Uganda: Women Ministers Appeal for More Aid
By Joyce Namutebi

June 19, 2007 – (AllAfica) CONCERNED that 30 million children are not in primary school and that 60% of HIV/Aids cases globally are in the Commonwealth countries, ministers for women's affairs have asked the heads of government to provide sufficient funds for gender equality.

"We have requested the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting to provide adequate funding for gender equality, gender issues and democracy and development," minister Syda Bbumba told journalists after the close of the Eighth Commonwealth Women's Affairs Ministers Meeting on Thursday at Munyonyo.

Uganda is to host 53 Commonwealth heads of government in November. Bbumba said the ministers had also appealed to the heads of government to provide enough funds for implementing local, regional and international agreements that focus on gender issues.

She added that the ministers would influence the Paris declaration on new aid modalities during its review in Ghana next year.

The declaration is an international agreement to which over one hundred ministers committed their countries to increase efforts in harmonisation and managing aid with a set of monitorable actions.

From:http://allafrica.com/stories/200706190043.html