Friday 14 June 2013

Computer strengthens accountability and service delivery monitoring in Kyegegwa District.

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.

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.

Documented by Kogere Rachael  

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