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| ELEC/Edukans and RWECO staff at RWECO in Kasese district |
Rwenzori Consortium for Civic Competence (RWECO) in
conjunction with her campaign of improving literacy and English proficiency
levels of 9,000 pupils from Kasese and Kabarole in three years hosted a team of
five from Local Expertise Centre (LEC) and the Edukans foundation from the Netherlands on 16 August 2012 at RWECO Offices, Kasese municipality. RWECO is a
consortium of 4 NGOs whose mission is: to enhance citizens civic competence to demand for voice and
accountability in governance and service delivery through meaningful and
principled engagement between citizens and the state . The team that comprised of staff from LEC and Edukans Foundations had come to carry out an assessment of the EPP project
using the Edukans Assessment tool (EAT). The project that aims at enhancing communication
skills in 30 primary schools in the two districts, 2 primary teacher training colleges and 6
secondary schools.
The assessment exercise that was conducted according
to three categories of management, programme and finance focused on the
following aspects. Vision, mission and strategy, how the statement is shared,
made known to all relevant levels, translation of strategy into implementation,
external relations assessment of the impact caused on the target groups, the
legal status of the organization composition of the Board and its gender
responsiveness in terms of representation and staffing. It was clear that out
of the ten Board members only one was a woman mean while out of the seven staff
at CU three were ladies the question was however, what was their level in terms of decision making at the
organization and their involvement in programme work.
The team that split into three then converged in the
Board room together with the RWECO staff to share their findings and showing
some areas of concern . Finally the team was hosted to a dinner at White Hotel
Gardens in Kasese Municipality where further discussions on the project and
general issues of development dominated the evening.
By Agnes Kyakimwa
RWECO
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