Rural monitors in Kyegegwa district have strengthened
their accountability and service delivery monitoring activities in Mpara Sub
County, Kyegegwa District through more documentation and sharing of service
delivery and accountability issues affecting their sub county using computer technologies, “as a Forum
Group, we have improved our advocacy skills through sharing our service
delivery issues with other members in the Rwenzori Region. The lap top has also
helped us to document in an organized way issues affecting the community and
send them to the concerned leaders.” Says Musana James, the Chairperson of
Citizens in Action for Development Forum in Mpara Sub County, Kyegegwa
District.
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| L-R: Musana receiving a computer fromToroDev staff |
Citizens in Action for Development Forum is a
rural advocacy forum initiated by rural monitors In Mpara Sub County with
support from ToroDev to monitor service delivery, demand accountability and
improve the participation of local citizens in governance.
In May 2013, ToroDev with support from SPIDER
gave the advocacy forum a computer to strengthen it advocacy activities in
service delivery monitoring and accountability http://torodev.co.ug/advocacy-forums-receive-computers/
In addition to monitoring service delivery,
the computer has also helped local citizens in the sub county get computer
skills and skills in documentation for advocacy, “The laptop has helped us to
share computer skills with other rural monitors who do not have computer
knowledge. We have also shared skills of using different web tools like
Ushahidi, twitter and face book, and as I talk, six people are using the laptop
to document stories that they get from monitoring service delivery by our local
leaders.” Says Kagama Wilson, a member of Citizens in Action for Development
Forum in Mpara Sub County, Kyegegwa District.
To scale up their advocacy campaigns in
service delivery monitoring and accountability, local citizens are also using
the computer to document and share their stories with local journalists for
broadcasting on FM radio “We have been able to share our information with the
local journalists and this has improved our advocacy. This has also improved
our image as rural monitors as the rest of the world gets to know about the
services that we are sacrificing to serve the community.” Says Twine Godfrey, a
member of Citizens in Action Development Forum in Mpara Sub County, Kyegegwa
District.
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