{"id":8540,"date":"2023-03-25T13:36:42","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T13:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=8540"},"modified":"2023-03-25T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2023-03-25T13:36:49","slug":"mityana-women-should-embrace-technology-for-economic-development-minister-nabakooba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/mityana-women-should-embrace-technology-for-economic-development-minister-nabakooba\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>MITYANA WOMEN SHOULD EMBRACE TECHNOLOGY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT-MINISTER NABAKOOBA<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By Our Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In Mityana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lands&nbsp; Minister &nbsp;Judith Nabakooba Nalule has called upon the &nbsp;women in Mityana to embrace new technologies as a way to foster development and wealth creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speaking at an event organised by women in Mityana to celebrate the women&#8217;s month, March 2023, Nabakooba said the new technologies would help women in their day-to-day work which in turn would help improve their livelihoods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" data-attachment-id=\"8542\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/mityana-women-should-embrace-technology-for-economic-development-minister-nabakooba\/naba2-4\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/naba2.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,720\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"naba2\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/naba2.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/naba2.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/naba2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-8542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/naba2.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/naba2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/naba2.jpg 768w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/naba2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI encourage the women of Mityana to embrace the new technologies. These technologies will help you in your day-to-day work which will help you improve your livelihoods. The internet has many platforms which can feed you with useful knowledge in agriculture and business and even trade among others,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year\u2019s &nbsp;Women\u2019s Day was celebrated globally under the theme: Digital: Innovation and technology for gender equality. Nabakooba &nbsp;told her audience about the &nbsp;new $217m (Sh803b) World Bank funded project that was launched by President Museveni on March 8-that will facilitate women economic &nbsp;growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>She explained that the project is meant to support and uplift women in business to thrive and become better breadwinners for their families.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The minister also encouraged women in Mityana to take advantage of the Parish Development Model saying the money involved is also meant to uplift people out of poverty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMityana is one of the districts that has so far received some money for the Parish Development Model. I encourage you to take advantage of this money so you improve your livelihoods,\u201d she said, adding that the district has about 35 percent of its population living below the poverty line, which is not desirable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nabakooba who urged the women to work hard- donated hand hoes. She said these would be a good tool in fighting poverty in the district. She thanked President Museveni for his efforts to support programmes that empower women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor :msserwanga@gmail.com<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Reporter In Mityana Lands&nbsp; Minister &nbsp;Judith Nabakooba Nalule has called upon the &nbsp;women in Mityana to embrace new<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[297],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-women-economic-growth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/naba-3.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6039,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/minister-nabakooba-mobilises-women-in-mityana-to-benefit-from-govts-parish-development-model-program\/","url_meta":{"origin":8540,"position":0},"title":"MINISTER NABAKOOBA MOBILISES WOMEN IN MITYANA TO BENEFIT FROM GOVT&#8217;S PARISH DEVELOPMENT MODEL PROGRAM","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"June 26, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Lands Minister has been in Mityana district mobilizing hundreds of women to embrace the new government's Parish Model Development (PMD) program to fight poverty at the household level . 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