The Imara Girls Festival

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The Imara Girls Festival is an integrated campaign that celebrates the role and contribution of women and girls in advancing development at the national, regional and global levels. The festival brings together key actors in different sectors to celebrate, recognise, inspire and exhibition of works of women and girls that serve as a testament of the role of women in breaking boundaries, and moving beyond the stereotypes. The 2024 Imara Girls Festival will be held on October  12th in Kampala Uganda, with an integrated campaign to support the establishment of the Imara Women’s Center, an initiative to anchor interventions on the advancement of women’s rights over the next 25 years.

About the Imara Women’s Centre.

The Imara Women’s Center (IWC) is a Forum for Women in Democracy initiative to

anchor our work on the advancement of women’s rights over the next 25 years.

FOWODE has acquired 2.3 acres of land to establish this facility that will be a space

for women’s independent organising and a practical base from which to advance the

struggle for gender equality. The center will be a safe and empowering space, for

women’s safety, dignity, voice, and agency, to end violence against women.

Why the Imara Center Matters

Uganda has a relatively progressive normative framework to promote

gender equality, BUT rights & economic transformation are

NOT a reality for women and girls.

• Uganda has increased numbers of women in political leadership and

decision making, BUT there is limited contribution to political effectiveness

and growth of the women’s movement.

•  One in three businesses in Uganda are owned by women, YET Women

are nearly absent from corporate governance.

•  More countries have passed laws to end violence against women,

HOWEVER, Violations continue and new forms have emerged online.