On Wednesday 16, 2018, Deputy Head of Cooperation at the Irish Embassy, Áine Doody, joined a crowd of several hundred elderly people in Moroto, Karamoja, as they awaited their monthly social protection payment. Amounting to 25,000 shillings – or about €7 a month – the payment is provided to elderly people over the age of 65…
The sound of intermittent beeps as ration cards are scanned signal it’s the dawn of a new era in Oruchinga refugee settlement, Southwestern Uganda. Gone are the days of flicking through reams of paper to verify and tick names off — from now on it will be a swift scan of a refugee’s ration card and irises…
The Government of Uganda (GoU) in partnership with the European Union (EU) launch ambitious programme worth 150.6 million Euros to eradicate poverty and under nutrition in Northern Uganda. The programme, implemented by the Office of the Prime Minister will also consolidate stability in the region and strengthen foundations for sustainable and inclusive socio-economic development. Titled,…
On April 27 2018, a financing agreement to the tune of 37.1 million Euros has been signed between the Government of Uganda and the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) as lead financier, in the presence of KfW as co-financier. The financing aims at supporting a key project in the energy sector, in line with Uganda…
The Korea International Cooperation Agency and UNICEF – the United Nations Children’s Fund – have launched a five year programme to scale up water, sanitation and hygiene services in schools in Karamoja. The programme will be executed until 2022, benefitting 56,000 children from 100 schools in all Karamoja districts – Abim, Amudat, Kaabong, Kotido, Moroto,…
The Government of Japan has announced a US$1.5m contribution to the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Uganda’s refugee support programme. The announcement was made by H.E. Kazuaki Kameda, the Ambassador of Japan to the Republic of Uganda, during a press conference to announce the new funding to UNDP and three other UN agencies including…
In Luwero District on April 13, Mr. Aloys Lorkeers, Head of the Sustainable Development Section at the European Union Delegation to Uganda, and Hon. Joy Kabatsi, the State Minister for Agriculture, jointly launched the €15 million (UGX 67.billion) EU funded project. A large audience, composed of private sector operators, public services, including police, and local authorities attended the event. The five…
The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), has launched two new five-year activities, totaling $75 million USD, to improve food and nutrition security and to strengthen resilience of over 665,000 people in the Karamoja sub-region. Karamoja is the most nutritionally vulnerable region in Uganda and the third most vulnerable to stunting…
On March 28, the second phase of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) was launched at an event at Silver Springs Hotel in Kampala. This new phase of the DGF brings together seven Development Partners (Austria, Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the European Union) to support democratic governance initiatives in Uganda with a total amount of…
On March 20, 2018, the Ministry of Energy and Minerals Development (MEMD) in partnership with the European Union, the ACP Group of States and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), launched Uganda’s first Baseline Assessment and Value Chain Analysis Study Reports for the Development Minerals Sector. Development Minerals are those minerals and materials that are…
