Join the YOPNEC “Promoting a Network of Commonwealth Young Achievers” The Network aims at bringing together young Ugandan professionals who have studied & worked within the Commonwealth countries; it will be reinforcing the role of young professionals in development. YOPNEC will recruit members from the corporate, NGOs, academia, media and other private sector entities to companion the values of the Commonwealth for the socio-economic transformation of Uganda and the East African region as a whole. The Network will officially be launched in November 2008. Membership is open to all young professionals and students across the East African Community and the Commonwealth. For further information on how to join the Network, please contact the
Desk Officer, CPA Uganda
Email: royalcsociety_ug@yahoo.co.uk
secretariat@cpaug.org or
download membership form at
www.cpaug.org/publication/membershipform  

The 1st Euro-Afro ICT Cooperation Event 2009 (EAICE) coded named (Euro-Afro Week 2009) is planned to bring together the Technopreneur community from the African states and the European Union to a three day Information Society gathering to further the Outcomes of the World Summit on the Information Society Tunis 2005 Action Plan. The event will be held from May 2009 with the theme: “Harnessing the potential of ICTs to achieve Human Development in Africa.”

The objective of this project is to develop scientific and technological co-operation between Europe and Africa in the field of ICT for Development in certain select areas. The programme will also endeavour to strengthen the European presence in ICT in Africa and look at the regions progress in meeting the UN Millennium Declaration and the MDGs enshrined therein. The Euro-Afro Event is being organized by CPA Uganda in partnership with Elmot Ltd., a private sector IT firm.

Planned activities include;- a Civil Society Fair, an ICT Symposium, a Tertiary Net Forum for students, a Concert, media campaign & a Children Writing Competition.
The Commonwealth Association-Uganda is seeking for partners and sponsors for the event.

Interested sponsors can contact the Association at

Plot 79 Bukoto Street, Kamwokya

Tel: 256 414 577 017
Email:secretariat@cpaug.org, royalcsociety_ug@yahoo.co.uk

Web site: www.cpaug.org

The Commonwealth Association –Uganda in partnership with the Government of Uganda represented by the Foreign Affairs Ministry commemorated the 2009 Commonwealth Day in Uganda with a Commonwealth procession. The proposed theme is “Uganda & the Commonwealth, empowering young people for socio-economic prosperity,” though the global theme is “Commonwealth @ 60: serving a new generation," Uganda is to adopt a national theme in line with the country’s socio-economic priorities with regard to young people.

The theme reflects the fact that 2009 will mark the 60th anniversary of the foundation of the modern Commonwealth. Yet the emphasis will be on the Commonwealth's young people - and the future - rather than the past, that is the celebrations were mostly attended by young people from around ten secondary and primary schools.

The celebrations attended by the British High Commissioner to Uganda, the diplomatic community, educational institutions, CSOs, the private sector, members of the Friends of the Commonwealth from Arua, Kampala & Jinja & the media was held at Hotel Africana, Kampala attracted close to 500 people. In his speech the Minster of Foreign Affairs, read for him by the Director for International Cooperation, Amb. Rhoda Kaisho, informed the participants that the Commonwealth has over the years devoted resources to youth programmes. He mentioned the Commonwealth funded Northern Uganda Youth Development Centre that has made a tremendous contribution to the empowerment of young people in the Northern part of Uganda.

He concluded by saying that though the world in engulfed in the financial crises, its not yet affected so many Commonwealth countries and he appealed to other leaders not to allow the crisis to distract the task of preparing the youth who are the future leaders of the Commonwealth.  

During the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) Kampala, in November 2007 there was the launching of a flagship entity called the Friends of the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Peoples Forum which was aimed at bringing together people to work to help make the Commonwealth a safer, healthier and more secure place. Today Uganda has over 800 registered members both individuals and organizations, and as part of the 60th Anniversary commemoration activities to the founding the modern Commonwealth, the Friends of the Commonwealth Uganda Chapter (FOCU) will be officially launched on 19th April 2009 in Uganda with a Public Lecture. The FOCU will be an affiliate of the Friends of the Commonwealth registered as a charity in UK in 2007 to be based at the Commonwealth Association-Uganda Secretariat. FOCU will be involved in several activities like charity events, debates, network meetings, fundraising activities, art & cultural and media campaigns among others. To activate your membership for the Friends of the Commonwealth

please do contact the

Commonwealth Association-Uganda Secretariat,

Plot 79 Bukoto Street, Kamwokya

Tel: 256 414 577 017/0782 737 666/ 0782535046

Email:secretariat@cpaug.org, royalcsociety_ug@yahoo.co.uk

Web site: www.cpaug.org