPSS version 21.0.

International organisations/ Un women provide training to women (79%), mentor women and improves their opinions (69%), The analytical findings showed that women who had gotten support from UN women believed to have improved on their knowledge on resource ownership and were less likely to be to be caught un aware of their rights in reference to resource ownership (AOR = 0.590, CI = 0.238 - 0.887). Women who had engaged with UN women were three times more likely to be better in decision-making (AOR = 3.497, CI = 1.093 - 11.188) while those who had accessed their trainings and education were more empowered in terms of education were four times more likely to be empowered (AOR = 4.170, CI = 2.036 - 10.798) and another of those involved with services of UN women were two times more likely to be politically empowered (AOR = 2.712, CI = 1.701 - 4.453). Conclusion: There is need to increase efforts on the services and intervention on UN women and other international organisations to raise statistically significant improvements in the lives and empowerment of women, there is also need to engage men in women empowerment process