[WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 26, Issue 53
Dear friends, I will not write thesis on the problems in West Nile region as most of us are aquanted with most of these challenges. I will only pick two issue for my commends a) Education. In the last ten years we have all watched academic standards in the entire region decline without taking any action to remediate the qaulity of education, which is a foundation for any sustainable development. Schools like Ombaci, Koboko, Mvara, Nyapea, etc which used to sign just like other schools around Kampala have been shading off their glory. Where is the source of the disease? When do we start to treat the patient, from symptoms or when he/she is almost reaching the grave or when he/she still can lift up his/her head? (i) Where do our election andidates stand on the issue of decline on eduacation in the region? What is their strategy to reverse the problem? (ii) UPE has boosted school enrollment to a point where teachers are stretched to the limit, which innevitably erodes qaulity of teaching, coathing, mentoring students to be successful. What will our elected representatives do to address the problem of over crowding in the classrooms? (iii) Many years ago, in the 70s/80s, there used to be Inspectors from the Ministry of Education who would visit schools and ensure that teachers are teaching to the professional stardands they are trained to have. Who has dropped the ball and what will our elected representatives do to ensure supervision of schools is enforced? (b) Health Delivery & Public Health (i) Although many health centers have been built throughout the region, most of these health centers have no drugs. Some including two in my constituency have not been opened for the last five (5) years. Yet the govenment spends billions of dollars for ordering drugs and distributes these drugs to the regions or districts. Why is there such drug shortage in the hospitals or health centers in West Nile region? Where do the drugs go if at all delivered? Who is responsible to ensure that drugs actually get to the health units? (ii) Do our elected representatives care to know if drugs actually reach their district/constituency health units? What will they do different if elected or re-elected? What can they do to ensure there is adequate staff or equipment in the hospitals or health units? (ii) There has been frequent outbreaks of communicable diseases like cholera, meningitis, etc in the region. These are diseases that are preventable by public health education campaign. What will it take our elected representatives to collaborate with health authorities to design programs on PREVENTIVE MEDICINE that addresses prevention rather than cure? So many diseases could be reducedor eliminated by educating the public. Lastly, is there any way to organize our candidates who are aspiring for votes to have open debates on the issues. These debates could be held in schools or other facility. I would like to encourage those candidates who share our views on this forum to focus on issues rather than personal attacks. JJavudria On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:26 AM, wrote: > Send WestNileNet mailing list submissions to >westnilenet@kym.net > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >westnilenet-requ...@kym.net > > You can reach the person managing the list at >westnilenet-ow...@kym.net > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of WestNileNet digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: What are or should be the Priority Issues to be seriously > addressed this Election Year (Ezama Ruffino) > 2. Topics (Ezama Ruffino) > 3. Re: Re: What should be the Election issues in West Nile > (Gilbert Ringtho) > > > -- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 20:54:00 -0400 > From: Ezama Ruffino > Subject: Re: [WestNileNet] What are or should be the Priority Issues >to be seriously addressed this Election Year > To: A Virtual Network for friends of West Nile > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi Vasco > Thanks for these brilliant thoughts. > Just a point of clarification: I did not mean we need to get our political > candidates to express themselves but we would like the West Nilers only on > this Forum to see whether political parties have clear policies about > power, > health etc and whether they can be broken down into doable components. Its > us to air these views so that we know how to share them through the media > to > forearm our people when the politicians only come to ask them for votes > without any clear policies on our real issues. > Once again thanks. > The secretary will add some of the emerging topics to our list of topics we > have but have not yet received atte
Re: [WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 26, Issue 53
Dear Mr. Avudria, I am so much delighted with your observation regarding the challenges the region faces (Education and Health Services). These are truly the gaps of service delivery that is hitting our region hard. However I also have one or two areas as food for thought or action points. 1. what is our main objective of being in this forum (As Members of the Forum). Do we have a follow up mechanism for every topic we debate in this forum? Does any concern raised in this forum reach the concerned authorities of this region and Country? If so, who are the representatives taking the lead in this. I might have join the association late but I feel our cries are not heard even by the MEDIA leave alone our politicians. Does the Country know that some where in West NIle there exists a strong 8 Districts, 5-6 different tribal groups' forum that is formed to address the views of the people?. For our own information, I have been following our different debates here, they are really topical issues, I feel if we can compile these, have one leader a member of stake present it as our memo. We have big and high profile Professionals in this forum. 2. Can the Administrator or the President of this forum help us and at least add one or many of the elite politicians to this forum. This I feel can also become a challenging factor for serious politician(s) to take action and start knocking doors for our own region to develop. This will also be a gate opener for our needs to be addressed. I don't come from Nebbi but I like politicians like Ja Chan Omach, Eng. Du Janga and others like Moses Ali etc. We have the whole IGG coming from our region but what role do they play? Is it because we do not challenge them? What can we do? MEMBERS CORRECT ME IF AM GOING TOO FAR. 3. Gone are the days of economic retardation: we need a Real Prosperity for All programs not the pen to paper one. Why can't we think of compiling and preparing a logical Memo, presenting this to HE the President.and again the media will play a role here. Let him also know that down in West Nile, we have a pro Poor Forum that is basically agitating the government to look at addressing the gaps that exist in the region. Remember, the more you know, the more doors get open. To me Electricity and Roads are the two main services the people of West Nile need. If there is no road, foreign investors can not think of exploring the market opportunities around and the same applies to power. We have a huge deposits of Lime, gold etc in Metu Mountains in Moyo, oil across West Nile and many other investment opportunities but all these can not be explored because of two factors .i.e. roads and power. Many of these services might have not been extended just because of the pretext that we the people of WN are comfortable in our suffering status since we don't complain. With these I would therefore need to know if either of the above concerns have ever been thought of or done or yes. Otherwise Bravo to you my bro and to all of us for the brilliant ideas. Long Live West Nile, Long Live Uganda, For God and My Country. Best DRICHI Peter Carl --- On Thu, 14/10/10, JohnAJackson wrote: From: JohnAJackson Subject: [WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 26, Issue 53 To: westnilenet@kym.net Date: Thursday, 14 October, 2010, 15:22 Dear friends, I will not write thesis on the problems in West Nile region as most of us are aquanted with most of these challenges. I will only pick two issue for my commends a) Education. In the last ten years we have all watched academic standards in the entire region decline without taking any action to remediate the qaulity of education, which is a foundation for any sustainable development. Schools like Ombaci, Koboko, Mvara, Nyapea, etc which used to sign just like other schools around Kampala have been shading off their glory. Where is the source of the disease? When do we start to treat the patient, from symptoms or when he/she is almost reaching the grave or when he/she still can lift up his/her head? (i) Where do our election andidates stand on the issue of decline on eduacation in the region? What is their strategy to reverse the problem? (ii) UPE has boosted school enrollment to a point where teachers are stretched to the limit, which innevitably erodes qaulity of teaching, coathing, mentoring students to be successful. What will our elected representatives do to address the problem of over crowding in the classrooms? (iii) Many years ago, in the 70s/80s, there used to be Inspectors from the Ministry of Education who would visit schools and ensure that teachers are teaching to the professional stardands they are trained to have. Who has dropped the ball and what will our elected representatives do to ensure supervision of schools is enforced? (b) Health Delivery & Public Health (i) Although many health centers have be
Re: [WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 26, Issue 53
Comrades, This discussion is important and i entirely agree with Ndugu Drici that the key policy makers hailing from our region need to be brought on board to understand the ongoing discusions and recommendations. If they can only open up to share discussions on the following realities on ground, among others:- - The continued fall in performance of our schools (now every person has to ferry children to kampala schools); - The deteriaration of health facilities and staffing; - Inadequate support towards farming activities, marketing , processing (very few progressive farmers in the region and not adequately supported); - Unreliable supply of power (and lack of power for value addition); I also note that we have various levels of interventions for promotion of services in the key areas of development. Certain problems in the core areas of development (like health, education, water) can be supplemented from resources alocated to the Local Governments (Sub county/District/Municipality), through transfer of funds from the centre. The leaders aspiring for the levels mentioned also have a stake in the discussion. Thanks Apollo On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 11:34 AM, drichi peter wrote: > Dear Mr. Avudria, > > I am so much delighted with your observation regarding the challenges the > region faces (Education and Health Services). These are truly the gaps of > service delivery that is hitting our region hard. > However I also have one or two areas as food for thought or action points. > > 1. what is our main objective of being in this forum (As Members of the > Forum). Do we have a follow up mechanism for every topic we debate in this > forum? Does any concern raised in this forum reach the concerned authorities > of this region and Country? If so, who are the representatives taking the > lead in this. I might have join the association late but I feel our cries > are not heard even by the MEDIA leave alone our politicians. Does the > Country know that some where in West NIle there exists a strong 8 Districts, > 5-6 different tribal groups' forum that is formed to address the views of > the people?. For our own information, I have been following our different > debates here, they are really topical issues, I feel if we can compile > these, have one leader a member of stake present it as our memo. We > have big and high profile Professionals in this forum. > > 2. Can the Administrator or the President of this forum help us and at > least add one or many of the elite politicians to this forum. This I feel > can also become a challenging factor for serious politician(s) to take > action and start knocking doors for our own region to develop. This will > also be a gate opener for our needs to be addressed. I don't come from Nebbi > but I like politicians like Ja Chan Omach, Eng. Du Janga and others like > Moses Ali etc. We have the whole IGG coming from our region but what role do > they play? Is it because we do not challenge them? What can we do? MEMBERS > CORRECT ME IF AM GOING TOO FAR. > > 3. Gone are the days of economic retardation: we need a Real Prosperity for > All programs not the pen to paper one. Why can't we think of compiling and > preparing a logical Memo, presenting this to HE the President.and > again the media will play a role here. Let him also know that down in West > Nile, we have a pro Poor Forum that is basically agitating the government > to look at addressing the gaps that exist in the region. Remember, the more > you know, the more doors get open. To me Electricity and Roads are the two > main services the people of West Nile need. If there is no road, foreign > investors can not think of exploring the market opportunities around and the > same applies to power. We have a huge deposits of Lime, gold etc in Metu > Mountains in Moyo, oil across West Nile and many other investment > opportunities but all these can not be explored because of two factors .i.e. > roads and power. > Many of these services might have not been extended just because of the > pretext that we the people of WN are comfortable in our suffering status > since we don't complain. > > With these I would therefore need to know if either of the above concerns > have ever been thought of or done or yes. > > Otherwise Bravo to you my bro and to all of us for the brilliant ideas. > Long Live West Nile, Long Live Uganda, For God and My Country. > > Best > > > DRICHI Peter Carl > > > > --- On *Thu, 14/10/10, JohnAJackson * wrote: > > > From: JohnAJackson > Subject: [WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 26, Issue 53 > To: westnilenet@kym.net > Date: Thursday, 14 October, 2010, 15:22 > > > Dear friends, > > I will not write thesis on the problems in Wes
Re: [WestNileNet] Re: WestNileNet Digest, Vol 26, Issue 53
Hi Dr Anguzu Greetings. I like the way you have spelt out your points. How can our people be explained the truth so that they vote right people without seeing how handsome/beautiful they are, whether they have money or not? Could you mention concretely some ways for the Mass Civic Education? Ruffino ___ WestNileNet mailing list WestNileNet@kym.net http://orion.kym.net/mailman/listinfo/westnilenet WestNileNet is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/westnilenet@kym.net/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ___
