News and events // Last updated: 04/01/2012 //

Norway Cup is the world’s largest football tournament for young people!

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News and events // Last updated: 20/12/2011 //

Stormer tar livet av mer enn 6000 fattige fiskere på Victoriasjøen hvert år. Nå kan en SMS redde mange.

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News and events // Last updated: 16/12/2011 //

Det årlige ICGLR-toppmøtet er vanligvis en dag, men i år ble en ekstra dag satt av til spesialsesjon om seksualisert og kjønnsbasert vold (SGBV) i regionen. Til stede var statsledere og ”First Ladies” fra ICGLR-statene, samt inviterte gjester, herunder statssekretær Fiskaa og SRSG Margaret Wallström (FNs spesialrepresentant mot seksualisert vold i konflikt). Fiskaa holdt et kort innlegg der hun...

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These are exciting times for Norway-Uganda/East-Africa cooperation. The UMOJA Cultural Flying Carpet (CFC) Festival is ongoing – consisting of a range of events with participation from Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Norway. UMOJA CFC embodies a number of elements on the importance of cultural cooperation.

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News and events // Last updated: 19/09/2011 //

UMOJA Cultural Flying Carpet (CFC) is a product of Norsk Kulturskoleråd and is created upon the vision of promoting peace and development through international cultural networking. In order to do this it aims at creating a worldwide network of programmes, institutions and individuals.

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News and events // Last updated: 19/12/2011 //

During the second week of November, representatives from the Norwegian Embassy in Kampala went to Gulu and Kitgum in Northern Uganda. The purpose of the trip was to undertake the annual meeting with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)- Uganda, as well as to undertake a field visit to some of the NRC’s project sites. The Embassy is partnering with NRC, and currently funds the project “Recovery f...

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News and events // Last updated: 18/11/2011 //

On Tuesday 15th November 2011, the Ministry of Water and Environment and the Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development hosted a high level breakfast meeting for the Ugandan delegation going for the 17th Conference of Parties (COP) in Durban. The delegates will take part in the international climate change negotiations. The dialogue was on why and how to increase the focus on gender when...

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News and events // Last updated: 07/10/2011 //

For the past two weeks, the Embassy has been heavily involved in UMOJA Cultural Flying Carpet (CFC) and the UMOJA Festival 2011. This has been an exciting experience, especially since the Festival ended up being a great success. The Festival culminated with the UMOJA International Show at the Ndere Cultural Centre on Friday 30 September. Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC) did their part of t...

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Over 50 representatives from around 35 civil society organizations, both from Uganda and Norway, took part in the seminar. 
Photo: Emma Holager.
News and events // Last updated: 02/06/2011 //

The Norwegian Embassy in Kampala and the Civil Society Department in Norad invited both Norwegian and Ugandan partners to a working seminar in Kampala on the 25th and 26th of May 2011. The seminar aimed at discussing the status and direction of Norwegian support to civil society in Uganda, with consideration of future support. About 20 Norwegian NGOs are involved in development work in Uganda a...

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