Uganda Feminist Forum

The Uganda Feminist Forum (UFF) held its inaugural meeting on 17th – 19th January 2008 at the Nile Resort Hotel in Jinja, Uganda. The UFF was born of a number of processes, each aimed at strengthening the effectiveness of the feminist movement both at national and regional levels. It began in 2005 with the Women Leaders and Activists Meeting convened by ActionAid International – Uganda in which a number of challenges obstructing the women’s movement in Uganda were identified as were key strategies for addressing them. Similar reflections were undertaken quite independently in other countries in Africa. In November 2006, The African Women’s Development Fund convened the first regional African Feminist Forum which took place in Accra, Ghana. It brought, to the fore regional perspectives and experiences which lent much needed impetus and focus to the national efforts to rebuild the feminist movement. The UFF 2008 is an outcome of these processes, and seeks to build on them through greater mobilisation of local and national actors, as well as the development of national priorities for building the women’s movement in Uganda.