Strengthening the Monitoring Framework for UCOBAC’s Initiative on Women’s Land, Housing and Property Rights

The Uganda Community Based Association for Child Welfare (UCOBAC) is a consortium of community-based organizations working to improve the welfare of vulnerable groups, particularly orphans and other vulnerable children and women. UCOBAC recently launched a women’s land, housing, and property rights initiative in two rural districts of Uganda that plans to: document the status of women’s land and property rights; use that documentation to influence attitudes, beliefs, and cultural norms that discriminate against women; expand women’s access to formal legal and administrative structures; and, ultimately, increase women’s access to, ownership of, and control over land and other property. The objective of the workshop was to propose improvements to UCOBAC’s data collection and monitoring and evaluation framework. The team proposed two different M&E systems, one “low-tech” and one “high-tech” option, both meeting UCOBAC’s goals of being suitable and cost-effective.