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Welcome to my world. I'm Tricia Gloria Nabaye, on a mission to advocate for gender equality, human rights, and democratic governance through the lens of feminist intersectional practices. With nine years of experience, I've honed my skills to be a force for positive change. My strengths lie in problem-solving and effective cross-cultural collaboration, and I thrive in leadership roles. My analytical perspective ensures that my advocacy is data-driven and impactful. My primary focus is on feminist leadership consulting, where I provide valuable insight and guidance. I also offer rapporteur services, ensuring that essential discussions are documented and shared. As a feminist researcher, my deep commitment lies in addressing gender issues, empowering women and girls, and advancing public policy advocacy. I'm a visionary dedicated to shaping the future of advocacy with a strong focus on human rights. Join me in our journey to drive positive change. Together, we can build a world where gender equality and human rights are at the forefront, ensuring a more inclusive and just society for all.

Thursday, June 11, 2015

I WILL STAND FOR IDEAS OTHER THAN INDIVIDUALS!

In the wake of election fervour and the timely need for strategies on how to make sure that democracy prevails and there is change of leadership in the coming general elections.Teams have been made and lines drawn, it is either the NRM or the Democracy Alliance which was launched yesterday. Whereas I have always wished that we have less political parties to avoid the confusion especially at the polls. Other than that, as much as the Movement days are far gone, standing for ideas under the Movement was paramount in provindg an individual with a deep vision for the Nation.

Why, even now more than ever am I refraining to individual politics? You see, it is easy to forget the attrocities done on a Nation by people just because they finally appeal to the cause that we have for so long fought for. In this very case, I can never be accepting of Mr Amama Mbabazi, not now and definately not ever and I feel the deep pain of betrayal of the opposition taking on Mbabazi as if he was a saint from the go.(they say in politics there is no permanent enemy, as if it comforts my long desire for integrity) You know, once a thief always a thief. It doesnot go away, it stays with you far long than it should. When Amama Mbabazi was being paraded for scandal and corruption cases, everyone was at his throat, everyone saw the injustice he did to our Nation and it bitterly made many activists come out and denouce publicly their dealings with Mr Mbabazi and the like. We were bitter as a country and we wanted him to pay for his attrocities. And then the unlikely happened, he was elavated to Prime minister of a country that he had robbed continously. Yet in all anger we let him stay and take on his term. Unfortunately, to him and maybe fortunately to us Mr Amama was laid off his duties. I want to believe for reasons he finds unjustifiable. But then that doesnot make him a saint, it makes him just a victim of ill luck and maybe karma came seareching him out.

So then, how come in just a scope of months he has become one of us, him who ate the tax payers money,him who ate with the pigs in the Animal Farm, just because they chased him out of their circle he now feels that he belongs with us or rather we have made him apart of us.
I will stand for my integrity on a day like this, I will stand for democracy and sanity and not for a man who has served a self benefiting government and only thinks he can help bring back the nation to sanity by using the easy change of heart that lies deep in the souls of many Ugandans. I will never stand to hail the cause of Mr Amama Mbabazi much less of the reknown Sejjusa. I hate double stepping, you don't sleep with the devil and then come and make friends with the crowd simply because the devil can't have you anymore.

Therefore, as the opposition takes on 2016 elections as a coalition, I want to believe in ideas if they present viable ones, I want to see if they can redeem themselves. I want to see new faces being fronted for the cause. I want to have a litttle hope in their joint effort or else at the look of things from where I stand,we have a wounded animal for an opposition. There is a lot of work needed to be done to ensure that party members along the country can stand and present an individual who has ideas that are to change the country. One who is not power hungry like Mr Amama, bukenya and Sejjusa. I need to stand for ideas of democracy, development and growth. I choose to believe that all the prodigal sons of NRM do not stand for such a cause because they have once betrayed their land,they have once adamantly eaten from the National treasury yet went without any punishment given to their misconduct. so not now, not ever in my wildest dreams will I buy into a journey to better governance led by Mr Amama Mbabazi, Sejjusa or Gilbert Bukenya.
I wil stand for Ideas and not Individuals and they lack the former.

Monday, June 01, 2015

HOW FAR CAN WAITING GO?

Is waiting an African thing? I have been rather fustrated this morning at the level of snail business at my work place, well it so happens that we had one doctor on duty and he had to attend to all the patients(safe to note he is Korean) In the midst of such a crisis, the doctor had to be in for a procedure that rather takes more time than seeing one patient does. With a queue of about seven patients, there before my very eyes, I knew waiting is not a thing for all Nationalities. I was tired of waiting for the doctor, who on a rther safe side had to take his time and work on the patient to their satisfaction. Yet, I died inside knowing that these waiting patients also had a desperate need that needed his attention.

Now, I am terrible with patience and alot of times, I find an irritation in the wait. But in the face of a patient..in Uganda, how long should the wait be? In a country where a patient's health is subject to the mood of the attendant or the doctor, how long should the wait be? Should we do away with emergencies in the event that we find no reason to make our systems run faster than we have them run.
I was brought back, face to face with the reality of the sham of service delivery in our Nation. The reality that a child, mother and any one could die so easily to unpreventable circumstances. I was left stuck in such a system for two hours and even though I was on the service end of the system, I was disgusted to the brim. I wanted to thelp, yet I was caught between the dead end.( Iam not a doctor)

Health care then, is just not a problem for National refferal hospitals but for Private hospitals as well. It is a disease eating away the fabric of service delivery in the institutions that look after our heslth and maybe in due time, there will be less to look forward to in the many service providers that have infested our country with sham unqualifying hospitals. Today, I stand in such service and today, I feel the plight of the client , who out of their fustration have to wait to get served for more than normal hours of waiting.

Waiting as normal as it is, brings forth our impatience when it is streched beyond normal. I hope in due time, things will change around here and the around the country as well.(time check: 12:30 pm, most patients have gone and the doctor is seeing his third patient for the day.

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