Access to ICT Higher Education: Reflections on Good Practices in Promoting Gender Equality at Makerere University

This chapter explores access to ICT training in Makerere University by gender. It focuses on selected examples showing the promotion of general access to ICT training in the university. Examples of the Department of Women and Gender Studies (DWGS) and the Faculty of Computing and Information Technology (FCIT) are utilised. The paper also analyses the efforts of the gender mainstreaming division (GMD). The division is charged with the role of mainstreaming gender into all aspects of the university, including gendering the ICT training process. In all, the measures aimed at promoting and / or improving access to ICT higher education are tackled. In this context, the purpose of this paper is twofold: one, to present good practices that can be emulated in developing relevant ICT training policies and practices in similar higher institutions of learning; and two, to make recommendations for possible utilisation by organisations and institutions of higher learning as well as governments.