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OUR PARTNER //

OUR CHAPTER //

GlobeMed at Columbia University

GWED-G

New York, New York

Gulu, Uganda

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GEOGRAPHY

WHAT ARE THE TYPICAL MODES OF TRANSPORTATION IN THE COUNTRY AND COMMUNITY?

UgandagulU district

ARE YOU LIVING IN THE SAME COMMUNITY AS THE BENEFICIARIES OF YOUR PROJECT?

Gulu

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Yes.

Most people take motorbikes called “bodas” everywhere. Our GROW team travels in a rented car to go to the field. There are

some taxis that are minivans that fit a lot of people - not at all like a NYC yellow cab. Lots of people bike and walk around town

and to work if they don’t live too far.

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RELIGION:

TRADITIONAL DIET:

TYPICAL MALE JOB:

PARTNER COUNTRY: Uganda PARTNER COMMUNITY: Gulu

CLIMATE:

LANGUAGE:

MAJOR INDUSTRY:

WHAT IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE LIKE IN THE COMMUNITY?

DO MANY PEOPLE HAVE ACCESS TO CELL PHONES, COMPUTERS, AND OTHER

FORMS OF TECHNOLOGY?

WHAT ARE THE GENDER DYNAMICS IN YOUR PARTNER COMMUNITY?

POPULATION:

TYPICAL FEMALE JOB:

LANGUAGE:

RELIGION:

POPULATION:English, Swahili

Agriculture

Christianity

34 million

154,300

Wet and dryseasons

Christianity

Luo

Agricultural worker

Agricultural worker

Rice, beans, posho

Most places have electricity, although power outages are common, but running water is less frequently found.

Most buildings are built with concrete or brick with metal roofs. Most homes are located in gated compounds,where several families share a compound. Outside of town, there are traditional huts that have circular

concrete bases with a thatched roof.

A lot of maize, greens, groundnuts, and cassava. Fruit is everywhere, though it’s not grown as a crop. Meals

are mostly starches - posho (a kind of really dense bread made from maize flour), rice, beans, sweet potatoes,

cassava, plantains, and irish potatoes - with some stir-fried greens and occasionally meat.

It is very patriarchal. Women are expected to marry, have children, and take care of the homestead. Men are

allowed to have multiple partners, and gender-based violence is a huge problem in villages. When you

conduct field visits and meetings to mixed gender groups, men will always separate themselves and sit on

stools or otherwise elevated seating, while the women will sit on grass mats.

Most people in town and at least a few people in every village have cell phones. Only a few senior people

working in town (at NGOs usually) have their own computer, though there are usually office computers.

Internet and phone airtime are bought by pay-as-you-go credits, and often, people will run out of internet or

airtime and will be unreachable. Electricity also often goes out, so it’s hard to charge your electronics.

WHAT ARE THE MAJOR CROPS GROWN IN THE COMMUNITY?

DEMOGRAPHICS

MAJOR CROPS GROWN: Maize, greens,

groundnuts, cassava

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ARE THERE ANY INTERESTING NATIONAL PARKS, ARBORETUMS, OR OTHER NATURAL SITES IN THE COMMUNITY OR COUNTRY?

ARE THERE ANY MUSEUMS IN THE COMMUNITY OR COUNTRY THAT YOU FOUND INTERESTING?

ARE THERE ANY CULTURAL EVENTS OR HOLIDAYS THAT ARE CELEBRATED DURING YOUR GROW INTERNSHIP?

ARE THERE ANY OTHER CULTURAL ACTIVITIES THAT YOU RECOMMEND?

IS IT SAFE FOR GROW TEAMS TO ATTEND AND TRAVEL TO THESE SITES WITHOUT A

REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE PARTNER ORGANIZATION?

Points of Interest

CULTURE

Murchison Falls National Park.

There aren’t many museums -- just a small one under construction at the Acholi King’s Palace.

They shouldn’t go out at night without someone from the partner organization, but we went

on a safari that was arranged by our partner by ourselves safely. It’s more of a problem of not

knowing Luo or how to negotiate prices and transport or how to navigate around town

without a local, not safety.

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No.

Visiting the cultural leaders was a really eye-opening experience. We were

supposed to go see a traditional dance performance at a local art center that

was really awesome according to the UNC GROW team. There were also poetry

slams at the art center, which we wanted to go to but didn’t have time.

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Organizational Details

WHAT IS THE GREATEST CHALLENGE YOUR PARTNER ORGANIZATION CURRENTLY FACES?

Location: Gulu, Uganda

Important Questions

HOW DO STAFF AT YOUR PARTNER ORGANIZATION PERCEIVE GLOBEMED?

WHAT WOULD BE MISSING FROM THE COMMUNITY IF YOUR PARTNER ORGANIZATION DIDN’T EXIST?

TRANSPORTATION TO

PARTNER ORGANIZATION:

FULL-TIME

EMPLOYEES:

FULL-TIME

VOLUNTEERS:

PEOPLE IMPACTED

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TARGET POPULATION:

ORGANIZATION’S POPULARITY:

ORGANIZATION’S OTHER PARTNERS:

17

many

150,000

Women, children, and families

ICC Trust Fund for Victims, CARE, Amnesty International,

ACORD, UK AID, Norwegian government, UK government,

ARC, UNFPA, UN Women, Ugandan government, IDF, and

the Open Society Institute

Walk. It’s very close, within 5 minutes.

Funding -- many of their funders are pulling out of Uganda now that the war has been over for some years. Lack of infrastructure --

there’s difficulty getting to villages to deliver their interventions because of no organizational field vehicle but also because of bad

roads in northern Uganda.

Even though we’re one of their smaller donors, they really appreciate the fact that we’re their partner and that we’re students. The

GWED-G staff  is like a family, and they really consider our chapter to be part of their office family. They definitely see that we want

our partnership to be diff erent from their relationship with other donors, so they value our personal relationship as much as our

professional one.

Some fierce change warriors. But really, GWED-G’s model of engaging “duty bearers,” communities, and both genders in addressing

issues of women’s rights, human rights, health, and post-conflict development is a uniquely comprehensive model of exceptional

impact. Their explicit focus on women and children is a forceful assertion of the importance of women to Uganda’s development thatfew other organizations have enshrined in name or mission statement. I don’t know what all the other NGOs in northern Uganda do,

but I know GWED-G’s programs are changing minds and changing lives, or, as they like to say, changing attitudes and behaviors.

PARTNER ORGANIZATION

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Well-known and respected by the

community

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NGOS

IS THERE A MINISTRY OF HEALTH BRANCH IN YOUR PARTNER COMMUNITY?

IS THERE A CENTRAL NGO MANAGEMENT OFFICE IN THE COMMUNITY OR THE COUNTRY?

Public Infrastructure

SCHOOLS

LAW ENFORCEMENT

BANKS

POST OFFICES

PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION

Important Constituents in the Community

CULTURAL OR COMMUNITY GROUPS

COMMUNITY ASSETS

Very many primary schools, fewer

secondary schools, and even fewer

universities.

Fairly prominent in town. There are

police barracks near GWED-G

offices, and occasionally you see

men in police uniforms drive by.

We saw one large post office.

Bodas and a few taxis.

Yes, there are lots of banks in town that take

Visa cards.

Cultural leaders of the Acholi people have

pretty significant influence on public and

private aff airs. The King of the Acholi people

has his palace in Gulu, and there are chiefs

of several clans that live around Gulu.

Church communities also play a huge role inday to day life of people.

We met people from Health Alert and ARC

and heard a lot about TASO and Caritas. UN

vehicles are everywhere.

Yes.

Not sure. I know there’s a central office GWED-G needs to register at to be officially consideredan NGO, and the local government definitely keeps tracks of all the NGOs working in the area.

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WHAT HAS BEEN GLOBEMED’S MOST SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTION TO YOUR PARTNER

ORGANIZATION TO DATE?

WHAT IS YOUR PARTNER ORGANIZATION’S GREATEST PROGRAMMATIC NEED?

WHAT DO YOU THINK ARE THE POSSIBILITIES FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP?

DO YOU SEE ANY OPPORTUNITIES FOR COLLABORATION WITH OTHER LOCAL OR

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS OR INSTITUTIONS?

CAN THE GLOBEMED NATIONAL OFFICE SUPPORT MORE COLLABORATION BETWEEN YOUR

PARTNER ORGANIZATION AND OTHER ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS?

Reflection and Planning

GENERAL OBSERVATIONS

I think connecting our partner organization to GlobeMed’s extended network of other partner

organizations, universities, donors, personal connections, and passionate, talented, young people

has been the most significant contribution. We can plug them into networks of resources they

wouldn’t be able to access otherwise. We can act as ambassadors of their work in the US and

amplify their advocacy with our technological and university resources.

Their greatest need is a vehicle (or two). We’ve discussed it many times, but our chapter doesn’t

have the capacity to fundraise for a vehicle. We’re trying to connect GWED-G to corporate

foundations or larger scale donations through Powered by Action.

Our chapter is expanding its network at Columbia to institutions that have a lot of symmetry with

our project or GWED-G and could be great partners for GWED-G’s other programs. We also want

to start reaching out to larger corporations and foundations to start tackling the bigger needs that

our chapter doesn’t have the capacity to support.

GWED-G already has many partners in government, international organizations, and local

institutions. We’ve connected them to quite a few other NGOs and university departments that

will hopefully lead to fruitful expansions. GWED-G just lacks partners in the private sector or

donors willing to fund big-ticket organizational capacity building which we want to address this

year.

It would be cool if NatO could feature partner organizations more in their social media,publications, or public speaking events. It’d also be useful if we could be a little more informed

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MEDIA AND RESOURCES

MEDIA

BLOGS

PHOTOS

VIDEOS

RESOURCES

PARTNER

ANNUAL

REPORT

MOU

ADDITIONAL

WEBSITES

PROJECT

PUBLICATIONS

Columbia Wordpress

SmugMug

Vimeo

GWED-G Website

2011-2012

2010-2011

Uganda Rising Trailer

GlobalGiving

GlobeMed at Columbia -- Facebook

GWED-G Facebook

GlobeMed at Columbia --Quarterly Report

(Sept - Nov 2011)

HIV/AIDS Quarterly Report (July-Sept 2011)

Stories of Change Newsletter (Aug 2011)

Income-generation & Goat Raising Outcomes

(2010)

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MOVIE

Any final tips for future GROW teams?

Bring lots of bug spray, snacks from home that you’ll miss, and some

nicer clothes besides field clothes for social events.