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THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA REPUBLIC OF UGANDA
Hon. Jeje Odongo Hon. Mario Obiga Kania Minister for Internal Affairs Minister of State for Internal Affairs
H.E. Gen. Kaguta Y. Museveni Gen. Kale Kayihura President of the Republic of Uganda Inspector General of Police Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Prof. Kasenene Peter Ms Judy Obitre-Gama The Inspector General of Police, Gen. Kale Kayihura, and the leadership of the Uganda Police Force wish His Excellency the The President of Uganda Chairman - NIRA Board Executive Director - NIRA President Gen. Kaguta Y. Museveni, cabinet members and all people of Uganda a jolly and peaceful Independence day.
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The Uganda Police Garments factory Counter Terrorism directorate exhibiting its aerial Hon. Minister of state for Internal Affairs Kania 8LI'LEMVQERERH1IQFIVWSJXLI&SEVHXLI)\IGYXMZI(MVIGXSVERHEPPWXEJJSJXLI2EXMSREP demonstrating their capabilties during Police capabilities in combating terrorism during Police Obiga launching the construction of 1020 -HIRXM½GEXMSRERH6IKMWXVEXMSR%YXLSVMX] 2-6% GSRZI]XLIMVLIEVXJIPXGSRKVEXYPEXMSRWXSEPP9KERHERW Day celebrations at Kololo Day celebrations at Kololo +RXVLQJ8QLWVIRUORZHUUDQNLQJRI¿FHUV YTSRXLIXL-RHITIRHIRGI%RRMZIVWEV] Long live the Uganda Police Force! Long live Uganda! Uganda @ 54 | 3 Contents 6 8 President Yoweri Education Ministry in Kaguta Museveni’s 100 percent absorption independece day rating address to the Nation
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4 | Uganda @ 54 There is reason to celebrate this year’s Independence
ganda is in celebratory mood as we witness the network from border to border is at its best, the enrolment in 54th Independence Anniversary. True, we have witnessed primary, secondary and university levels is astronomical, health Uregressions along the way but the current events show we services coverage going higher and higher, peace and security is are on the way to progress. at its best to mention but a few.
As rightly put out by the Deputy Executive Director, Uganda :KDW 8JDQGDQV KDYH WR ÀJKW LV OD]LQHVV DQG SURSHQVLW\ WR Media Centre, Col. Shaban Bantariza, Uganda has had almost consume what we don’t have. The government has set the pace half the period of our independence experienced turbulence and and its incumbent upon us to tap into these develop programmes insecurity. to be able to pluck ourselves out of poverty.
Hence as Ugandans, we have not been able to realize and enjoy Let no one be mistaken that government will give out free money the fruits of our labour, let alone bearing sustainable fruits of our to a lazy hand. labour as independent Ugandans, Bantariza observes. Happy Independence Anniversary. “It is for that reason that you will hear many in the ruling party and government of Uganda starting from 1986 when enumerating success and achievements for Uganda and by Ugandans. Of course some Ugandans, especially those who don’t know what happened from 1966 to 1986, accuse the NRM of trying to re- write Uganda’s history””, Bantariza further observes. “Maybe they have a point, but only from a point of lack of knowledge, to be polite! Some debaters would say “from the point of ignorance”, he adds.
$V%DQWDUL]DSXWVLWQRRQHKDVDULJKWRUMXVWLÀFDWLRQWRUHZULWH our history, because our history is not a monopoly of a single individual or group of people.
But the fact remains that Ugandans tasted the fruits of ,QGHSHQGHQFHRQO\ZKHQWKH150FDPHLQWRSRZHU)RUWKHÀUVW time, Uganda as a country is weaning off donor aid which had become synonymous with the past governments.
This is not because Uganda was poor to rely on hand outs from donor who are linked to colonial establishments but was purely due to mismanagement of the economy and the ineffective state structures that we inherited from the British colonialists enhanced by the education system tailored in favour of colonial SDWURQDJHDQGLQÁXHQFH
How come most countries that were never colonised have developed faster than the formerly colonised. The colonial administrators made sure that even after they left we danced to their whims and always reached out to them for handouts to bail out our limping governments and institutions.
It’s no wonder that some in the know feel that it is the right time the colonialists pay reparation for the plunder of the formerly colonised countries. As much as we blame the past governments for mismanaging our state affairs, the blame should go to the colonial administrators who not only repatriated the cash but human resource in form of slavery.
As seen from 1986 till date, despite burden of corruption and a Prime Minister Milton Obote receives the instruments of recuperating economy, Uganda’s growth is remarkable. The road government on October 9, 1962
Uganda @ 54 | 5 Abridged version of speech by H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni President of the Republic of Uganda at the celebrations marking 54 years of Uganda’s independence
Theme: “Protection of our independence (viii) The underdevelopment of the product, electricity accounts for 40% and through promotion of patriotism, unity services sector; transport accounts for 50% (World Bank). and hard work at Luuka District - 9th (ix) The underdevelopment of agriculture; October, 2016 1RZ WKDW ZH DUH ÀQDOO\ DGGUHVVLQJ WKH (x) The attack on democracy. cost-pushers of electricity, road transport I congratulate Ugandans on the 54th and rail transport, we remain to deal with Independence Anniversary of our country. %\ WKH WLPH ZH HOLPLQDWH RU VLJQLÀFDQWO\ the total monetization and modernization I wish you a prosperous 55th year of reduce all the ten bottlenecks, Uganda will of agriculture, industrializing the country Independence. be a modern country. These bottlenecks and continue to develop the services sector. need to be tackled in a holistic way. As I have told you repeatedly, over the last The total monetization of agriculture will 55 years, the NRM and its precursors have Especially by handling electricity, the mean persuading the 68% of the homesteads LGHQWLÀHGWHQVWUDWHJLFERWWOHQHFNV7KHVH improved roads and ICT backbone, we that are still in subsistence farming to join are: are on the verge of lowering the costs of commercial agriculture. Operation Wealth doing business in the economy, especially in Creation is continuing to distribute coffee (i) Ideological disorientation; manufacturing. The only problem remaining seedlings, fruit seedlings, tea seedlings, (ii) A weak State, especially the army, is on account of the high electricity prices etc. Since Operation Wealth Creation that needed strengthening; caused by the Bujagali power station of 11 started in 2013, they have given out a total American cents. Recently, in New York, I had of 122 millions coffee seedlings, 11 million (iii) Under-developed infrastructure; a serious discussion with the stakeholders fruit seedlings, 15 millions of tea seedlings. (iv) The underdevelopment of the human involved in the Bujagali project and agreed This is in addition to the seedlings of maize, resource; on how to bring down the cost of power of banana suckers, dairy heifers, cassava, that power station. piglets, poultry, etc. (v) Interfering with the private sector Apart from bringing down the cost of power, (either by policy or by corruption); we are building new dams to ensure that Unfortunately, I am told that around 40% of the coffee seedling have dried up (vi) A fragmented African market on Uganda will never, again, be in shortage of EHFDXVH RI WKH EHQHÀFLDULHV QRW ZDWHULQJ account of colonialism; electricity. them. This is terrible carelessness. It is (vii) Exporting unprocessed raw materials In order to further deal with the high cost so easy to water coffee seedlings and and, therefore, getting little pushers in manufacturing and business, we similar plants by fetching water from a money and losing jobs and lack of DUHDOVRJRLQJWREXLOGDPRGHUQHOHFWULÀHG nearby swamp on a bicycle in a kidomola industrialization; standard gauge railway. In a manufactured (a jerrycan), distributing the water into
6 | Uganda @ 54 Sarah Kagingo of the Department of Communications and Public Affairs OWC visits a coffee nursery bed in western Uganda. plastic water bottles, putting a small hole leaders need to aggressively sensitize the is growing very well on account of robust in each bottle and putting each near the people on this issue. security and the good roads. kikolo of the plant (near the roots). This is simple drip irrigation. However, agriculture On the side of livestock, the remaining The other effort has been in the area needs to do more. There is sometimes the challenge is to ensure that we provide good RI SURYLGLQJ FKHDS ÀQDQFH IRU WKH SUREOHPRIOHHFKHGVRLOVWKDWDUHGHÀFLHQW pasture for the cattle, both in the rainy manufacturers. We are going to give in phosphorus, potassium and nitrogen. and dry seasons. The farms everywhere capital to Uganda Development Bank (UDB) You should carry out zonal tests and advise must be planted with chloris Guyana WRWKHWXQHRI6KVELOOLRQWKLVÀQDQFLDO the farmers accordingly, through intensive (orunyankokoore), bracheria (ejubwe), year. radio, sensitization. The other big problem hyperania ruffa (emburara), panicum Then, gradually, it will be increased up to for agriculture is the occasional erraticness maxima and minima (obuteera-nte) as 500 billion shillings over the medium term. of the rain. The answer for this is irrigation- well as the newly recommended fodder They can, then, lend that money to the mega and micro. We have already repaired crops such as sorghum etc. etc. The manufacturers at the interest rate of 15%. the mega-irrigation schemes of Doho in Ministry of Agriculture should solve the Butaleja, Mobuku in Kasese, Olweny in issue of tractors. Acquiring tractors is not 7KH ÀQDO HIIRUW LV RQ WKH LVVXH RI WKH Lango, Agoro in Lamwo and Kibiimba in a problem. The problem are the people to airline. We allowed Uganda Airlines to Bugiri. Mubuku and Agoro are more correct entrust the tractors with. The issue of ticks die because it was making losses and, at conceptually because they involve diverting is being handled. that time, Ugandans were not travelling River water and irrigating the terrestrial as much as today. Somebody has told portion of our country and not encroaching The issue of industrializing our country will me that Ugandans are spending US$420 on the wetlands in effect tampering with be handled in four ways. million per year on travel. Therefore, the the tributaries of the Nile River. The NRM Government has decided to start a other mode of irrigation is to use solar First of all, the Ugandan investors who 1DWLRQDO$LUOLQHWRVWRSWKHRXWÁRZRIWKLV water pumps, pump water from a lower have already done a good job. These will money and to end travel inconveniences to elevation to a higher one and irrigate the be assisted to expand. I also encourage Ugandans. QHDUE\ÀHOGV7KH0LQLVWU\RI$JULFXOWXUHLV them to source new partners from outside already directed to have those solar-pumps or inside. Then there are the FDIs (the Therefore, my dear Ugandans, I can assembled and manufactured here. Foreign Direct Investments). The crucial FRQÀGHQWO\ WHOO \RX WKDW WKH IXWXUH LV point here is prompt decision-making by bright. We are assured of the internal &KLQHVH IULHQGV DUH ÀQDOO\ KHOSLQJ XV RXURIÀFLDOV1RGHOD\V market of Uganda, the regional market to manufacture phosphate fertilizers at and the international markets. While Sukuru hills in Tororo. Eventually, we The third source of manufacturers are our purchasing power outside Africa is declining hope to blend the Tororo phosphates scientists whom we have assisted to get or stagnant, the purchasing power in Africa with the potassium from Lake Katwe and patents after their inventions. Those are is going up. The purchasing power is one of 1LWURJHQIURPWKHRLOÀHOGVLQ/DNH$OEHUW being assisted with our direct funding. the most important stimuli for production or importing some from our Tanzanian The fourth group are the youth, the and growth. brothers so that the NPK fertilizer is women and the cooperative groups that I once again congratulate all Ugandans upon processed and formulated here. we are assisting to acquire machinery celebrating the 54th Independence and for processing most of our agricultural, wish you good luck and happy celebrations. Do not, however, forget that the other mineral and forest raw-materials into danger to stable commercial agriculture ÀQLVKHGSURGXFWV Thank you. in Uganda is land fragmentation through archaic systems of inheritance. You the The services sector, especially tourism,
Uganda @ 54 | 7 Education realises 100% ÀQDQFLDOEXGJHWSHUIRUPDQFH
By Robert Odongo budget to votes 013 and 111, to cater for pension shortfalls. The Government of Uganda development budget release According to the Budget Financial Performance outturn performed at 95% due to budget cuts. H[FOXGLQJ H[WHUQDO ÀQDQFLQJ IRU WKH )< D WRWDO release of Ushs. 1,836.2bn was made to the Education sector. The current development dispels claims by the opposition that the NRM government under President Yoweri Museveni This translated to an overall release performance of 100.41%. is paying lip se3rvice to the education and sports sector. The 100% budget performance from the government is The critics point to low wages paid to teachers and the attributed to supplementary budget releases to wage subsequent strikes. But government has maintained that component for Votes 013, 149 and 122 to cater for wage with the economy and revenue improving, the teachers will shortfalls. Additionally, releases to non-wage component get their fair share just like other civil servants who have over performed at 102.6% on account of a supplementary patiently waited. “The recurrent non-wage release performed at 110.38% against an absorptive capacity of 98.85%. Under Programme 01 Finance and Administration, the over performance of 233.75% is on account of a supplementary budget release Pension and Wage. Despite this over performance, the absorptive capacity of programme 01 was 93.74% because of an error in release by MoFPED of 3.45bn to pension and wage and delayed recruitment of staff,” a report obtained exclusively by this publication observes. For physical Education and Sports, the over performance of 133.61% was because of supplementary funds to cater for the International Athletics world cross country championships (IAAF). In the face of this over performance by the components enlisted, however, Education Planning and Policy Analysis had the least budget release at 67.69%. This was because the Non-PAF component experienced budget cuts totaling to 5.866bn.
“The Development budget release performed at an average of 90.85% against an absorptive capacity of 99.36%. Project 1273 Support to Higher Education, Science & Technology cumulative release performed at 125.8% due to a supplementary budget release of Ushs. 1.26 bn provided for scholarships. Project 1378 Support to the Implementation of Skilling Uganda Strategy (BTC); Project 1241Development of Uganda Petroleum Institute Kigumba and Project 1370 National High Altitude Training
8 |8 Uganda | Uganda @ 54 @ 54 Hon. Jessica Alupo hands over to Hon. Janet Museveni, the new Minister of Education and Sports
Centre (NHATC) cumulative budget release performed the percentage share of new entrants to Primary One with the worst at 56.00%, 61.88% and 61.71% respectively,” the report eligible age (6 years), referred to as the Net Intake Ratio observes. This is generally attributed to budget release cuts, (NIR) increased by 6 percentage points from 59% (58 boys; $GPLQLVWUDWLYHLVVXHVVSHFLÀFWR3URMHFWDQGSUHOLPLQDU\ JLUOV LQWR ER\V JLUOV LQ activities that were on going for projects 1378 and 1370. The Gender Parity Index measures the progress towards The Absorption capacity for the development projects elimination of gender imbalances in education participation averaged at 99.36% with Akii Bua Olympic Stadium falling and access of girls in relation to the boys. This indicator below the average at 84.7%. This was because the project measures the accessibility of schooling for girls. Similar to was still at the design phase. )<WKHVHFWRUFRQWLQXHGWRPDLQWDLQJHQGHUSDULW\ DWSULPDU\OHYHOLQWKH\HDUXQGHUUHYLHZ,Q)<D In the pre-primary sub sector, the following outcomes were total of 4,122,663 boys and 4,141,654 girls were enrolled in registered. The number of pre-primary schools Increased by primary schools resulting into a Gender Parity Index of 1.00 IURP LQWRLQZKLOHWRWDO implying that for every boy enrolled in primary school, there enrolment increased by 10% from 433,258 (214,996 boys; is at least a girl enrolled. JLUOV LQWR ER\V JLUOV LQ Interventions undertaken by government in secondary sub sector to expand access resulted into the following Gender Parity Index at pre-primary stood at 1.02 in FY outcomes: the sector experienced a decrease of 8% in total VKRZLQJDGLVSDULW\LQIDYRURIJLUOV enrolment in secondary sub-sector from 1,391,250(738,391 ER\V JLUOV LQWRLQ)< In the primary sub sector, the report observes that the The decrease in enrolment at secondary level is attributed General Enrolment Ratio (GER) declined by 8 percentage to the low response rates especially among private schools. SRLQWVIURP ER\V JLUOV LQWR ER\V JLUOV LQZKLOHWKH1HW(QUROPHQW The proportion of USE students to the overall total enrolment Ratio (NER) also declined by 6 percentage points from 97% of secondary education increased by 12% from 817,366 in FY ER\V JLUOV LQWR ER\V JLUOV WR LQ)<DQGDOVRLQFUHDVHGE\ LQ7KLVLVDWWULEXWHGWRWKHDFWXDOSRSXODWLRQ IURP LQ)<WRLQ)<LQVFKRROV FHQVXV ÀJXUHV XVHG LQ FRPSXWDWLRQ WKDQ WKH SURMHFWHG under the UPOLET programme. SRSXODWLRQÀJXUHVWKDWZHUHSUHYLRXVO\XVHG+RZHYHUWKH
Uganda @ 54 | 9 The sector continued to put in place strategies to enable LQ)< increased participation for girls in secondary education. As a UHVXOWWKH*3,LPSURYHGIURPLQ)<WR Through Higher Education School Fees Board, loans were LQ)< DQGWKHWRWDOQXPEHURIVHFRQGDU\VFKRROV provided to 1,273 students (863 male; 410 female); and, in the country that responded to the annual school census established three new universities of Lira, Kabale and Soroti. reduced from 2,950 (1,060 Government; 1,890 Private) in )< WR *RYHUQPHQW 3ULYDWH LQ The report observes the Pupil Teacher Ratio (PTR) improved )<+RZHYHUWKHQXPEHURIVHFRQGDU\VFKRROVERWK E\SRLQWVIURP LQ)<WR LQ)< government and private implementing USE programme also LQFUHDVHGIURPLQ)< JRYHUQPHQWV 7KH WRWDO QXPEHU RI TXDOLÀHG FDUH JLYHUV LQFUHDVHG E\ SULYDWH WR JRYHUQPHQW SULYDWH LQ)< percent from 15,332(1,885 Male; 13,447 Female) in FY WR 0DOH )HPDOH The main outcomes registered by Business, Technical and Vocational Education and Training Education sub sector The Pupil Classroom Ratio (PCR) declined by 3 points from (BTVET) include the overall enrolment in BTVET increased LQ)<WR LQ)<7KLVLVDWWULEXWHG by 16.2% from 111,479 students that is Female:48,012 and to the mismatch that exists between classroom construction 0DOH LQ)<WR )HPDOH DQG and the number of pupils 0DOH LQ)< DQGWKHJHQGHUSDULW\LQFUHDVHG IURPLQ )< WR LQ)<7KHPDOH The Pupil Latrine Stances Ratio declined by 2 points from students continue to out-number the female students LQ)<WR LQ)<7KLVLVDWWULEXWHGWR in BTVET institutions. This is due to a number of factors the increase in enrolment without a proportionate increase including the current perceptions on male versus female in latrine stance construction. labour intensive roles. The Pupil Teacher Ratio in the primary sub-sector improved In the University sub sector, the main achievements include, by 3 percentage points from 46:1 (54:1government; 29:1 according to NCHE, total enrolment in University and Other SULYDWH LQWR JRYHUQPHQW SULYDWH ,QVWLWXWLRQV JUHZ E\ IURP LQ )< WR LQ)<
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They bought 10 district that in June this year received Shs68.5million bulls and three female cows in August,” from the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP). She said the cows acquired under the programme are being M looked after from her family farm. The project cows have ear The Programme run under the Ministry of Gender, Labour and tags to distinguish them from the rest feeding on the same 6RFLDO'HYHORSPHQWLVDLPHGDWÀJKWLQJSRYHUW\DQG.LUXKXUD farm. They are taking all measures to ensure they survive and is one of the 20 local governments where UWEP was initiated. do well. Their prayer is that they don’t fall sick because the cost of treatment is hefty. They intend to sell the bulls after “Our group already existed; we were collecting and lending they have fattened. The proceeds will help them pay back the money amongst ourselves. When we heard about this PRQH\JRWIURPJRYHUQPHQWDQGDOVRUHWDLQVRPHSURÀW Programme, we applied for funding and we were considered,” Ms Rukurwe, a member of Bijubwe Bakazi Tukore Women “We bought three adult cows because in less than a year they Group, narrates. The group composed of 13 women from would be able to produce. We will then sell milk and their Bijubwe village in Nyakashashara Sub-county chose an offspring to pay back the money or sell them and retain off- enterprise in bull fattening. springs,” Rukurwe revealed. “After getting the money, our group’s procurement committee To Rukurwe, like her other group members, they are optimistic moved around in the cattle keeping communities where they they will rely less on their husbands to cater for the basic Members of Rushororo Women Goat Rearing group with some of the goats they rear in Kanyaryeru Sub-county in Kiruhura District 18 | Uganda @ 54 Kiruhura/Members of Rushororo Women Goat receiving group attend a meeting. household needs like sending children to school, paying medical %H\RQGPRQWKVWKHJURXSZLOOKDYHWRSD\LQWHUHVWRIÀYH bills and other requirements once UWEP’s aid starts bearing per cent. The recovery period does not exceed three years. In fruit. case of any loss of the bulls or goats, members must report to &RPPXQLW\'HYHORSPHQW2IÀFHUVZLWKOHWWHUVIURP/&RIÀFLDOV ,Q.LUXKXUDGLVWULFWIRXUEHQHÀFLDU\JURXSVDUHORFDWHGLQ.LQRQL DQGYHWHULQDU\RIÀFHUVFRQÀUPLQJWKHORVVDQGWKHHIIRUWVPDGH Sub-county, Nyakashashara has two groups while Kanyaryeru has to safeguard them. two and Burembe Sub-county has one. Each group has between 12 and15 members. “They committed themselves to all the conditions. The money is QRWGLIÀFXOWWRXVHEHFDXVHWKHVHSHRSOHDUHERUURZLQJPRQH\ Under the Programme, women are required to form groups of from lending organisations and individuals at exorbitant interest between 10 to 15 members before accessing the funds. and they pay back. This one is interest free and they have much time to pay back,” says Ms Abaho. The programme’s district Focal Point Person, Ms Fortunate $EDKRH[SODLQVWKDWDWRWDORI JURXSVIURPÀYHVXEFRXQWLHV 7KH\ DUH FRQÀGHQW WKH\ ZLOO PDQDJH WKH HQWHUSULVHV EHFDXVH ZHUH WKH ÀUVW WR H[SUHVV LQWHUHVW LQ DFFHVVLQJ IXQGLQJ XQGHU women tend to be genuine in business, are eager to learn and UWEP when the programme kicked off last year. Out of these, make good investment decisions. 19 groups were reviewed by the district and 10 were approved from which the ministry approved only nine for funding. Besides constituting the largest portion of the Ugandan population, women also form majority of economically active It turned out that all the selected groups wanted to engage in population. goat and bull fattening enterprises. They received the money in the range of Shs7 to Shs8 million each. Women on a daily basis go out to fend for their families. The cultural and social settings in the country dictate that they “When the programme was announced, the district held various shoulder the largest burden of responsibility at household level. stakeholder meetings at the sub-county and district levels. With relatively little wage employment in Uganda, the women Local communities were sensitised on programme modalities. struggle through various ways, but mainly by engaging in petty We also had a radio talk show and ran spot messages to reach business, to earn an income. out to many individuals.” Abaho said. Ms Abaho says that for now the applicants are overwhelming The groups have to pay back the money within a year at a zero against a minute budget allocation. Nevertheless, the prospects interest rate. It will then be loaned to other groups. RIZRPHQJURZLQJLQHQWUHSUHQHXUVKLSDUHÀQDOO\FRPLQJWROLIH with the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP). Uganda @ 54 | 19 Otuke women choose produce buying and selling enterprises :HKDYHDOUHDG\VWDUWHGUHDOL]LQJVRPHEHQHÀWVIURPWKLVSURMHFW(YHQRXUKXVEDQGVQRZUHVSHFW us because they have seen us doing something that can support the family and this has reduced on “WKHFDVHVRIGRPHVWLFYLROHQFH:HDUHVHHLQJWKLVDVDOLIHFKDQJLQJSURMHFWDQGZHWKDQNWKRVHZKR DUHEHKLQGLWIRUWKHLQLWLDWLYH:HEHOLHYHWKLVSURMHFWZLOOJLYHXVVWUHQJWKWRIHHGRXUIDPLOLHVDQG educate our children,” Auma explains. tuke district lies in the women groups across Otuke District that have northern part of Uganda started engaging in various enterprises that will and was formerly a part enable them provide for their families and explore of Lira District, which is their full potential to contribute more productively Oa reknown produce hub in the to the country’s economic development. Thanks to country. the Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP). It is therefore no coincidence that majority of the women Most groups received their funding in August groups that have accessed and they have just started implementing their funding under the new Uganda entrepreneurship activities. Women Entrepreneurship Programme (UWEP) are engaged 7KHJURXSVVD\WKH\KDYHDOUHDG\LGHQWLÀHGPDUNHWV in produce buying and selling as for their produce in Lira, Karamoja and Soroti. preferred enterprises. The groups include; Barilec Women’s Group in Ms Mary Grace Okori, who is a Okwang Sub-county that received Shs6,390,000 and member of BediWoro Women it is engaged in produce buying and selling. In the Group located right in the heart same Sub-county, Barlwala Women’s Piggery Project of Otuke Town Council, says most received Shs7,880,000, while in Otuke Town Council: women in the area recognised Mara En Teko and BediWoro Women’s groups received that produce buying and selling Shs10m each. is a kind of enterprise that can earn them returns faster given Others are: Abongotoyo B Acan Mwole and Baracuga the booming market in that B United Women’s groups, all in Orum Sub-county, sector. which received Shs6,456,000 and Shs6,438,000 respectively for produce buying and selling. Moo %HQHÀFLDULHV RI WKH IXQG Yao Women’s group in Olilim Sub-county received managed by the Ministry of Shs10m, and they are in produce buying and selling. The Community Gender, Labour and Social Development Development are supposed to invest the money they 7KH 'LVWULFW &RPPXQLW\ 'HYHORSPHQW 2IÀFHU 3J½GIV '(3 JHWHDUQSURÀWSD\EDFNZKDW·VGXHWRJRYHUQPHQW Silvester Ocen, says market for produce is available Otuke, Mr DQGUHWDLQWKHSURÀWVWRVXVWDLQWKHLUHQWHUSULVHV7KH even within the district. Silvester Ocen. recollected money is pooled again and reallocated to other women groups under a revolving approach. ´2WXNHKDVQRWUHFHLYHGVXIÀFLHQWUDLQVWKLVVHDVRQ and people have not done so well in terms of food Ms Martina Abeja, the chairperson Mara En Teko, stocks.So the women groups go and buy food stuffs another group in Otuke Town Council that has from other districts, bring to Otuke and sell,” he received funding, agrees that “When we put money says. in produce buying, we are most certain that we shall PDNHSURÀWVWRSD\EDFNWRJRYHUQPHQWDQGUHPDLQ Poverty levels are still high in the district with 80 with some to continue growing our businesses.” per cent of the population living below the poverty line. The average household income is Shs170,000 They are not alone. They are just part of the eight per annum, according to a 2013 Stakeholder and 20 | Uganda @ 54 Institutional Mapping report. Ocen says the major challenge for women has been access to credit to inject into their businesses. Now with UWEP the women are enthusiastic to realise their potential in business. ´$VORFDOOHDGHUVZHDUHRSWLPLVWLFWKDWÀQDOO\WKLV3URJUDPPH will have great impact on the standards of living and improving livelihoods at household level” Mr Ocen says. “In the long-run, I want to buy goats that I can rear and later sell to support the education of my children,” Grace Okori revealed. According to Ms Christine Auma, the general secretary of Mara En Teko Women’s group, raising school fees and feeding their families are among the major issues affecting many women in rural areas in the Otuke District. ´:H KDYH DOUHDG\ VWDUWHG UHDOL]LQJ VRPH EHQHÀWV IURP WKLV project. Even our husbands now respect us because they have seen us doing something that can support the family and this has reduced on the cases of domestic violence. We are seeing this as a life-changing project and we thank those who are behind it for the initiative. We believe this project will give us strength to feed our families and educate our children,” Auma explains. Mara En Teko has already stocked 15 sacks of beans and the group intends to sell the produce later in Otuke, Abim and Kotido. Mr LucanoOkello, the chairman LC1 of Jingcunyi cell said they A member of Bedi Woro group. will monitor the programme closely to ensure proper use of the funds. Members of Mara En Teko buy produce at Apur market in Otuke District. Photo by Bill Oketch. 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51,080,000 8 86 Partial payment, June 2016 4 NAKASON- 45,886,300 19 0 %HLQJSURFHVVHG GOLA 4 NAKASON- 45,886,300 19 242 June 2016 GOLA 5 MAYUGE 56,864,000 14 0 $ZDLWLQJ&$2VDS- proval 5 MAYUGE 56,864,000 14 192 June 2016 6 OTUKE 67,164,000 8 8 $OOJURXSVKDYHUH- 6 OTUKE 67,164,000 8 117 June 2016 FHLYHGIXQGV 7 KAMULI 60,580,000 15 174 June 2016 7 KAMULI 60,580,000 15 0 $ZDLWLQJ&$2VDS- KALIRO 35,000,000 %DODQFHRQ¿UVW proval GLVEXUVHPHQW 421,011,300 94 34 8 WAKISO 201,166,100 28 346 9 KAMPALA 128,200,000 17 185 10 KALANGALA 52,525,000 11 134 8]TISJ7IGXSVJSVXLI*YRHIH;SQIR+VSYTW 11 NTUNGAMO 41,949,000 8 101 Sector Frequency Percentage 12 BUNDIBUGYO 61,000,000 12 169 $FFRPPRGDWLRQDQGIRRG6HUYLFHV 18 13 KAYUNGA 82,618,000 25 323 $JULFXOWXUH 147 14 NEBBI 94,387,500 25 372 $UWV(QWHUWDLQPHQW 5HFUHDWLRQ 18 20 KIBAALE 84,680,480 21 279 +HDOWKDQGVRFLDOZRUNDFWLYLWLHV 1 16 KITGUM 172,945,000 30 488 0DQXIDFWXULQJDQG3URFHVVLQJ 21 16 .RERNR 61,515,500 34 444 6HUYLFHV 3 18 .DWDNZL 141,604,200 24 291 7UDGH ,QGXVWU\ 2 19 Moroto 83,724,000 11 143 7UDQVSRUWDWLRQDQGVWRUDJH 1 20 Kole 46,399,000 9 130 :DWHUVXSSO\ 1 1,708,725,080 349 4,627 :KROHVDOHDQG5HWDLO7UDGH 137 Total 349 100.0 7XEXYWSJ2YQFIVSJ+VSYTWXLEXLEZIVIGIMZIH;)* *YRHWSRXLIMV%GGSYRXW 1SWXSJXLIKVSYTWLEZIXLEXLEZIFIIRJYRHIHEVIIRKEKIHMREKVMGYPXYVI SN DISTRICT WOMEN ENTERPRISE Number Remarks MR TEVXMGYPEV JSPPS[IH F] [LSPIWEPI ERH VIXEMP XVEHI 1SWX FUND of groups SJXLI[SQIRMR[LSPIWEPIERHVIXEMPGEXIKSV]EVIIRKEKIHMRTVSHYGI FY]MRKERHWIPPMRKXLEXMW AMOUNT No of that have (UGX) groups received approved funds -X LEW FIIR RSXIH XLEX [SQIR MHIRXM½IH IRXIVTVMWIW [LIVI XLI] LEZI GSQTEVEXMZIEHZERXEKI*SVI\EQTPIMR/MWSVSHMWXVMGXQSWXSJXLIKVSYTW EVIJYRHIHJSVMVMWLTSXEXSKVS[MRKMR/MVYLYVEHMWXVMGXQENSVMX]EVIMR 1 KISORO 70,937,000 21 17 DUHEHLQJSUR- FYPPJEXXIRMRK-R&YWSKEVIKMSRQSWXSJXLIKVSYTWEVIMRTVSHYGIFY]MRK FHVVHG ERHWIPPMRKNYWXPMOIMRXLI2SVXLERH;IWX2MPI-R&YRHMFYK]SHMWXVMGX 2 KIRUHURA 68,500,000 9 9 $OOZRPHQ¶VJURXSV QSWXSJXLI[SQIRKVSYTWEVIMR'SGSEFY]MRKERHWIPPMRK KDYHUHFHLYHGIXQGV *SVJYVXLIVMRJSVQEXMSRGSRXEGX 9KERHE;SQIR)RXVITVIRIYVWLMT4VSKVEQQI 9;)4 1MRMWXV]SJ+IRHIV0EFSYVERH7SGMEP(IZIPSTQIRX 43&S\/EQTEPE9KERHE`8IP `)QEMP TW$QKPWHKSYK 26 | Uganda @ 54 Works and transport ministry in Sectoral Policies, Laws and Institutional Reforms he Ministry of Works and Transport is at various stages The formulation of the rural transport policy is another in development of sectoral policies and implementing policy under development which is in line with an improved planned institutional reforms. The Policies, Laws and policy framework in the country to facilitate the effective institutional reforms in the pipeline are intended to contribution of rural transport to poverty reduction and Tmake the sector more effective. growth. The policy recommendations proposed for rural transport emphasise integration of rural transport within Among the sectoral policy being developed is the Non- the rural development framework, and a closer linkage with Motorised Transport (NMT) Policy Non-Motorised Transport, the agriculture sector. The Policy was developed in 2013 according to the ministry’s annual sector performance report and approved by the Ministry. A monitoring and Evaluation framework for the policy is being prepared. In addition the policy will be disseminated to all stakeholders such as local 7KRXJK ZDONLQJ DQG F\FOLQJ ZKLFK LV VSHFLÀFDOO\ FRYHUHG E\ authorities, Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and the policy is the most used means of transport in Uganda, it is Fisheries and Ministry of Local Government. the most neglected and unsafe mode of transport with largest QXPEHURIURDGWUDIÀFIDWDOLWLHV\HDUDIWHU\HDU The draft national transport policy and strategy was developed to provide an enabling environment by addressing challenges The objective of this policy is to redress this situation through such as Poor Quality of Transport Services. the achievement of recognizing walking and cycling in transport planning, design, and infrastructure provision. Unexploited Regional Role of the Transport System, Lack of integration of different transport modes, Urban Environmental The provision of safe infrastructure for pedestrians and cyclists; Pollution as a result of transport activities, Lack of an Urban resources for walking and cycling is to be mainstreamed in the RUUXUDO7UDQVSRUW3ROLF\,QVWLWXWLRQDO'HÀFLHQFLHV)LQDQFLQJ DJHQFLHV· ÀQDQFLDO SODQQLQJ WKH GHYHORSPHQW DQG DGRSWLRQ needs of the Sector are some of the challenges the Ministry by all agencies of universal design standards that provide wants to address. access to all pedestrians and cyclists; and an improvement in regulation and enforcement to enhance safety for pedestrians The Road Safety Policy was developed with a vision to have and cyclists. safe roads for safe road users. The overall goals of the policy are: to annually reduce the number of accidents, fatalities “The Non-motorised policy was approved by the Ministry and a and injuries on Ugandan roads; to put in place an effective monitoring and evaluation framework is under development,” road safety management and coordination institution as well says, the performance report. DV WKH QHFHVVDU\ OHJDO SROLF\ DGPLQLVWUDWLYH DQG ÀQDQFLDO foundation for road safety interventions. Uganda @ 54 | 27 The ministry is establishing systems and analysis tools that Water Transport can be revamped in the country. As a result, provide reliable and timely statistical information about road Principles for Drafting of an Inland Water Transport Bill have WUDIÀF DFFLGHQWV ZKLFK ZLOO XQGHUSLQ GHFLVLRQPDNLQJ RQ EHHQ ÀQDOLVHG $ &HUWLÀFDWH RI )LQDQFLDO ,PSOLFDWLRQV ZDV road safety interventions as well as put in place cost effective granted by MoFPED. road design and maintenance procedures that consider all road users and assist safe driving and improve safe road user The other bill is the Uganda Construction Industry Control EHKDYLRUWKURXJKLQFUHDVHGDZDUHQHVVRIWUDIÀFUHJXODWLRQV (UCICO) Bill. The main objective of the UCICO Bill is to and accident risks. establish a Construction Industry Commission to regulate the construction industry to ensure compliance with standards The Ministry is currently improving the competence of drivers and guidelines thereby reducing the burden of shoddy through better training and testing standards; improve the work. Solicitor General in a letter dated 7th April, 2015 YHKLFOH ÁHHW QRWDEO\ WUXFNV DQG SXEOLF VHUYLFH YHKLFOHV recommended for a redraft of the Bill, the Bill to take on through better inspection procedures and enforcement of a new title “The Uganda Construction Industry Commission appropriate vehicle standards. Bill 2015” and also to take into account the provisions of the Public Finance Management Act, Act No 3 of 2015. The Ministry is in the initial stages of developing the national air policy and terms of reference for a consultant have EHHQÀQDOLVHG:KHQGHYHORSHGWKHSROLF\ZLOOHQFDSVXODWH civil aviation policy and include such matters as unmanned aerial vehicles (drones), military and policy aircraft to ensure future sustainability of the air transport sector. Axle Load Control Policy Overloading of vehicles leads to premature deterioration and failure of the road pavement before its intended design life, which presumes normal loading. Premature deterioration of road infrastructure leads to higher road maintenance costs and damaged roads result in increased Vehicle Operating Costs (VOC) and high transportation costs. In short, overloading generates a multiplier effect through the entire economy. A study was commissioned in 2014 to review inland water transport laws in order to harmonize them within the region MV Ssese plying Bukakata-Luuku route on Lake Victoria. and update them to international standards so that Inland President Yoweri Museveni-commissions-Gulu-Atyaka-road. 28 | Uganda @ 54 Uganda National Roads Authority 7+(5(38%/,&2)8*$1'$ Aerial View of the completed Nambigirwa Bridge (Uganda’s longesr Bridge) on the Kampala - Entebbe Expressway The Management and Staff of China Communications Construction Company congratulate the President of Republic of Uganda H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the Cabinet , the Parliament and all Ugandans on this auspicious occasion of Uganda’s 54th Independence Anniversary. We are proud of contributing to infrastructural development through construction of the best road network. %&398'''' -RXSXEPXLIVIEVIQSVIXLER[LSPP]S[RIHERHLSPHMRKWYFWMHMEVMIW SJ''''ERHXLI]LEZIFIIRIWXEFPMWLIHHYVMRKHMJJIVIRXLMWXSVMGEP LMRE 'SQQYRMGEXMSRW 'SRWXVYGXMSR 'SQTER] 0XH TIVMSHW7SQIEVIGIRXYV]SPHGSQTERMIWXLEX[IVIGVIEXIHEXXLI LIVIMREJXIV VIJIVVIH XS EW ±''''² MW E *SVXYRI IRHSJ5YMRK(]REWX]ERHXLYW[MXRIWWIHXLIWXVYKKPIERHPMFIVEXMSR GSQTER] WTIGMEPM^IH MR XLI MRZIWXQIRX HIWMKR ERH SJXLI'LMRIWIREXMSRWSQIEVIFEGOFSRIWXEXIS[RIHIRXIVTVMWIW GSRWXVYGXMSR SJ TSVXW[EXIV[E]WVSEHWFVMHKIWVEMP[E]W XLEXLEZIKVS[RXSKIXLIV[MXLXLI4ISTPI´W6ITYFPMGSJ'LMRE WSQI 'EMVTSVXWQYRMGMTEP[SVOWERHSXLIVXVERWTSVXMRJVEWXVYGXYVI'''' EVINSMRXZIRXYVIWERHPMWXIHGSQTERMIWXLEXLEZIIQIVKIHJVSQXLI LEWSTIVEXMSRWMRSZIV GSYRXVMIWERHVIKMSRWEGVSWWXLI[SVPH XMHISJVIJSVQERHSTIRMRKYT7YGLEPSRKLMWXSV]LEWEHHIHXSXLI '''' MW XLI PEVKIWX TSVX HIWMKRIV FYMPHIV ERH XLI PEVKIWX HMZIVWMX]SJGSVTSVEXIGYPXYVIEX'''' MRXIVREXMSREPTVSNIGXGSRXVEGXSVERHHIWMKRIVMR'LMREEW[IPPEWE .YWX EW XLI ZMWMSR±;IEVI &YMPHMRK E GSRRIGXIH;SVPH²MRHMGEXIW PIEHMRKVSEHWERHFVMHKIWHIWMKRIV FYMPHIVSRISJXLIXSTHVIHKMRK ''''GSQQMXWLIVWIPJXSXLIQMWWMSRSJGVIEXMRKERIEWMP]EGGIWWMFPI GSQTERMIW ERH XLI PEVKIWX GSRXEMRIV GVERI QERYJEGXYVIV MR XLI [SVPHERHEHLIVIWXSXLIGSVIZEPYIW±GVIEXMRKUYEPMX]TVSHYGXWJSV [SVPH7LILEWQEVZIPIHXLI[SVPH[MXLSRITVSNIGXEJXIVERSXLIV GYWXSQIVW STTSVXYRMXMIW JSV IQTPS]IIW FIRI½XW JSV WLEVILSPHIVW WYGLEW7YXSRK=ERKX^I6MZIV&VMHKI7LERKLEM=ERKWLER(IIT[EXIV ERH[IEPXLJSVXLIWSGMIX]² 4SVX=ERKX^I6MZIV)WXYEV](IIT[EXIV'LERRIPERH&IMNMRK7LERKLEM ,MKL7TIIH6EMP[E]EW[IPPEWXLISRKSMRK,SRK/SRK>LYLEM1EGEY &VMHKI4VSNIGX A Team of health workers providing free medical services to the local An Education facility for street children in Moroto District community in Kibaale Uganda @ 54 | 29 ''''TYXW½REPXSYGLIWSRXLI/EQTEPE)RXIFFI)\TVIWW[E] /EQTEPE)RXIFFI )\TVIWW[E]TVSKVIWW VIWMHIRXSJXLI6ITYFPMGSJ9KERHE=S[IVM1YWIZIRM PEYRGLIH GSRWXVYGXMSR SJ XLI /EQTEPE )RXIFFI )\TVIWW[E]MR2SZIQFIV7MRGIXLIREPSXSJ TVSKVIWW LEW FIIR QEHI MR VIEPMWMRK XLI GSYRXV]´W 4FMKKIWX MRZIWXQIRXW MR XLI VSEHW MRJVEWXVYGXYVI 7SSR Part of the completed section of Kampala - Entebbe Express highway. XLIVIEJXIVXLIKVSYRHFVIEOMRKGIVIQSR]EPPXLI)RKMRIIVW ERH''''MRWXEPPIHXLIIUYMTQIRXRIIHIHMRTPEGISRXLI WMXIERH[SVOWXEVXIHMQQIHMEXIP] %XXLIQSQIRXGSRWXVYGXMSRMWRIEVMRKGSQTPIXMSRERHMW SRKSMRKEGGSVHMRKXSTPERERHVIEH]XSHIPMZIVEWTPERRIH Upgrading Kibaale church road Repairing Kisubi University roads in Kawuku - Entebbe 30 | Uganda @ 54 The Health Sector Uganda National Health laboratory services headquarters Uganda @ 54 | 31 Public Health Laboratories VќLYX\HSP[`ZLY]PJLZ The Central Public Competencies Health Laboratories Services (CPHLS) CPHLS Laboratorians are much more proud of is an arm of the themselves and their laboratories than they were Ministry of Health, 36years ago; they are better trained to any level coordinating they care to reach. Uganda’s laboratory services. It has Rather than the lab technicians and assistants recently moved into limitations of 36years ago, they now attain the its own premises at level of Laboratory Technologists and progress Butabika, courtesy WR0HGLFDO/DERUDWRULHV6FLHQWLÀF2IÀFHUVZLWK of the Presidential bachelor’s degrees and can progress to Masters Emergency Fund for Degrees and then to PhD. AIDS Relief grant through the Centre For the entire country, CPHLS handles the entire for Disease Control viral load for HIV testing, Early Infant Diagnosis (CDC) Uganda. (EID), to establish the infants HIV status, Sickle FHOOWHVWLQJWUDQVIHUUHGWKURXJKDSRVWRIÀFH Mr Steven Aisu courier to CPHLS door step at Butabika from the who moved from 100 Ministry of Health laboratories around the heading the country. Hepatitis B screening will start soon. Laboratory services at Mulago National The viral specimens are straight away sent to the Referral Hospital Viral Research Institute the bacterial samples are laboratories heads promptly handled and analysed with the required CPHLS since 2012. quality professionalism. Mr Steven Aisu, steering National “We have reliable equipment and a network Health Laboratories Public health for conveying the referral of samples from the Services In existence for 36 years now, this Service differs remotest parts of the country to the centre from the Government Analytical Laboratories and the return of the analyses outcomes,” Aisu DW1DNDVHUR:DQGHJH\DUXQE\WKH0LQLVWU\RI explains. Internal Affairs. Samples are delivered in a maximum time of Mr Aisu explains that it is in the area of public three days; their processing in the laboratory health, concerning itself with the clinical analysis takes a maximum time of two days and the of specimen from patients; it does surveillance patient in the remotest area gets the analysis on disease outbreaks, thus tests samples like results at most in seven days. cholera, typhoid, and meningitis coming from outbreak areas. Issues to do with Ebola, Marburg, ´%HFDXVHRIWKHHIÀFLHQF\HQDEOLQJWKHGHOLYHU\ N1H1 and other viruses are the business of the of the samples in bulk, hence the daily runs Virus Research Institute. including the weekends, the reagents’ suppliers have reduced their charges for the supplies from “We collaborate with laboratories outside the about US$30 to about US$5 for a test of EID; and Ministry of Health to combat those diseases that from US$60 to US$10 for viral load analysis. The affect humans and animals in the context of ‘one time it takes from sample collection to delivery health’; the veterinary and agriculture teams,” of results is down from about 1 month to seven he elaborates. days and the cost from US$30 to US$5,” Aisu points out. 32 | Uganda @ 54 He says, “Whereas the courier system is smooth, government, as long as CPHLS buys their reagents, VRPHDUHDVDUHGLIÀFXOWWRUHDFK WKHLVODQGV which is their core business; they thus maintain mountains and isolated terrains, hence our the equipment--this is the placement or reagent consideration of adopting drones in the collection rental method of supplying equipment. “CPHLS and delivery of samples from such areas.” has biomedical engineers for equipment that is not under the placement arrangement; centrifuges, However, the heavy contribution to CPHLS human refrigerators, incubators--those that do not work resource maintenance, some of the equipment, with consumables,” Aisu elaborates. the reagents, the US$88m construction of the new complex and US$2m for equipment are all donor- The high volume of reagent consumption is met and a challenge that needs to be addressed. LQGLFDWLYHRIDKLJKWUDIÀFRI/DERUDWRU\VHUYLFHV use, even when the population is healthy. It is This institution is pushing for a Bill for tabling in the labs that establish the state of health in a parliament for a vote that will meet the national population that is conscious of the need for regular ODERUDWRU\VHUYLFHVFRVWVHYHU\ÀQDQFLDO\HDU health audits. Individuals need to seek laboratory quality laboratory services are quite expensive, they services to rule out the possibility of illnesses, some call for competent skills, well maintained calibrated of them lethal, creeping upon them. equipment as required by the manufacturers and XQLQWHUUXSWHGUHDJHQWVLQÁRZ ,WLVIRUWKLVUHDVRQWKDWDFFUHGLWDWLRQDFFHSWDELOLW\ through an outsider institution audit of CPHLS processes for conformity to international standards Equipment Handling is necessary. It has thus enrolled its 100 hubs into The Ministry has medical engineers in its seven the accreditation process and pushing 15 of them ‘medical’ regions under training to maintain the for accreditation by a South African Accrediting medical equipment. CPHLS has two resident bio- System by 2017. They already produce good results medical engineers for its equipment. Further, the and meet the requirements for international American International Health Alliance, CPHLS’s standards, hence assured competent output. partner is training bio-medical engineers in medical equipment maintenance. CPHLS will similarly invite the South African National Accrediting System to audit its Butabika Most of the equipment for viral load, EIT and procedures and functionality for accreditation. sickle cell has been supplied at no cost to the Due diligence Uganda @ 54 | 33 MINISTRY OF HEALTH Uganda Health Systems Strengthening Project (UHSSP) THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA Main Block at Entebbe GH-Commissioned by HE the President of the Republic of Uganda on May 3, 2016 World Bank supports Hospital and Health Center IV renovations Introduction hospitals will be handed over in due course. Renovation of Moyo General Hospital is now estimated at 88%. In line with the major objective of helping the country deliver the Minimum Health Care Package to Ugandans, the Government of Hospital Cost of Construction Status Uganda received a loan worth $130million from the World Bank LQWRDPRQJRWKHUWKLQJVÀQDQFHWKHUHQRYDWLRQRIKRVSLWDOV 1. Moroto Regional USD 8,842,878.01 Completed and health Center IVs in the country. The renovations under the Referral Hospital stewardship of the Ministry of Health are being undertaken under 2. Iganga General USD 4,933,884.78 Completed the Uganda Health Systems Strengthening Project (UHSSP). Hospital 3. Entebbe General USD 7,034,065.42 Completed The Project was initially scheduled to close on July 2015 and was Hospital granted a no cost extension until 30 June 2017. Cumulatively, US$ 4. Mityana General USD 6,090,929.55 Completed 104.34 million has been disbursed representing 80.26% of the total Hospital funding while 25.66 US$ awaits to be disbursed by June 2017. The outstanding funds are committed to the running contracts 5. Nakaseke General USD 5,090,612.33. Completed especially on renovation of health facilities and procurement of Hospital medical equipment. 6. Moyo General Hospital USD 4,541,931.32. Ongoing 7. Nebbi General USD 3,876,045.19 Completed Summary of Project Performance during FY 2015/16. Hospital 8. Anaka General USD 6,545,233.13. Completed &RQVWUXFWLRQ RI +RVSLWDOV ZDV ÀQDOL]HG DQG WKH\ DUH QRZ LQ Hospital use including: Nakaseke, Mityana, Kiryandongo, Anaka, Moroto, Entebbe, and Iganga and Nebbi. The renovation of Entebbe Grade 9. Kiryandongo General USD 5,654,229.90 Completed B Hospital was commissioned by His Excellency the President of Hospital the Republic of Uganda on Tuesday May 3, 2016. Other completed 34 | Uganda @ 54 In May 2015, the Ministry embarked on the renovation of 26 HCIVs Human resource training and these include: Kasanda, Kiganda, Ngoma, Mwera, Kyantungo, Cumulatively, 797 health workers were offered scholarships under Kikamulo, Kabuyanda, Mwizi, Kitwe, Rubare, Aboke, Aduku, the hard to reach and priority courses categories between FY Bwijanga, Bullisa, Padibe, Atyak, Obongi, Pakwach, Buvuma, DQG)<0RVWRIWKHVHKHDOWKZRUNHUVFRPSOHWHG Budondo, Ntenjeru-Kojja, Buyinja, Nankoma, Bugono, Kiyunga, their courses and are now serving in their respective health Kibuku and Budaka. At each of these HCIVs, either a maternity facilities. Whereas no new scholarships are being awarded, tuition block or operating theatre is being constructed; and in addition, fees and allowances are being paid to the continuing students. 40,000 litre water storage tank, a solar borehole, and walkways linking the new building to existing ones. Overall 90% of the Transport scheduled works have been completed. Several of the health Additionally, all the nine hospitals under renovation have received centres have been handed over and are now in use. ambulances for help in the referral system. The Health Center IVs were also supported with Double Cabin Pick-ups and Motor Medical Equipment cycles to help in the general transportation at the hospital. The The Ministry procured general, specialized and Emergency project further procured two medicine trucks for National Medical Obstetric and Neonatal Care equipment and this was distributed Stores to help in delivery of drugs and other health supplies. WR+RVSLWDOVDQG+&,9VFRXQWU\ZLGHEHWZHHQ)< Two workshop vehicles were also supplied to help in the repair DQG)<DQGLVLQXVH6RPHRIWKHHTXLSPHQWZDVUHMHFWHG of hospital equipment. The Uganda Health System Strengthening by the National Committee on Medical Equipment. The suppliers Project (UHSSP) is now on truck. All necessary measures have withdrew the rejected equipment and currently evaluation of bids been put in place to control the quality of works and the project is ongoing and the equipment will be replaced by February 2017. will be delivered to the required standards President Yoweri Museveni Launching Anaka in Nwoya District UgandaUganda @ 54 @ |54 35 | 35 T Block, Operating theatre and cooking stoves at Kiryandongo General Hospital 36 36| Uganda | Uganda @ 54 @ 54 Duty room for female ward, Isolation ward T-block, and Staff houses at Nebbi General Hospital UgandaUganda @ 54 @ |54 37 | 37 Nakaseke hospital new casualty ward with its operating theatre already in use 38 38| Uganda | Uganda @ 54 @ 54 Theatre block at Budondo HCIV top, Maternity ward at Ntejeru Kojja, middle left, Maternity ward at Buyinja HCIV middle right; and maternity ward at Mwizi HCIV bottom. UgandaUganda @ 54 @ |54 39 | 39 Butabika gets set for autonomy utabika, the National Mental later transform Butabika into a Centre of Excellence. Referral Hospital is mandated to offer super-specialised How it works mental health services and give Blimited general health care services Dr David Basangwa who has served this hospital since to the population nearby. 1994 is now a senior consultant and the Executive It provides training to students from Director. He notes that science appreciates mental universities and tertiary institutions illness as a biological disease rather than the in the area of mental health. It also erroneous uninformed perception of bygone times carries out research, it is a referral for that it was a function of curses, witchcraft and regional hospitals, and ensures that traditionally related spiritual problems. What goes mental health care continues to be ZURQJ ZKHUH FDQ EH VFLHQWLÀFDOO\ HVWDEOLVKHG DQG improved. It also advises Government LWFDQEHÀ[HG on mental health policies and plays the role of advocacy for the mentally Patients are assessed to establish the trigger of their ill. problem; a treatment programme is mapped out and instituted until the patient improves. A discharge Butabika Hospital was founded in programme then lets them out on trial basis, during EXW RIÀFLDOO\ RSHQHG LQ which time they are followed up until they normalise. Mental health care in Uganda had started in 1935, with custodial care at Of the various forms of mental illnesses, the DFRQÀQHPHQWLQ+RLPD WKHPHQWDOO\ most common are the mood disorders, when a ill would be locked away and only patient is either very excited or very low-spirited, released when they improved or had and constitute over 30% of hospital admissions. WRGLHLQFRQÀQHPHQWZLWKRXWIRUPDO Depression starts with an individual feeling, unwell treatment. and unhappy. Prof George Kirya, In 1945 some rudimentary mental health care ,W TXDOLÀHV DV GHSUHVVLRQ LI LW SHUVLVWV DQG DSSHDUV Butabika Hospital started at ‘Old’ Mulago Hospital from a ward that in an individual’s life for the most part of the day Board Chairperson was created for the purpose. Ten years later, this for two weeks or more. The patients are also weak, hospital was founded and now, like Mulago Heart cannot work or study; they lose appetite while others Institute, Butabika has set in motion the process of over-eat; they do not communicate with others hence graduating to full Autonomy. The process of drafting isolate themselves. Some have poor sleep while a Bill for the transformation has started and should Dr David Basangwa, Butabika Hospital ([HFXWLYH'LUHFWRU Staff Nurses and Students get set for work 40 | Uganda @ 54 Butabika Hospital Director, Dr David Basangwa leaads MPs on an appraisal tour of the hospital others oversleep. They commonly lose sexual drive and interest in WKHYHU\GLIÀFXOWFDVHV:DUGVZLOOEHVHWXSIRUKDQGOLQJDGGLFWLRQ what they previously enjoyed like sports or music. problems, mood disorders, psychological trauma, children with mental health problems and the elderly. Some patients with mood disorders present with excitement, the opposite of depression. They are excessively happy, laughing out of Outreach the blue and have exaggerated energy. Manic depressive illness refers to a condition which shifts from Butabika Hospital has a ‘community and recovery programme’ that depression to mania and it also called bipolar as it consists of both ensures that patients who recover are supported to return home. the two poles of depression and mania. They otherwise depend on the hospital for all their needs until they are discharged, having been neglected by the relatives. Even when The other common mental illness is schizophrenia, a disorder they are discharged, the communities send them back. The hospital affecting roughly one per cent of every population in the developed has therefore made deliberate efforts to help resettle the patients or developing world. It presents with disorganised thoughts and by sensitising their families into accepting them. This is carried out behaviour and depicts what the common man would look at as by the community and recovery programme through the outreach mental illness. The patients eat from garbage and will not care what activities run at six centres in a radius of 30km around Kampala. they do; they hear voices and sometimes perform weird things. Dr Basangwa says over the years, the incidence of these mental Encroachment on land illnesses has been increasing. The prevalence is about 12% of the population, hence as the population increases, so does the likelihood Dr Basangwa says the encroachment on hospital land is being of increase in the number of patients which is a similar trend for all resolved through a court process. Four years ago, the area they have the other diseases. occupied was vacant. Unknown people recently settled illegally on the land. They started by settling on a wetland which is not under Noting that research indicates that mental disorders are on the Butabika Hospital’s jurisdiction and then on the hospital land. A increase the world over, Dr Basangwa says the projection is that process to evict them then was halted by the authorities. by 2020, depression will be the second most commonly diagnosed disorder. With development, certain disorders emerge, because the 2020 Dateline demands of the times increase, so do the expectations yet the social support avenues reduce as each person is left to their own means. Butabika Hospital too is looking forward to the country’s transformation into a lower level middle income state. One way of Aware that mental disorders will continue to increase, the Ministry supporting this development is to ensure that people are healthy and of Health together with Hospital Management have designed productive. The people who come to the hospital can be productive programmes for enhanced awareness. “Many of the people who and could work to contribute to this country’s progress. would have gone to spiritual and faith based healers will be coming to the hospital. We are preparing for this by increasing the handling Butabika Hospital will not only treat patients but join the health capacity of sister institutions through the decentralisation of mental promotion crusade by carrying out education through the health delivery,” Dr Basangwa elaborates. communities. Mental Health practitioners visit schools to talk about drug abuse which is affecting young people, putting them out of The existing General hospitals should have the capacity to handle school, out of work and out of production. people with mental health problems, rather than transporting them to Butabika from all the ends of the country. Mental health “Mental illness is not handled differently from general health; when units have been developed at every one of the 13 Regional referral we talk about family planning, immunisation, we also promote KRVSLWDOV DOWKRXJKWKHVWDIÀQJOHYHOVDQGPHGLFLQHVIRUWKHXQLWV mental health,” Dr Basangwa stresses, adding that the public also are inadequate. QHHGVWREHDZDUHWKDW+,9$,'6SDWLHQWVVXIIHUPHQWDOSUREOHPV at some point. The units are regularly assessed for their functionality. Government policy is that mental health care is offered as part of the minimum The public is encouraged to take the mentally ill to the nearest health care package at the lowest health care facility. Health workers hospital for medical care as mental illnesses are treatable. The have therefore been trained and are deployed for interventions at earlier one seeks medical care the better, as the practice of visiting the lowest levels and only refer when they have failed. traditional healers and then hospital as a last resort complicates the outcomes. 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The rest of the high tech equipment will be installed after completion of the renovation works at Mulago Hospital. 'SRWXVYGXMSRSJ/E[IQTIERH/MVYHHY,SWTMXEPW /E[IQTIERH/MVYHHYLIEPXLGIRXVIWLEZIFIIRYTKVEHIHXSKIRIVEPVIJIVVEPLSWTMXEPWXEXYWSJEFSYXFIHWIEGL8LIX[SLSWTMXEPW [MPPEPWSFIIUYMTTIH[MXLQSHIVRQIHMGEPIUYMTQIRXERHWXEJJIH[MXLWTIGMEPMWXWGYVVIRXP]YRHIVKSMRKXVEMRMRK[MXLWYTTSVXJVSQXLI TVSNIGX %X[SFIHVSSQIHETEVXQIRXFPSGOLEWEPWSFIIRGSRWXVYGXIHEXIEGLSJXLILSWTMXEPWXSEGGSQQSHEXIWXEJJMRIQIVKIRG]HITEVXQIRXW KAWEMPE HOSPITAL - Front elevation of main block Uganda @ 54 | 45 Kawempe -Staff accommodation block Kirrudu Hospital - Front elevation of main block Kirrudu -services block rear elevation 46 | Uganda @ 54 Medical, Dental Council; maintaining the best practices Over the last four years under the East African &RPPXQLW\PHGLFDOWUDLQLQJKDVEHHQLGHQWLÀHG as one of the major pillars under the protocol of the free movement of goods and services. Medical councils in the region made a sub- protocol of “reciprocal recognition” under which doctors should be accepted regardless of their country of origin, within the Community, without undergoing fresh exams. Measures have been instituted, ensuring that people who are not up to the standards are not registered. Dr Katumba elaborates that through joint inspections, a training institution for doctors and dentists cannot be started in any of the East African Community states without approval, “It must satisfy the basic requirement for such an institution; appropriate governance, curricula, lecturers, students’ enrolment, logistics in place, research and innovation...et al.” Thus energized by the protocol, the Council is independent and has closed the institutions that did not have the basics that are requisite Dr. Katumba Ssentongo of their status; a dental school in Eldoret, a - Registrar UMDPC university in Burundi, Dodoma Zanzibar, Dar-es- ganda Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Salaam and Kampala International University and Council supervises and monitors the until they restructured to meet the prescribed training of doctors. It meets this function requirements. together with the National Council for UHigher Education that registers the medical When not approved of, their trainees would be schools by reviewing the curriculum the medical subjected to fresh examinations if they were to and dental training curricula. function from another country; this Council has been recognized as one of those with the best Dr Katumba Sentongo Gubala is the registrar practices in the world. and Chief Executive. The Council, a government agency, is responsible for supervising the training Anyone coming from outside the East African and practice of doctors and dental surgeons in Community to practice medicine or dentistry, Uganda. “Undergoes our examinations to establish that they are of good quality and conform to the It operates under the Ministry of Health, deriving professional standards, “Dr Katumba further its legitimacy from the Medical and Dental notes. Practitioners Act, 1996 that also stipulates its functions. Avoiding the quacks Dr Katumba explains that this entails ensuring In carrying out its mandate, the Council gives that the teachers are they enough and up to provisional ‘intern’ licenses for one year and the task, and the infrastructure is adequate. when they pass, they are given full medical Uganda @ 54 | 47 practitioners’ registration if they are Ugandans. Foreigners get handling about 50 cases annually. An established committee an annual temporary renewable license as per the international determines the category of the culpability hence if the case is practice. professional; it is handled by a tribunal. However, Dr Katumba adds that the foreigners are examined for Leaving gause in a patient, a senior person delegating an WKHLUTXDOLÀFDWLRQDQGFRPSHWHQF\7KLVLQFOXGHVWKH8JDQGD assignment to a junior rather than handling it, forgetting to nationals who trained abroad and want internship in Uganda. review a patient who then develops complications, a doctor “Because we do not know about their curricular, we need ZKRKDVQRWNHSWDEUHDVWRIGHYHORSPHQWVLQPHGLFLQH to be sure of their professionalism; we to do a peer review dentistry and uses ineffective prescriptions are some of the examination before they are accepted. It is also an insurance short-falls that attract action against a medical practitioner. against the tainted ones who could have mismanaged patients elsewhere and are culpable,” Dr Katumba reassures Ugandans. If the issue is structural; power failure where there is no alternative power source hence affecting the life of a patient, The Council mandatorily carries out a background check from the doctor in question is exonerated but the management of their home country’s mother data base and the International the hospital is culpable. A nurse on duty without a doctor or an Police to establish they do not have a criminal record and also ambulance for referring is not culpable either. consults with the registrar in their country of origin. In these matters, the aggrieved public is advised on the The practice appropriate courses of action; reverting to the human rights commission or the courts of law for redress. It is the responsibility of the Council to monitor the people it has registered and ensure their impeccable performance. The council reviews the reported cases around the country, Hence Medical Practitioners and Dentists’ licensing is annual making careful considerations before a doctor is deregistered, and hinges upon evidence of progress in studies to keep abreast which deeply affects the communities in which they work. It is of the latest developments in medicine and dentistry. It also better they are educated to avoid the pitfalls than getting to licenses the doctors’ facilities and premises, ensuring they SRLQWRIKDYLQJWKHPÀUHG conform to standards. It continually educates them about their responsibilities, besides informing the public about the doctors Uganda Medical and Dental Practitioners’ Council has earned and dentists’ roles and responsibilities. international recognition for its best practices. People serving RQWKH&RXQFLOPXVWKDYHVHUYHGIRUDZKLOHLQWKHÀHOG Errant practitioners and have vast practice experience; it believes in sharing its experiences with other councils in the region. 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Tin 1962 than it is now when Ugandans are Lifestyle-induced heart conditions better educated, highly exposed Dr Omagino notes that in the modern lifestyle, WR WKH EHQHÀWV RI WKH PRGHUQ DIÁXHQW PDQ DIIRUGV EUHDNIDVW globalisation and WKHQGULYHVWRRIÀFHWRVLWLQFRPIRUWDQGHDW ÀIW\IRXU \HDUV LQWR more without much exercise; a sumptuous the country’s self lunch, evening tea, then alcohol and fatty determination. meats after work then dinner at home. This is DKXJHYROXPHRIFDORULÀFLQWDNHDJDLQVWWKH This Magazine sought ideal 3000 calories expenditure for the body’s out Dr Omagino O.O. functioning. The resultant accumulation of John, the Executive redundant calories is the problem. Director of Uganda Heart Institute at Dr Omagino points at the increased in-take of Mulago Hospital toxins, chemicals, drugs and salt, affecting the Complex, for an utilisation of the consumed glucose leaving it insight into this health redundant, unlike was the case in the past. reversal. People now eat salt in pork, sausages, popcorn and others sources, to accumulate more than Dr Omagino notes recommended volumes, hence life threatening. that whereas man was created a Lifestyles thus need to adopt normal ordinary hunter-gatherer, he low-fat organic food, potatoes, boiled meet, metamorphosed into ERLOHG DQG VSLFHG ÀVK DQG H[HUFLVH WR XWLOLVH a sedentary being the calories consumed and then a daily walk of whose calorie intake at least ten thousand steps. exceeds his physical requirements. The pre-independence British administrative ’’Mulago Heart Institute Whatever the original structure ensured that every homestead had is capable of open man would eat; food and the reserve granaries; there were heart surgery,’’ Dr John carbohydrates, fruits, fruits, vegetables and massive education. O. Omagino, Heart vegetables and natural Whatever type of educational institution had Insitute Director water, were burnt enough grounds allowing every child to exercise; up without much the communities the district headquarters too of a balance, to be provided play-grounds and even golf courses for transformed into fats competitions. and cholesterol, the reserves to be utilised “With the scenario now existing, school grounds in case of need. have been sold off and many primary schools are accommodated in high rise buildings. In the old lives, man would walk to the garden, They cannot play; hence physical exercise then to the market or to visit relatives and enforcement is absent. We need to claim all WKHQRQHKDGWRGLJJDWKHUÀUHZRRGDQGIHWFK these aspects of life and do them right,” Dr water, thereby at the end of the day utilising Omagino argues. all the calories eaten. Many people ordinarily lived to 100yrs, because they operated within It has also been established that 36 per cent the naturally assigned parameters. of primary school children are obese. Thus the Ministry of Education system needs to stress As of now, heart diseases are an unfolding the necessity of eating healthy and mandatory epidemic affecting one in four adults in Kampala exercising as part of maintaining the quality of Uganda @ 54 | 49 A view of Mulago Heart Institute open heart surgery theatre with surgeons at work life. These should be embedded in the children’s psyche through cent (16’000 babies) has heart defects, which would represent the school curriculum. nearly half the population of Kampala primary schools. Unavoidable heart conditions 6FLHQWLÀF GHYHORSPHQWV SRLQW RXW WKDW SHU FHQW RI WKRVH children need some form of intervention to lead meaningful However, there are unavoidable heart conditions, those of lives. Many lives have thus been improved and can live FKLOGUHQERUQZLWKGHIHFWV´,WLVVFLHQWLÀFWKDWHYHU\SURGXFW independently. has a rate of rejects, and even so is the manufacture of a human being. Hence one percent of children the world over have some An unavoidable factor is the acquired diseases in children; like form of defect at birth,” Dr Omagino explains. rheumatic diseases originating from overcrowding in shared accommodation. The infections children pass on to others are At independence when we were 5million, we were delivering treatable with penicillin. In the past, there could be no stock- about 0.5m babies. When we are 35m at a growth rate of out of penicillin, however with increased numbers and logistical 3.3per cent, we are generating 1.6m babies per year. One per hiccups, stocks-out are now common but where housing, safe 50 | Uganda @ 54 Getting to work; Dr Tom Mwambu, a leading Cardiologist uper specialised equipment sustain the 8-hr open heart surgery Consultant on Open Heart Surgery, behind is Dr Michael Oketcho, a Cardiologist too water provision and public health have improved, this condition yet whether abroad or local, the consumables remain the same. has been eliminated. 7KHUH LV KRZHYHU QHHG WR ÀQG ZD\V RI VKDULQJ WKH 86· tariff, which is too high for the majority of the people. The Heart Institute guides the population on the preventable aspects and improved diagnosis giving everybody a chance to ´0XODJR·V SHUIRUPDQFH LV SHJJHG RQ LQWHUQDWLRQDO VFLHQWLÀF be assessed, especially the babies. At birth, at immunisation, VWDQGDUGVRIHIÀFLHQF\WKDWRSHQKHDUWVXUJHU\FDOOVIRU WKHFRVWV or when children seek admission to school, sieves have been set cannot therefore be avoided where quality is the objective,” Dr up to catch those with abnormal heart conditions. Doctors and Omagino stresses. nurses in health institutions are also on the look-out for heart diseases, ready to start the process of intervention. The demand on the facilities that would handle at least 1000 procedures is high, yet it is operating at 40 per cent capacity Capacity only, after getting requirements from government, development partners, and the corporate world. With government in-put Dr Omagino further states, “Our job now is to get high-tech alone, only 20 per cent of the capacity would be utilised. equipment nearer to regional hospitals and eventually to general hospitals, which has almost been attained at Mulago. Considering that the institute needs US$5m for optimum running The training of people for posting to HCiV Health Centres on a annually, if government gave US$1m, 200 procedures would be three-year training programme, after completing their master’s carried out, which is 20 per cent of the capacity. With US$2m, degree is ongoing. Although the capacity is not yet adequate, utilisation would be 40 per cent. On the other hand, if 400 we are ensuring that the capacity being built can diagnose half patients were handled abroad, US$8m would be required. Thus of the existing children cases. Mulago can screen 5000 babies by injecting US$2m into Mulago Heart Institute, the nation would annually.” save US$6m. He explains that the cases turning up for appeals at TV stations Further, handling these procedures at Mulago Heart Institute are a result of successful assessment and accurate diagnosis supports the teaching, training and research functions and followed by a work plan that may include surgery. Most children’s HQKDQFHV WKH HIÀFLHQF\ RI WKH VXUJLFDO WHDP 1XPHURXV SRVW cases are now handled at Mulago at a cost of US$5’000 compared graduate students’ dissertations are on-going, while the to the US$25’000 upfront for all open heart surgery cases abroad, undergraduate programme supports students to participate Uganda @ 54 | 51 Dr Erias Ssebatta, a Cardiologist concludes a pacemaker implant procedure in the diagnoses and investigations; they physically see the interventions and their outcomes. 12 papers have been published in the world top journals. A new home The Institute has caused the designing of a future Heart Institute which will increase the Institute’s capacity from 1000 to 5000 procedures annually and serve the nation to an opportune level for the next 50 years. The Islamic Development Bank consented to funding the project for US$65m, a turn-key construction (and equipping) on Mulago Hill along Owen Road in the vicinity of the Women’s Hospital. A team of experts in systems requisite of a heart Institute comprising a consultant, an architect, ministry of health and government chief engineers have visited some of India’s best DQG PHGLXP UDQJH KHDUW FHQWUHV IRU IDFWÀQGLQJ DQG FDVH studies ahead of drawing Uganda Heart Institute architectural and functionality designs. Human resource The Institute has a training programme to create the capacity to develop the nation. It entails the training of masters’ degree holders for two years to become specialists; they then take WKUHHWRÀYH\HDUVWREHFRPHFDUGLRORJLVWV “The right calibre of knowledge, exposure and skills is necessary. They are only sent abroad for one year for high-ended training. We are pushing for 1000 and more, a big stock of people for our own fully-blown programme and then there will be no need to send surgery cases abroad,” Dr Omagino argues. Uganda Heart Institute Act A new US$2000 pacemaker (right) for implant replacement of the An Act of Parliament has been passed to address the issues \UROG OHIW WKDWKDVEHHQH[WUDFWHG of super-specialisation, human resource, infrastructure and 52 | Uganda @ 54 goods and supplies, all of which were not provided for in the The Institute shall have such employees, appointed by the constitution. %RDUG DV LW GHHPV QHFHVVDU\ IRU LWV SURSHU DQG HIÀFLHQW IXQFWLRQLQJ ,WV HPSOR\HHV VKDOO KROG RIÀFH RQ VXFK WHUPV Uganda Heart Institute Act 2016 that was assented on July and conditions as its Board may determine and specify in the 15, 2016, and becomes operational in October 2016 confers instruments of appointment. full autonomy upon the Institute empowering it to address its specialists’ terms of engagement. It operates under the The Institute’s functions include reduction of referrals abroad, Minister for Health who may give some direction in writing in and increase local capacity to handle super specialised cardio respect to the policy issues. vascular cases. It will establish small centres in the rest of the country, and manage and monitor regional heart centres for The direction needs to be consistent with the purpose and the provision of cardiac diseases and medical care of heart provisions of the Act with respect to the functioning of the patients. institute. The Minister is required to cause a copy of the directions to be published in the gazette, hence avoiding any The Act thus addresses the challenges of delivering such a form of cheating. service in a super-specialised environment; the inadequate human resource, the terms of its attraction and retention and Per the Act, the Institute will train; teach residents, fellows, the procurement of super specialised equipment. nurses, technicians and other health workers within and outside the institute. The institute is empowered to procure Earlier plans comforting to the specialised technologies of 1968 its super specialised cardiac medicines, reagents, sundries and were brought to naught with the 1971 coup d’état catastrophe. equipment. Precision calibration high-tech supported surgery UgandaUganda @ 54 @ |54 53 | 53 UGANDA HEART INSTITUTE 7+(5(38%/,&2)8*$1'$ Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng Dr. Omagino O.O. John, 0LQLVWHURI+HDOWK 'LUHFWRU8+, Uganda Heart Institute congratulates H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, the President of Republic of Uganda, the Cabinet, Members of Parliament and Gallant Ugandans upon the National celebrations of the 54th H.E. Yoweri Kaguta Museveni Independence Anniversary. The President of the Republic of Uganda We are committed to provide the best health service in cardiology and other disciplines under our mandate. JDQGD+HDUW,QVWLWXWHLVWKHRQO\QDWLRQDOUHIHUUDO Safety and Environment Professionals. 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The enterprise would also environment that will make be able to export. The Government will be able to doing business easier, simpler, collect taxes and the public will get jobs convenient, faster, less costly, timely and attractive, says On why the project is undertaking business the Project Coordinator. registration and licensing reforms, under the Uganda Registration Service Bureau, Kyewalabye The private sector is a says: “Somebody who is willing to come and recognised engine of growth invest in Uganda would think twice if registering a and development of any business was cumbersome and getting licenses was nation.However, for it to problematic. We should be able to attract more effectively play this role, the quality investments if the cost of doing business Government must take the is lower. Therefore, for Uganda to be competitive lead by creating a conducive in the region and the world, we must create an environment for the private attractive business environment that not only sector to drive growth. Just meets the international standard, but surpasses it. like a car engine that is not “Uganda is gifted by nature, largely because of its well serviced cannot provide geographical location that gives it a good weather, VXIÀFLHQW SRZHU WR PRYH fertile soils, minerals and the people. However, we the car, a private sector will DUHXQDEOHWRPD[LPDOO\EHQHÀWIURPWKHVHEHFDXVH never deliver growth in an of business environment rigidities that need to unconducive environment. be addressed to unlock Uganda’s potential.” Two years into the project, the reforms are already The Government of Uganda, paying off. “Registering a business in the country therefore, through CEDP, previously took about three months, but because of seeks to create a conducive the reforms we have undertaken, you can now do business environment by it in just a day! A name search can be undertaken John Marie Kyewalabye, supporting major reforms. instantly. WKH3URMHFW&RRUGLQDWRU CEDP. John Marie Kyewalabye, the Project Coordinator, Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) is explains: “This project coordination unit is now going beyond registration and offering post providing technical support to the agencies that are registration support to enterprises to ensure that implementing the project. The project is geared they operate sustainably. towards enhancing the competitiveness of Uganda as a country, through supporting major reforms in Through the increased collaboration among land administration and management; business Government agencies and departments, provision registration and licensing; tourism competitiveness of services has been made easier, simpler and development and enterprise reform,” he explains. faster. For instance, as you register your business at URSB headquarters, you automatically get a “At the end of the day, we should be able to create 7D[,GHQWLÀFDWLRQ1XPEHU 7,1 IURP85$DQG\RX a conducive business environment that is free from also instantly get a trading license from KCCA and hindrances for starting and also the day-to-day registration by NSSF under a one stop centre model. running of businesses.” This will eventually be rolled out to other parts of Uganda. The reforms will ensure improved service delivery to Ugandans as a priority, which means ensuring URSB and Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban convenience and ease by improving access, reducing Development (MLHUD) have also been supported in cost by making processes simpler and eliminating RSHQLQJ DQG HVWDEOLVKLQJ UHJLRQDO RIÀFHV WKDW DUH non-value adding procedures, timeliness and quality. linked to their headquarters. The investment under CEDP will ultimately pay off This has in effect brought services closer to the IRUWKHEHQHÀWRIERWKWKHSXEOLFDQGSULYDWHVHFWRU people, made it convenient and less costly as 62 | Uganda @ 54 envisaged in the Second National Development Plan (NDPII) and OHVVWKDQDZHHNLQYDULRXVGHVWLQDWLRQVZKLFKLVQRWVXIÀFLHQW Vision 2040. In future and with the pace of automation Ugandans will enjoy the services in the comfort their homes. Massive Our tourism products are not well developed and the Private Sector changes are planned to reform the licensing regime to get rid of players are not at their full capacity,” Kyewalabye observes, unnecessary licenses that bog down the private sector. as he gives the rationale behind the intervention. The project LVVXSSRUWLQJHQJDJHPHQWRIPDUNHWUHSUHVHQWDWLRQÀUPVLQWKH “You cannot have someone, requiring eight licenses to start USA, UK and Germany to among other things promote Uganda as a business some of which are duplications! For example, why WRXULVPGHVWLQDWLRQ7KLVLVDFKDQJHIURPRXU´KDQGV should a Commercial Bank already licensed by Bank of Uganda off” approach that we have used in the past and has not delivered and desirous of opening and setting up operations in any part of UHVXOWV2XUSHHUVLQWKHUHJLRQDUHDOOKDYLQJRYHUÀYHÀUPVDQG the country seek another license say from a local authority to returns are enormous. RSHUDWH":KHUHDVWKHSD\PHQWRIOLFHQVHIHHVLVÀQHEXWOHWWKH process be concluded once and at one point! The private sector The project is also supporting tourism product development should spend more time doing business rather than chasing and “There are so many tourism spots around the country which VWUXJJOLQJWRIXOÀOUHTXLUHPHQWVIRURSHUDWLRQDOLVLQJDEXVLQHVV are poorly packaged and may not be sold. We must improve our ¶· +DUPRQL]DWLRQDQG VLPSOLÀFDWLRQ RI OLFHQVLQJ SURFHVV DQG products to be able to attract and increase the number of tourist procedures must happen like yesterday” explains Kyewalabye. and stays in the country. Under the Second Private Sector Competiveness Project (PSCPII), 7KH EHQHÀWV IURP WKH WRXULVP VHFWRU KDYH DQ H[SDQVLYH the MLHUD designed, installed and operationalised a Lands trickledown effect due to the forward and backward linkages. Information System (LIS), which basically has enabled automation When we get more tourists, the agriculture and hospitality sectors of land administration and management processes in six pilot will be boosted.” Likewise income, employment and wealth project sites. creation will be attained. Firstly, the security of the records has been enhanced and now the Uganda tourism is a low hanging fruit that has the potential country has a secure database of records away from the manual to transform Uganda’s economy in the medium term and with ones previously held. minimal investments. Secondly, service delivery in terms of undertaking a search and The matching grant is the last component, aimed at spiralling SURFHVVLQJDODQGWLWOHKDYHVLJQLÀFDQWO\EHHQUHGXFHGIURPRYHU the competitiveness of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) to 450 days 10 years ago to about 25 days currently in the pilot take advantage of the increasing market access within region and sites. The issues of forgeries of titles and delays in transferring EH\RQG´2YHUÀUPVKDYHDOUHDG\EHQHÀWHGIURPWKLVJUDQW titles will be addressed by reduction in procedures but also trail We have also committed over $2m under this component,” he DVUHVXOWRIDXWRPDWLRQWKDWZLOOVXSSRUWTXLFNLGHQWLÀFDWLRQDQG says. We envisage to see more productive enterprises running and isolation of culprits. operating sustainably with the ability to tap into and compete in the regional market. +DYLQJDQHIÀFLHQWODQGPDQDJHPHQWV\VWHPZLOOKHOSWKHSULYDWH sector in investing in production,” he explains. Our enterprises must not be spectators in the market but players. Recall that there is no godfather in the market place. If we do not The Ministry of Tourism Wildlife and Antiquities (MoTWA) and have the quantity, quality and timely offerings our enterprises related agencies: Uganda Tourism Board (UTB), Uganda Wildlife will be driven to limbo going with the jobs and revenues. Authority (UWA) and the Hotel and Tourism Training Institute Jinja (HTTI) are implementing another component of the project; Kyewalabye notes that due to the delayed start of the project, tourism competitiveness. the expectations on them to deliver are high, given the anxieties DPRQJEHQHÀFLDULHV+RZHYHUWKHFRRUGLQDWRULVFRQÀGHQWWKDW “Our marketing of Uganda has not been very good in the past. despite the delay, the project is now on the right track and will Staff from UTB were only able to participate in Expos that last deliver to expectations. President Yoweri Museveni hands marketing contracts to Hanna Kleber (second left), the CEOmanaging director of KPRN at State House Entebbe. On the right is Fountain Publishers Lt. Uganda @ 54 | 63 Uganda is recognised for its electricity supply JDQGD KDV EHHQ UDQNHG WKLUG DPRQJ WKH ´ELJ ÀYHµ FRVWUHÁHFWLYHWDULIIDQGSURPRWLQJDQGLPSOHPHQWLQJUHJLRQDO countries for addressing its electricity shortage. Since regulatory models. its establishment in 2000, Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) has provided impeccable leadership in “We appreciate our valued stakeholders for their support in Uthe Electricity Supply Industry in Uganda, which has created (5$·V MRXUQH\ WRZDUGV WKH IRUHJRLQJ DZDUGVUHFRJQLWLRQV 7KH a favourable environment for innovative practices in energy Authority reiterates its continued commitment to improving the towards sustainable development. HIÀFLHQF\RIWKH(OHFWULFLW\6XSSO\,QGXVWU\µWKH$XWKRULW\VDLG in a statement in light of the numerous awards. A particularly remarkable initiative in this direction is the Global Energy Transfer for Feed-in-Tariff (GET FiT) program that seeks In September 2015, the Authority was recognized by the United to accelerate the use of renewable energy in Uganda. To-date, Nations Department for Economic and Social Affairs (UN- the GET FiT program has approved 18 projects in various parts of DESA), for its contribution to advancing access to affordable, Uganda, with a combined capacity of 152 MW. reliable, sustainable and modern energy for all. The Authority was recognized during the “Powering the Future We Want – In an index released by Fieldstone Africa Renewables in June Recognizing Innovative Practices in Energy for Sustainable 2016, Uganda was ranked 3rd among the “Big Five” countries Development” award ceremony that took place at the United on the African continent, only behind South Africa and Morocco. Nations Headquarters in New York. Uganda was recognized for the success of the GET FiT program that has produced several hydro projects and two solar projects currently under construction. In what Fieldstone Africa referred to as “work put into resolving teething issues” in renewables, Uganda stood out for the work done in standardizing all licensing instruments and procedures, which has made investment in the sector less complicated and less time-consuming. ERA is a Statutory Body established in the year 2000 in accordance with the Electricity Act, 1999 (Chapter 145 of the Laws of Uganda) to regulate the generation, transmission, distribution, sale, export and import of electrical energy in Uganda. In November 2015, Uganda was rated 3rd in Africa, and 9th among 55 emerging economies in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) on account of boosting the investment climate and promoting Reduction in Energy losses policies for clean energy investments. In the global survey done by BNEF, Uganda got an overall score of 1.68, moving from the global 10th position assumed in 2014 and maintaining its 3rd position on the African continent. (DUO\ LQ (5$ UHDFKHG WKH ÀQDO shortlist of the Regulator of the Year Award for Excellence together with four other regulators on the continent, at the Power in Africa Awards that were organized by EnergyNet, UK. ERA was nominated in the Regulator of the Year category in recognition of its exceptional role in creating an environment that meets the needs of investors in the Electricity Supply Industry in Uganda. ERA was especially recognized for developing guidelines for investors, sustaining regulatory independence, maintaining a Powering the future we want 64 | Uganda @ 54 Agriculture in the national economy Enhancing crop production and productivity, in a sustainable and environmentally safe manner, for improved food and nutrition security, employment, widened export base and improved incomes of the farmers are the key functions of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF). The other key function of the ministry as per the policy, the ministry is to formulate, review and implement national policies, plans, strategies, regulations and standards and enforce laws, regulations and standards along the value chain of crops, OLYHVWRFNDQGÀVKHULHV The ministry to controls and manage epidemics and disasters, and supports the control of sporadic and endemic diseases, pests and vectors as well as regulate the use of agricultural chemicals, veterinary drugs, biological, planting and stocking materials as well as other inputs. It however remains a hypothetical as to whether the ministry has delivered on its mandate. What cannot be disputed is that agriculture remains the cornerstone of Uganda’s economy. of research technologies; National Agricultural Advisory Services The ministry has eight Agencies that are responsible for the (NAADS) for delivery of advisory services; National Animal delegation of functions namely the * National Agricultural Genetic Resource Centre and Data Bank (NAGRC&DB) for animal Research Organisation (NARO)-for generation and dissemination JHQHWLF GHYHORSPHQW &RRUGLQDWLQJ 2IÀFH IRU WKH &RQWURO Uganda @ 54 | 65 of Trypanasomiasis in Uganda (COCTU) ; Diary Development Uganda’s economy remains predominantly agricultural with a Authority (DDA) for promotion of Diary development; Uganda small industrial sector that is dependent on imported inputs Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) for promotion of coffee like oil and equipment. Overall productivity is hampered by a development; Cotton Development Organisation (CDO) for number of supply-side constraints, including underinvestment promotion of cotton development and Plan for Modernisation of in an agricultural sector that continues to rely on rudimentary Agriculture Secretariat for implementing the Prosperity for All technology. Industrial growth is impeded by high-costs of (PFA) Strategy. production due to poor infrastructure, low levels of private investment, and the depreciation of the Ugandan shilling. Therefore, Uganda being an agricultural country, is heavily reliant on farming, her economy is inseparable from agriculture Since 1986, the government - with the support of foreign KHQFHLWLVGLIÀFXOWIRUDOD\PDQWRKDQGOHHLWKHURQHRIWKHP countries and international agencies - has acted to rehabilitate without touching on the other. and stabilize the economy by undertaking currency reform, raising producer prices on export crops, increasing prices of Uganda has substantial natural resources, including fertile petroleum products, and improving civil service wages. The soils, regular rainfall, small deposits of copper, gold, and other SROLF\ FKDQJHV DUH HVSHFLDOO\ DLPHG DW GDPSHQLQJ LQÁDWLRQ minerals, and recently discovered oil. Agriculture is the most while encouraging foreign investment to boost production and important sector of the economy, employing one third of the export earnings. Since 1990 economic reforms ushered in an work force. Coffee accounts for the bulk of export revenues. era of solid economic growth based on continued investment in 66 | Uganda @ 54 $V D UHVXOW LQÁDWLRQ UHPDLQHG EHORZ GRXEOH GLJLWV KRZHYHU trade and capital-intensive industries were negatively impacted. 7KH EXGJHW IRU )< LV GRPLQDWHG E\ HQHUJ\ DQG URDG infrastructure spending, while relying on donor support for long- term economic drivers of growth, including agriculture, health, and education. But President Yoweri Museveni believes, Uganda will wean off the donor support as revenue from oil, coupled with value addition in agricultural products and pay back from the ongoing massive investment in infrastructure development. In his budget speech, which Manifesto publications accurately recorded, President Museveni said when NRM came to power, they were able to identify the ten strategic bottlenecks including the lack of infrastructure and the low level of the development of the human resource (education and health for our people). On account of handling the relevant issues correctly, the economy was able to recover and the NRM was able to reasonably expand the tax-base. As a consequence of that, Uganda has been able to handle the infrastructure (the roads, electricity, the ICT backbone, some aspects of piped water, education and health facilities) and peace (by handling defence and law and order) using some of the locally generated revenue. By 2020, Uganda will start pumping out its oil. Even at the low price of US$50 per barrel, if Uganda will EHSXPSLQJEDUUHOVSHUGD\IRUWKHUHÀQHU\DQG barrels per day for the pipeline and the total will be 200,000 barrels per day, that will give Uganda an additional income of US$3 billions per year. The Government portion of that money will be US$2.1billions which is 70%. With that additional money, Uganda will be able to easily deal with the issue of funding innovation by the upcoming scientists, capitalizing the Uganda Development Bank (UDB) so as to support the manufacturing activities as well as some aspects of agriculture, capitalize the National Housing Finance Bank so as to enable them to fund low cost housing for the people and fund some elements of the infrastructure, that is according to President Museveni’s work plan. “We shall work for exports all over the globe and not just H[SRUWLQJ XQSURFHVVHG FRIIHH DQG FRWWRQ EXW H[SRUWLQJ ÀQDO SURGXFWVHJWH[WLOHVSURFHVVHGÀVKSURFHVVHGPLONDQGPLON products, vegetables oil, etc,” Museveni said. He said, some Ugandan companies are already doing this. Fine Spinners using Ugandan cotton have already exported 2.5 million pieces of infrastructure, improved incentives for production and exports, T-shirts to Europe and East Africa and, they are planning to ORZHU LQÁDWLRQ EHWWHU GRPHVWLF VHFXULW\ DQG WKH UHWXUQ RI double their exports to 5 million pieces of T-shirts by next year. exiled Indian-Ugandan entrepreneurs. Nytil is exporting in the region. Milk factories are exporting milk The global economic downturn in 2008 hurt Uganda’s exports; and milk products to Kenya, South Sudan, Congo, Tanzania, however, Uganda’s GDP growth has largely recovered due to past Sudan, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Nigeria, Syria, USA and reforms and a rapidly growing urban consumer population. Oil RWKHU&20(6$FRXQWULHV8JDQGD·VSURFHVVHGÀVKKDVIRUORQJ revenues and taxes are expected to become a larger source of been exported to the European Union – 80%, Japan – 4%, UAE – government funding as production starts in the next few years. 5%, USA – 4% and others (Israel, Asia and Middle East) – 7%. Uganda faces many challenges. Instability in South Sudan has He said this year’s budget also aims at modernizing agriculture led to a sharp increase in Sudanese refugees and is disrupting by continuing to vigorously convert the dormant 68% of Ugandan Uganda’s main export market. High energy costs, inadequate homesteads from subsistence farming to commercial farming. WUDQVSRUWDWLRQDQGHQHUJ\LQIUDVWUXFWXUHLQVXIÀFLHQWEXGJHWDU\ This is where Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) comes in. discipline, and corruption inhibit economic development and But for an agricultural country like Uganda to attain a middle LQYHVWRUFRQÀGHQFH'XULQJWKH8JDQGDVKLOOLQJGHSUHFLDWHG income status by 2020 apart from the infrastructure and affordable DJDLQVWWKHGROODUDQGLQÁDWLRQURVHIURPWR ZKLFK ÀQDQFHLWKDVFRUUXSWLRQGHOD\VUHGWDSHGXSOLFDWLRQRIUROHV led to the Bank of Uganda hiking interest rates from 11% to 17%. which he has vowed to stump out in this term. Uganda @ 54 | 67 68 | Uganda @ 54 NATIONAL ANIMAL GENETIC RESOURCES CENTRE AND DATA BANK (NAGRC&DB) Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries 7+(5(38%/,&2)8*$1'$ Liquid nitrogen plant of capacity =89litrs per hour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he management and staff of National Animal Genetic Resources Centre and Data Bank (NAGRC&DB) wish to congratulate H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni the President of Republic of Uganda, the Cabinet, Members of Parliament and gallant Ugandans on this occasion as we celebrate the 54th Independence Anniversary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¯(EMV] 4YVI *VMIWMER ERH %]VWLMVI ERH 7ELM[EP ERH FYGOWERHFSEVW 'VSWWFVIIHMRK 'SQFSVSYKL4MKW %ZEMPMRKPMUYMHRMXVSKIRXSWYWXEMREVXM½GMEP 96YLIRK]IVI VERGL MR /MVYLYVE HMWXVMGX MRWIQMREXMSR 'EXXPIFVIIHYTKVEHMRKTVSKVEQW (EMV] 9/EWSP[I MR /EQYPM9TKVEHMRK ERH *VMIWMER.IVWI]+YIVRWI]%]VWLMVI ERH GSRWIVZEXMSR SJ 7LSVX ,SVR >IFY ERH 8VEMRMRK ERH IUYMTTMRK XIGLRMGMERW XS /EWSP[I &VS[R KSEXW SJJIV%VXM½GMEP MRWIQMREXMSR ERH )QFV]S &IIJ &VELQER 6SQEKRSPE 7MQQIRXEP 8VERWJIV &SRWQEVE &SVER +SEX 4YVIFVIIHMRK 9&YPEKS JEVQ &YPEQFYPM(EMV] 4YVI ERH GVSWWFVIIHMRK WGLIQIW &SIVERH *VMIWMER PSGEP KSEXW EW [IPP EW GSRWIVZEXMSR SJ MRHMKIRSYWKSEXFVIIHW 1YFIRHI&PEGO 91EVY^M VERGL MR %TEG &IIJ 'EXXPI Services ERH/MXERKEERHSXLIV7QEPP)EWX%JVMGER 9TKVEHMRK%ROSPI7LSVX,SVR>IFY[MXL 8VEMRMRK *EVQIVW MR EWWMWXIH VITVSHYGXMZI KSEXW 6SQEKRSPEERH&SVERGVSWWIW XIGLRSPSKMIW ERH PMZIWXSGO QEREKIQIRX 90MZIWXSGO I\TIVMQIRXEP WXEXMSR MR 97ERKEMR/MVYLYVE&IIJ GVSWWFVIIHMRK TVEGXMGIW )RXIFFI(EMV] 4YVI*VMIWMER+YIVRWI] %ROSPI[MXL&VELQERERH'LEVSPEMW 'SRWIVZIERHHIZIPSTMRHMKIRSYWFVIIHWJSV Uganda @ 54 | 69 Sahiwal pure breeding program-Njeru Guernsey pure & cross breeding .IVWI] ERH &VS[R 7[MWW /YVSMPIV 6IWSYVGIW'IRXVIERH(EXE&EROJSVXLI (IQSRWXVEXMSR SJ HMWIEWI GSRXVSP JEVQ GLMGOIRWERH'SQFVSYKL4MKW )EWXIVR%JVMGE6IKMSR MRJVEWXVYGXYVIERHIUYMTQIRX 4VSQSXMSRSJERHYWISJ%WWMWXIH6ITVSHYGXMZI 98LI -RWXMXYXI YRHIV XLI JYRHMRK SJ Partnerships ;SVPH &ERO XLVSYKL XLI )EWXIVR 8IGLRSPSKMIW %VXM½GMEP -RWIQMREXMSR 4VMZEXIWIGXSVMRWXMXYXMSRWMRHIPMZIV]SJ 7]RGLVSRM^EXMSR7I\IH7IQIR)QFV]SXVERWJIV %JVMGE %KVMGYPXYVEP 4VSHYGXMZMX] TVSNIGX TYVGLEWIH E QSHIVR 0MUYMH RMXVSKIR FVIIHMRKWIVZMGIW 9%- GIRXVI)RXIFFI &YPP WXYH ERH 7IQIR TPERXXSWYTTSVXXLIEVXM½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| Uganda @ 54 FOOD Technology Business Incubation Centre made us what ^LHYL)LULÄJPHYPLZ s. Patricia Buhanga had spent Foundation and DFID through the years agonizing over high Association of African Universities. rental costs in down town Since 2010, the Government of Uganda Kampala where she traded has provided support to the Centre Min shoes, until two years ago, an through President Yoweri Museveni’s opportunity beckoned her way. efforts under the Presidential Initiative. Through a friend she was introduced to Ms. Buhanga, the Operations Manager Food Technology Business Incubation of Kisufu Bakery, like Ms Regina Centre (FTBIC) of Makerere University, Nakayenga, the proprietor of Rena Kampala, a centre that is engaged Beverage Solutions Limited, the makers in developing new value-addition of Hibiscus beverages namely, RENA food businesses based on research Hibi Drink, RENA Hibi Tea, RENA Hibi and to support the University in Concentrate and RENA Hibi Wine is full training students in practical and of praises for what she is because of entrepreneurial skills. the centre. FTBIC was established in 2008, with “With technical training and assistance, support from the Rockefeller I plan to buy my own machine and start my own bakery,” Buhanga who is three months old at the centre observed with a smile as workers from other businesses under incubation at the centre were engaged in several activities at the centre’s state of the art bakery, thanks to generous support from President Museveni. Not only does the centre offer a platform for private entrepreneurs like Buhanga and Nakayenga and to the university students and recent graduates to venture into entrepreneurship. The incubatees are offered access to processing facilities and provided with technical support to boost their capacity in Ms. Buhanga, the Operations Manager of Kisufu Bakery, displays her KISUFU BREAD. UgandaUganda @ 54 @ |54 71 | 71 production, marketing and business management. Nakayenga started business with Uganda shillings The entrepreneurs and other food industry clients 50,000, which was used to buy sugar, charcoal, and are exposed to training in product development, food FRQWDLQHUVDQGWKHSURGXFWLRQZDVDWÀUVWÀYHOLWHUVSHU processing, and access to contract processing, food week. “Our current production capacity is 500 liters of analysis and technical advice; especially on aspects of KLELVFXV MXLFH SHU EDWFKGD\ NJ RI KLELVFXV WHD quality management, processing and packaging. (powder) per month” she adds. Rena currently employs 12 employees on full time Nakayenga came to know the centre from a newspaper at the factory and in marketing. “We also work with advert in 2013 when they advertised a training in Fruit over 100 outgrows of hibiscus, four buying agents, four Value Addition. distributor companies and over 400 outlets that sell our products,” she observes. “I have interacted with the centre since then as a trainee and then incubatee,” Nakayenga said. “We Hibiscus beverages like Juice, Concentrate, Tea and (RENA) are incubated by the centre – currently as virtual incubatees. We produce bulk consignment from the centre, enjoy continuous technical support from Professor William Kyamuhangire, test our products UHJXODUO\WRFRQIRUPWR81%6VSHFLÀFDWLRQVZHH[KLELW our products during national exhibitions under the )7%,& WHQW ZKLFK KDV EXLOW SXEOLF FRQÀGHQFH LQ RXU products and grown our market” she adds. Nakayenga was a lecturer at Kyambogo University, freelance consultant and small scale passion fruit farmer before FTBIC came to her aid. “After attending a training in fruit juice and wine making by Kulika (Charitable Trust) at Kireka Sub-Parish Church, I saw a new opportunity in furthering agro- processing. Hence, I processed my passion fruits into juice and wine but I changed to Hibiscus after learning DERXWWKHKHDOWKEHQHÀWVRIKLELVFXVµVKHDGGHG Rena Products. Pistis Organic Bushera ready to drink 72 | Uganda @ 54 Mr. Allan Nkinzehiki, a technical person at the FTBIC assisting Cynthia Mutonyi a Master’s student in Agriculture Engineering. :LQH ZKHQ &RQVXPHG SURYLGH GRXEOH EHQHÀWV Uganda @ 54 | 73 Makerere’s incubation contributing to Uganda’s industrialization, job and wealth creation Prof. William Kyamuhangire is the “So how have you been?. You keep communicating to Associate Professor of us to know how we help you. You don’t keep quiet,” we Food Technology and overheard him advising the recipient on the other end of Bio-Engineering at the call as he signaled us to a seat. Before we could settle Makerere University. down to talk, a farmer from Kayunga sat opposite him One cannot talk patiently waiting for his technical advise on his proposal about innovations at to make tomato sauce. Makerere University especially the Food The farmer had wanted to start production of tomato Technology Business sauce right away but Prof. Kyamuhangire advised him Incubation Centre WKDW KH KDV WR ÀUVW XQGHUJR WUDLQLQJ DW WKH FHQWUH WR (FTBIC) without understand the dynamics involved. To this farmer, he mentioning his name. has to be joined during training by atleast one or two members of his family to ensure when one dies or $VZHHQWHUHGKLVRIÀFHDW0DNHUHUHRQH:HGQHVGD\VXQQ\ becomes indisposed, the business does not collapse. This morning, we found Prof. Kyamuhangire on telephone .D\XQJDIDUPHUZDQWHGDTXLFNÀ[LQGLVSRVLQJRIIWKH IROORZLQJXSRQHRIWKHEHQHÀFLDULHVRIWKHWUDLQLQJDW ripe tomatoes which immediately, Prof. Kyamuhangire the FTBIC that had taken long to give feedback to the found a solution by getting him a ready market during the centre. days he will be training and before he gets established on Workers of Crane bakery enterprise processing bread. 74 | Uganda @ 54 the market. Meanwhile, a queue was forming outside his products and upgrading certain products,” he said. RIÀFHFRPSULVLQJIDUPHUVHQWUHSUHQHXUVDQGLQFXEDWHHV who utilize its specialised services. By the time we left, It is through research and development that the centre KLV RIÀFH DW .\DPXKDQJLUH ZDV \HW WR OHDYH WKH recently produced smoked beef that has become a desk for a break. Tiring job but happy to be there to serve, VHQVDWLRQ RQ 8JDQGD·V PDUNHW WKH ÀUVW RI LWV NLQG DV LW one reads expression on his face. drives home its value addition campaign. Other products include Omurondo liqueur, cassava snackies, amaranth But before we left he told us, “our job is to help people products range, banana juice, obushera, basically the set up industries on their own not the otherway round,”. traditional products done at the village level but this time “We don’t want to spoon feed someone,” he added. produced on industrial scale. “We encourage families of incubatees to be part of the “Our philosophy is you come to the centre as an individual, business so that when one dies, this business or enterprise and you exit as an enterprise” he observed. “When we does not collapse. There is need for continuity and that’s take in an indivisual, we help her or him to register the when we can meet our mission,” he added. company, develop and plan the product and promote the product on the market” he notes. “When prospective incubatees come to the centre. No QHHGWRDVNIRUTXDOLÀFDWLRQV'R\RXKDYHEXVLQHVVLGHD “Once the person starts marketing the product during in your mind? Come. That’s our interest. We train you,” incubation, this creates room for employment. So he explained. employment begins while the company is being incubated and for every enterprise undergoing incubation it must For a family or group, the centre charges 400,000 per week have at least three people attached to that enterprise. and later they start paying user fees for the services like When they leave it means the production capacity can electricity, water and other utilities at the centre. The sustain them when they are outside there,” he said. training fees are well below the ordinary training centres in Uganda. He observed, “at the same time there is linkage between the farmers who are supplying raw materials. So the “We receive approximately Uganda shillings 4.5bn from farmers have market for their raw materials and therefore the Presidential Initiative per year. Most of it is invested guaranteed income and therefore increased production. in infrastructure and machinery. Part of it goes to support You can see the integration of job creation, enterprise WKHLQFXEDWHHVZKRDUHEHQHÀFLDULHVSDUWRILWJRHVLQWR development and wealth creation, all combined”. Research and Development aimed at improving incubatees’ Bread from Crane bakery Uganda @ 54 | 75 Incubation products on display at the centre shop. The Centre also has a mobile fruit and vegetable processing plant, designed by Makerere University staff and manufactured by Alvan Blanch, UK. This has been deployed in different parts of Uganda to facilitate processing of mangoes and tomatoes, enabling crop stabilisation and value addition. The innovations at Makerere University FTBIC are emerging as a key theme in Uganda’s and the Africa’s long- WHUPVWUDWHJ\$JHQGDDV$IULFDQVÀQGEHWWHUZD\V of solving local problems. Despite challenging factors such as access to capital, inadequate infrastructure and indited technical manpower, Africa is brimming with a rising generation of creative-thinking innovators who are constantly developing new technologies to help simplify lives and transform societies. In addition, Makerere recently, unveiled a multi-purpose tractor called the MV Mulimi at the University’s Agricultural Research Institute. The three-wheel mobile innovation is made out of a combination of wood and steel, and KDV VHYHUDO IXQFWLRQV RWKHU WKDQ SORXJKLQJ ÀHOGV DQG transporting farm produce. The MV Mulimi also pumps water for irrigation, threshes maize and can charge phones. New incubation machinery procured under Presidential Initiative funding. 76 | Uganda @ 54 Makerere’s Food Technology and Business Incubation Center (FTBIC) leads in producing techy savvy enterprises he Food Technology and Business Incubation center Gas Chromatography mass spectrometer (GCMS) and High LV WKH ÀUVW XQLYHUVLW\ EDVHG WHFKQRORJ\ DQG EXVLQHVV SHUIRUPDQFH/LTXLG&KURPDWRJUDSK\ +3/& IRUWHVWLQJÁDYRU incubator in the East and Central African region. The compounds. center was commissioned by H.E President Y.K Museveni Tin 2009. To boost meat and milk processing, meat processing and dairy lines have been procured. To support the centre community The core business of FTBIC is technology transfer and nurturing outreach activities and engagements, the centre has acquired knowledge based enterprises and food processing and nutrition a 30 seater mini bus, a Utility double cabin pickup and a ÀHOGV 7KH FHQWHU WDUJHWV \RXWKV DQG RWKHU JURXSV ZLWK Refrigerated truck to maintain a cold chain during distribution. technology and or business ideas of high commercial potential The centre has also ordered for machinery for processing in the areas of food processing, nutrition and allied industries. EUHDNIDVW FHUHDOV OLNH FRUQ ÁDNHV DQG KDV DFTXLUHG D PRELOH fruit and vegetable processing plant to facilitate processing of The centers Program thrusts include nurturing new technology fruits from production areas. driven food and enterprises, promoting entrepreneurship among students and university staff, offering technical support to the The incubates (mostly fresh graduates) have access to processing food industry, technology transfer, commissioned research, facilities and are provided with technical support to boost their process and product development. capacity in production, marketing and business management. This has led to the development of new food value addition The other core programmes Quality management and trouble enterprises. So far, eleven agro processing enterprises have shooting, Nutrition clinic and Nutrition education and out been set up. They include, Dawn Industries, Smart Foods, research. Hamko, Choice Cuts Ltd, Samalina Beverages, Jordan Foods, House of Russa, Nutreal Ltd, and Food and Nutrition Solutions The FTBIC was established at the School of Food Technology, Ltd. Nutrition and Bio engineering to develop new food value addition businesses based on research conducted at Makerere University Products such as bottled pineapple juice cocktails, soya bean and to support the University to produce job creators. With the products, sausages, smoked meat, Omulondo liquor, canned ÀQDQFLDOVXSSRUWRIEQ8*;IURPJRYHUQPHQWWKURXJKWKH .DWXQNXPDOHPRQJUDVVÁDYRUHGWHDQXWULHQWGHQVHFRRNLHV Presidential Initiative for Value addition, the centre procured amarathus products, canned maize and beans and health bars equipment including Mobile fruit processor to be utilized for are in leading retail outlets in the country, contributing to collection and processing of fruit to juice concentrates in the import substitution. communities and Twin screw extruder for processing of starchy staples to ready-to-use products. The high value laboratory equipments at the centre, which are used to analyze the nutritive value and sensory properties of the value added products before they enter the market include: Infrared grain analyzer for moisture content, )LEUHWHF DQDO\]HU IRU UDSLG DQDO\VLV RI ÀEHU FRQWHQW$WRPLF Absorption Spectrometer (AAS) for a range of quality tests, Nutreal Products on the market One of the Workers’ of Smart foods displays TOFU Product Uganda @ 54 | 77 Makerere takes on project prosperity for all o consolidate the that is applicable anywhere with a focus to mind- independence of change. We have applied it in Somali Punt land, the majority of the Liberia and in Uganda with impressive outcomes. people of Uganda, It is time Uganda government supported this Tthere is need to seek them initiative with its recurrent expenses to enable out, hence the government AFRISA reach the unreached,” Kansiime notes. policy over the last 40yrs for the transformation of the $SSUHFLDWLYH RI $)5,6$·V EHQHÀWV SHRSOH RIWHQ 80 per cent of Ugandans, mobilise resources and then invite AFRISA to train the peasantry into a middle them. Such are the 100 farmers in north Ankole income state. Diocese whom President Museveni has recently given a milk cooling plant for harnessing their President Yoweri Museveni produce, which they are sustaining. This is a vote tasked the university to RIFRQÀGHQFHLQWKLVLQLWLDWLYH creatively think of how science can be used to AFRISA writes proposals to development agencies transform the people, unlike like FAO to funds elements of its programmes; the universal practice of however FAO will support programmes with academic aggrandisement conditions on where the expenditure can be WKDW GRHV QRW EHQHÀW WKH directed, not necessarily where AFRISA needs it. majority of the people who Whereas Uganda is 54 years as an independence cannot go to university. Hence the Africa Institute for Strategic Services and Development (AFRISA) is an institute within Makerere University that Uganda government and the University agreed to establish to appropriate prosperity and thus make this policy of government to work. Dr. Kansiime Micheal Its programmes aim at reaching the hitherto needy but unreached. Those at the community level that the University could not traditionally skill, mentor, help and provide services to. The university needs to be relevant to the common man...the third generation university. AFRISA therefore looks at the welfare and livelihood of the people who support the university through taxes. Dr. Kansiime Michael is the Head of Secretariat of Makerere University’s, AFRISA. He is a business man and a social entrepreneur and professional Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. AFRISA’s programmes are unique and taught in the local languages, “We have developed a soft ware 78 | Uganda @ 54 nation that is ‘gifted by nature’, and whereas AFRISA operates Their produce quality gets better, hence better prices, the under the College of Veterinary, Animal Resources and Bio- production get more reliable, they get customers faster and security, its programmes are grass root based and artisan in their business growth is faster. Our goods and services need to nature. be competitive; we are in a global market and thus arrive at prosperity for all. Students take on and are trained at programmes they have been carrying out with their own hands, a business that earns ¶%LRVHFXULW\· LWVVSHFLÀFV money; milking, cow, goat, piggery, bees or chicken feeding. 7KH\ DUH WKHQ DVVLVWHG WR ÀQG HQWHUSULVHV WKDW FDQ SURSHUO\ Man’s biggest enemy with a lethal potential are the bacteria integrate. and viruses because they are not seen. Bio-security is about protecting man from these microscopic beings. The ones with cows are trained to grow coffee and matooke, using cow manure to improve crops yield. They are trained in Dr. Kansiime notes that Uganda is situated in the epicentre the use of alternative energy, using biogas to curb the clearing of the micro- organisms existing in the world. The equatorial of trees, a realistic approach to realise healthier and wealthier region climate is teeming with bacterial, insects, viruses and communities. disease causing organisms hosted by animals; Ebola, Zika, Marburg, N1H1 all of which are very dangerous hence the need 7KRVHZKRZDQWDFFUHGLWHGFHUWLÀFDWHVQHHGWRKDYHREWDLQHG to prevent them from killing us off? D PLQLPXP RI ¶2·/HYHO FHUWLÀFDWHV DQG ZLOO JUDGXDWH ZLWK D skill and an academic paper of Makerere University while the The idea is to know how they multiply and infect us and enterprise earns money for the proprietor. They can then therefore how to avoid being infected, which is what bio proceed to acquire a diploma and then a degree, through this security is about. It is an area that is better handled by animal academic highway for an ordinary person who did not score practitioners since the germs are all in animals. Veterinary distinctions for entry into the university. medicine is thus pertinent to human medicine; veterinarians understand better the issues of infectious diseases and can Indeed, it is radically unlike the model where people graduated share information with the human medicine practitioners. ZLWK YHU\ JRRG DFDGHPLF TXDOLÀFDWLRQ SDSHUV \HW ZLWKRXW employable skills. With increased training at the different Veterinarians provide technical assistance in laboratory tests levels of mentoring and experience hence accreditation; one are carried for human medicine on animals--the rats, rabbits gets to study get to grips with the science and technology and baboons et al. Thus bio security is a whole world of science associated with their products. that is critical to the survival of man. President Museveni (Centre) and First Lady Janet Museveni appreciates AFRISA graduate’s shoes Uganda @ 54 | 79 Participants in Atiak AFRISA approach works Farming is about plants and animals, which co- exist. Animals eat plants and plants get manure from animals. At AFRISA, a blend of the science of the books and the science in nature for a lay person to understand what we are talking about to improve their output and earn; science must earn an income if it is not fake. To reach the people who need these services, the necessary soft-ware for mass skilling and training of Ugandans has been developed; it is a model for use as Uganda for national transformation. It is the SPEDA model....Skills, Production, Enterprise Development, Academic growth. The academic growth brings in the element of competitiveness which is FULWLFDOIRUFUHDWLQJWUXVWDQGFRQÀGHQFHLQWKHSURGXFW SPEDA deals with setting up cottage industries; it deals with mindset change, people selecting enterprises where they feel they have energy. People of the same enterprise are trained together and given capacity, and they will be earning money IURPWKHLUHQWHUSULVHVE\WKHWLPHWKH\ÀQLVKWKHFRXUVH Dr Kansiime says the concept has been tested through partnerships, with the Church of Uganda as the leading one, “We know it works. We now have 900 students in the system, paying fees for themselves. They are self-supported through their own enterprises. The government cannot even give them scholarships.” AFRISA is run by 16 volunteers who only earn when they make a project; “We work very hard to write projects, implement them and then get allowances--it is a patriotic programme. Hay making 80 | Uganda @ 54 We teach mindset change, entrepreneurship, we take people for attachment and teach the science.” Typically, a course was conducted between November 2014 and June 2015 courtesy of AFRISA. The topics FRYHUHG RYHU WKH PRQWKV RI WUDLQLQJ LQFOXGH ÀVK production, piggery, poultry, zoo, bees, diary industries and business among others. President Museveni who presided over their graduation was happy that they have worked on agriculture production and congratulated them of polishing their skills like the preservation of yoghurts and processing of hydes and skins to the level of making shoes. He also lauded them for the knowledge and skill they had acquired in the production of hay. 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TSectoral mechanism for leveraging partnership on local development and 9The largest number of public servants today decentralized governeance , who deliver the basic essential services to the population are recruited,disciplined and employed by the local Governments and these Presently the Public Private Partnership include all primary and secondary teachers in (PPP) model has been integrated into Government primary and secondary Schools, the Local Economic Development all health workers , all Subcounty and parish model and the two are being employees, to name but a few. championed to stimulate economic development at grassroot. 9The bulk of the basic social services such as primary education, primary health care, With guidance from the Ministry, all community and feeder roads, sanitations, water Local government have established points, markets as well as the agricultural Business Economic forums. These services are provided by the Local Governments comprise of all the local economic across the country. Over the last twenty years, Hon. Tom Butime, development stake holders in their the quality and quantity of social services have Minister of Local respective localities. These forums are responsible for been steadily growing. Government identifying viable economic ventures and mobilizing resources for economic investment. 9The “Wanainchi” access Justice and their Human rights are taken care of by the Local Councils which are quite active country wide. Achievements under This is done through Local Councils and various decentralisation and local communities of Council at almost no cost. governance 9All previous National Elections and of late, all major national programmes like the Mass The Ministry of Local Government has made major Enrollment exercise and the recently concluded achievements under Decentralization and Local National Population and Housing Census of Governance. 2015 and Operation Wealth Creation have been managed through Local Government structures 9There is now popularly elected political because they are most suited and have the leaders both in Parliament and at a local level, advantage point for ease of implementation. Stalls for agricultural products in a clean and safe environment at Hoima Market 88 | Uganda @ 54 President Museveni with Ms.Park Geun-Hye South Korean President, KOICA has partnered with GoU to set up a National Farmers Leadership Institute in Kampiringisa, Mpigi District 9As noted, the Local Economic Development and Rural Development. KOICA also partnered (LED) Policy is one of the current Government with GoU to set up a National Farmers Leadership drives, towards local economic development; Institute in Kampiringisa in Mpigi District. however the policy lacks an aggregated funding mechanism which could steer various local The Japan International Cooperation Agency enterprises and wealth creation in most of our (JICA) has implemented the Capacity Local communities. Development planning and implementation of community development projects in Acholi 9There has also been revitalization of the Human Sub-region (ACAP), assisting 5 Districts that Resource Department in Local Governments is Amuru, Gulu,Kitgum, Nwoya and Pader. It which has helped revive the Human Resource targeted enhancing capacities in terms of Development function in Local Governments budgeting and budget execution, facilities and timely payment of salaries, pensions and information management and capacity to plan gratuities. DQG LPSOHPHQW SURMHFWV UHÁHFWLQJ FRPPXQLW\ priorities and Local Government development needs. The International Fund for Agriculture (IFAD) Development partners has provided support to the District Livelihoods Support Programme (DLSP). The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) supported government to strengthen The African Development Bank (AFDB) which the Local Government Structures for planning is providing support for construction of and budgeting for decentralized service markets under the Markets and Agriculture delivery in line with the second National Trade Improvement Project (MATIP), Markets Development Plan (NDP II). With this support, constructed include Wandegeya Market, Gulu new planning guidelines were issued as well as Market, Lira Market and Jinja Market among Public Private Partnership (PPP) guidelines for others. Local Governments among other things. The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) is providing There is also emergence of new partners support under the Community Agriculture in decentralization sector who have either Infrastructure Improvement Programme (CAIIP) reinforced the existing efforts or added new at the millennium Villages Project. dimensions that need to be acknowledged and appreciated. These include the Korea The mandate of Local Governments is extremely International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) massive and keeps on growing day by day. The demands which is providing capacity support of the public keep increasing and the solutions are to decentralization through short time training becoming more complex. To deliver all these required on Local Administration, Local Economic services, the Local Governments need to receive more Development, Human Resource Management than 15% from the National Budget is it is now. Uganda @ 54 | 89 Bridge constructed across river Rwizi at Nyakarama central village has helped connecting Shuuku and Rugarama sub counties in Sheema district. Marketing of agricultural produce along one of the rehabilitated roads under the programme in Rukiri Sub County,Ibanda District Contact: Plot 1 Pilkington Road, Workers’ House 2nd Floor, P.O.Box 7037 Kampala T el: +256 414 347 338, Fax +256 414 250 047 90 | Uganda @ 54 At 54years, Uganda’s shifting politico-economic alignment QWKHUHDOPRISROLWLFVDVWKH\LQÁXHQFHWKHHFRQRPLFV This country had been governed alongside Kenya, alignments gravitate around the prevailing needs of Tanganyika and Zanzibar, a kind of economic collective the state as perceived by its political actors and to the British India Company had perceived as an economic some extent those of their constituents. Thus mindful, HQWHUSULVHIRUWKHGHOLYHU\RIFRPPHUFLDOEHQHÀWV)RU Uganda’s alignments at a given time, even before various reasons including management challenges, the Iindependence have been a function of the cross fertilisation Company ceded the administration of these and other of the times with her priority needs, in relation to the WHUULWRULHVWRWKH%ULWLVKFRORQLDORIÀFHIRUJRYHUQDQFH obtaining politico-economic realities as they are manifested by the prevailing regional and global developments. By the time Uganda attained her independence from the British, the railways and harbours, currency board, posts By 1962, Uganda’s politico-economic landscape had been and telecommunications, customs, airlines, agriculture dominated and shaped by the United Kingdom of Great development, research on diseases like trypanasomiasis, Britain for close to 100 years. It was natural then that when leprosy, rinderpest and a host of others, were jointly the Union Jack was lowered, the Crested Crane sought managed. WRÁ\WRWKHFOLPHVWKDWZRXOGDFFHOHUDWHDQGVWUHQJWKHQ Uganda’s self-determination. China-Uganda solidarity. Uganda @ 54 | 91 and Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nassar. They were The Non-Aligned Movement the leading founder members from among 25 countries; Afghanistan, Algeria, Yemen, Myanmar, Cambodia, Sri Building upon the pre-independence structure to Lanka, Congo, Cuba, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, consolidate her independence, Uganda like other newly Guinea Conakry, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Lebanon, Mali, independent states, joined the non-aligned movement that Morocco, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Tunisia also furthered the independence struggles of the people of and Yugoslavia. Africa, Asia, Latin America and other regions of the world and at the height of the Cold War This was an approach to avoiding the disadvantages of EHLQJLGHQWLÀHGZLWKHLWKHUWKH:HVW GHPRFUDWLFZLWK The British Council free-entreprise economy) Block led by the United States of Nonetheless, whereas the British had ceded power and America or the East (Communist centrally planned economy) ‘left’, they had a subtle design for perpetuating some form Block dominated by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics RIFRQQHFWLYLW\DQGLQÁXHQFHRYHUWKHLUIRUPHUFRORQLHV that coalesced around Russia in Europe. Uganda inclusive. The convenient delivery vehicle of choice was the British Council (initially, the ‘British Committee Through this approach, members of the non-aligned for Relations with Other Countries’), an organ which, with movement would get development support from either IRUHVLJKWWKH\KDGIRXQGHGLQ DQGRSHQHGLWVÀUVW block. It was during these times that Uganda got Tororo RYHUVHDVRIÀFHVLQ Girls School through USAID and Busitema College for Mechanised Agriculture from the Soviet Union. “The Council’s aim is to create in a country overseas a basis of friendly knowledge and understanding of the people The non-aligned movement was dominated by Josip Broz of this country, of their philosophy and way of life, which Tito, the president of Yugoslavia, Indian Prime Minister will lead to a sympathetic appreciation of British foreign Jawarharlal Nehru, Ghana’s President Kwame Nkrumah policy, whatever for the moment that policy may be and 92 | Uganda @ 54 from whatever political conviction it may spring. While in own libraries which were popular up to the 1980s. times of danger this friendly knowledge and understanding becomes vital to the successful prosecution of war (that is In most former British colonies (the Commonwealth), the Council’s place in the war effort), in times of peace it is Uganda inclusive, English has retained its importance as a not less valuable,” British Council Annual Report 1940-41. common language that is understood around the world, and in which many educational resources are available. From the 1960s to date, the British Council has delivered a range of services in book provision, education and technical Registered as a charity for international cultural relations, co-operation, especially in the Commonwealth states. It has the Council provided a range of educational support, consistently maintained a dedicated presence by connecting particularly in English, mathematics and science teaching over one million students through a connecting classrooms alongside teacher training, syllabus development, programme, thus stronger partnerships, bringing mutual broadcast of educational TV programmes, and university EHQHÀWWRWKRVHDFURVVWKHUHJLRQDQGLQWKH8. development. Fellowships, scholarships and workplace exchanges have been provided to trainees and professionals $FFRUGLQJWRWKH%ULWLVK&RXQFLOZHEVLWHLWVRIÀFHVLQ in practical subjects, including electrical engineering and British East Africa opened in 1943; it extended into the agriculture. West African states in 1947 and Southern Africa in the 1960s. Consistent funding has enabled the building of its As its work grew, the British Council received funding from ZRUNLQ¶%ULWLVK·$IULFD,WVRIÀFHVDQGOLEUDULHVRSHUDWH the Overseas Development Ministry (now the Department for a range of activities including education that has earned International Development (DfID)) and the World Bank, and much affection for the British, at least among the educated collaborated with other agencies to develop educational elite. resources. This arrangement has enabled the cultivation of DSURXGFURSRISURIHVVLRQDOSUR%ULWLVKLQÁXHQWLDO8JDQGDQ Before the digital era, the Council helped to build public elite that is useful in maintaining UK-Uganda ties to the cultural centres, in collaboration with local communities former’s advantage. like the Kenyan and Ugandan National Theatres, which opened in 1952 and 1960 respectively. It also maintained Makere Confucius Institute students after a performance on China Autumn Day at China’s Embassy in Kampala Uganda @ 54 | 93 USh325billion (€116million), to reconstruct the 125km (78ml), EU support stretch of the East African “Northern Corridor”, between Changed times and circumstances subsequently necessitated Mbarara and Katuna through the towns of Ntungamo, Kabale. Uganda’s enhanced alignment to the European Union (EU). Prior to this, it had granted Uganda 11m Euro (about sh26.7b) This country has received support from the European towards the construction of feeder roads in seven districts &RPPLVVLRQLQWKHDUHDVRIWUDQVSRUWLQIUDVWUXFWXUHDQGUXUDO XQGHUWKH'LVWULFW5RDGV5HJUDYHOOLQJ3URMHFWWKDWEHQHÀWHG development since the 1970s. the districts of Busia, Bugiri, Jinja, Mukono, Wakiso, Mpigi 7KH (8 ZHEVLWH VWDWHV WKDW 8JDQGD EHQHÀWHG IURP D WRWDO and Masaka. EU funding of €439 million between 2008 and 2013 under the The EU further supported the construction of a bridge across 10th European Development Fund (EDF) in the above sectors. $ZRMD5LYHULQ6RURWL'LVWULFWZLWKÀQDQFLDODVVLVWDQFHIURP The programming also extended support to Uganda’s general WKH(XURSHDQ'HYHORSPHQW)XQGKDYLQJHDUOLHUÀQDQFHGWKH budget (MDG contract) and to activities in non-focal areas, construction of a new bridge across Aswa River in northern such as democratic governance and civil society. Uganda Uganda. received EDF funding of €80.8 million in 2010. 7KH &RPPLVVLRQ DOVR ÀQDQFHV SURMHFWV LQ WKH DUHDV RI WKH environment, civil society, human rights and democracy, health, food security and peace and stability, through the In comes China general budget of the European Union. All the while this was happening; the People’s Republic The EU Road Sector Support Programme, has in the recent of China’s economic has accelerated the giant country’s years prominently supported Uganda through Uganda appetite for raw materials and investment abroad, easing National Roads Authority (UNRA) to develop the Northern LWVHOI LQWR WKH ÀUVW ZRUOG 7KH YDVW &RXQWU\·V FROOHFWLYH Corridor Route. It is funding the development of Kampala demands match its population of over 1.4 billion on 3.71m Northern Bypass, a semicircular road through Kampala’s sq miles. QRUWKHUQVXEXUEVWRUHOLHYHWUDIÀFFRQJHVWLRQZLWKLQWKH&LW\ center. It had also earlier supported the reconstruction of Thanks to the foresight of the Communist Party of China Jinja-Bugiri Highway. that has dominated the country’s politics since it won the civil war against the Kuomintang (a political party that ruled In December 2010, the European Union extended a grant of &KLQD IURP WR DQG WKHQ ÁHG WR7DLZDQ LQ and took power in 1949. It has maintained an embassy in Kampala since October 1962 even under Idd Amin. Emboldened by the economic muscle it has developed over the last 30years, China’s visibility in Uganda has become so palpable to the disadvantage of the western world’s LQÁXHQFHSDUWLFXODUO\ZLWKWKHSRVWLQJRI$PEDVVDGRU=KDR Yali to Kampala since 2011. Not unlike the west, China is imperceptibly but on a grand scale worming into the Ugandan’s psyche. Like the British Council, the vehicle of choice is the Confucius Institute created at Makerere University three years ago, ostensibly to introduce Mandarin and popularize the language among the upcoming elite. To bolster this design, Uganda government has engaged Luyanzi College at Bweyogere, a secondary school managed by a Chinese Ugandan, Ms Wang Li Hong to prepare to tutor Ugandan teachers in preparation for the universal teaching of Mandarin at the secondary school level. Chinese built Ibanda-Kamwenge Road 94 | Uganda @ 54 Eng John Byabagambi receives mosquito nets from China Ambassador H.E. Zhao Yali Makerere University along with the Government of China strategic development in the sector of infrastructure. He DQG ;LDQJWDQ 8QLYHUVLW\ ODXQFKHG WKH &RQIXFLXV ,QVWLWXWH has stated, “I have witnessed the ground breaking and on December 19, 2014 under a partnership between the development of Kampala-Entebbe Expressway that should be two universities to train and teach Chinese language and completed in 2017 to a high quality; and the groundbreaking culture in Uganda. Vice President Edward Sekandi said that for Entebbe Airport expansion, Karuma and Isimba Hydro understanding Mandarin will acquaint Ugandans with the Power Stations. &KLQHVHQRUPVDQGYDOXHVWKDWKDYHLQÁXHQFHG&KLQD·VIDVW economic growth. Besides the Confucius project, China has We are now talking about the standard gauge railway RYHUWKHODVWÀYH\HDUVRIIHUHGLQVHUYLFHVKRUWWUDLQLQJ construction, another project of strategic importance; RSSRUWXQLWLHVWRJRYHUQPHQWHPSOR\HHVRIÀFLDOVDWYDULRXV a Chinese company has signed a commercial contract to levels including ministers. In 2015, it organised training construct Malaba-Kampala line. Uganda government is in IRU8JDQGDQSROLFHDQGFXVWRPVRIÀFHUV%HWZHHQ WKH SURFHVV RI QHJRWLDWLQJ ZLWK &KLQD (;,0 %DQN WR VHFXUH and 2016, China has provided 200 scholarships to young ÀQDQFLDOVXSSRUWIRUWKHSURMHFWµ 8JDQGDQ VWXGHQWV LQ YDULRXV ÀHOGV LQFOXVLYH RI PHGLFLQH social sciences, and technology. Scholars say Confucius Notwithstanding China’s prominent support and good was a medieval philosopher sage whose political thought will, Uganda is challenged by how to translate her lofty was based upon his ethical thought. While he supported plans pronounced by Vision 2040 and 2020 transformation. the idea of government ruling by a virtuous king, Confucius 2YHU WKH ODVW ÀYH \HDUV GHOHJDWLRQV IURP &KLQD KDYH believed that if a ruler were to lead correctly, by action, visited Uganda, among them the Chairman of the Standing orders would be unnecessary in that others will follow the Committee of the People’s Congress in September 2013. proper actions of their ruler. Confucius believed in ruling by example and correctly, rather than through orders, coercion The Deputy Chairperson of the People’s Congress attended th or punishment. Uganda’s 50 independence anniversary, representing the President of China and Madam Yen Jan Ching, the Vice Chair Confucius ideology has been introduced when under various Woman of the Standing Committee of The People’s Congress, programmes, China and its construction companies have a special envoy of China’s President at President Museveni’s delivered a number of quality development projects in swear-in on May 12, 2016. record completion time and at cost, unlike what had become the Ugandan custom expectation. 2WKHUV ZHUH WKH 'HSXW\ 3ULPH 0LQLVWHU6WDWH &RQVXODU D State Consular and the Minister for Defence at the end of As he ended his tour of duty, Amb Zhao Yali said China and 2011. The Minister for Foreign Affairs visited Uganda from 10 Uganda governments have worked very closely to achieve to 11th of August. Uganda @ 54 | 95 More than 10 Uganda delegations visited China; President construction is underway. US$200m industrial park in For the three years from 2012, bilateral trade was about US$640m of which China exported about US$6oo and Uganda Looking ahead about US$50m. Chinese Companies have invested US$2.1bn In December 2015, China and South Africa organised the in Uganda and created 45’222 job opportunities; together second summit of the Forum On China Africa Cooperation with ZTE, a Chinese company, UETCL invested US$2.5m in )2&$& DW ZKLFK &KLQD·V 3UHVLGHQW ;L -LQSLQJ DQQRXQFHG the transmission of a high speed data network. a ten point cooperation plan entailing, among others, Fifty Chinese companies are operating in Uganda on the industrialisation, modernisation of agriculture and power basis of Engineering Procurement and Construction (EPC) development under which China would provide US$60bn for funded by Uganda government, World Bank, AfDB, Islamic its implementation in three years from 2016 to 2018. Uganda Back et al and delivered work worth US$3.6bn. and other African countries could seize this opportunity to develop their technology and know-how. 8JDQGD JRYHUQPHQW KDV ERUURZHG IURP &KLQD (;,0 %DQN for the construction of Karuma and Isimba hydro power China Communications Construction Company is ready to stations, Kampala-Entebbe Expressway and Entebbe Airport; undertake the construction of 9km Kibuye-Busega stretch Uganda has also used some concessionary loan money for under the terms they have already signed with Ministry of e Government and road equipment purchased by Local )LQDQFHDQG&KLQD(;,0%DQNIRUWKHPDLQ.DPSDOD(QWHEEH Government all amounting to US$2.5bn. Expressway artery. 7KH 6WDQGDUG *DXJH 5DLOZD\ FRQVWUXFWLRQ D ÀYH \HDUV· Thus the entrepreneurial and venturing spirit of that Indian contract, will be China’s biggest. Its construction will be Dukawallah who, riding on the coat tails of the British followed by that of a Kampala railway line, and then the colonialist, introduced modern commerce and trade to Ayago Hydro Electricity plant. CNOOK investment in oil Uganda’s remotest village and even founded vast plantations processing is to the tune of US$2bn. and industries seems to exist big-time in the Chinese too. The hope is that the Ugandan has his ears and eyes open. &KLQHVH ÀUPV DUH DOVR LQYROYHG LQ WKH GHYHORSPHQW RI industrial parks; Luweero US$200m worth industrial park 1HDUO\FRPSOHWH&KLQDEXLOW.DPSDOD(QWHEEH([SUHVVZD\ 96 | Uganda @ 54 YMCA COLLEGE OF Interesting the youth in coffee investments BUSINESS STUDIES JINJA 4PUPZ[Y`VM,K\JH[PVU :WVY[Z9LN5V 7ZZJ@ &OLPD[LVDQ+HUEDO(QHUJ\GULQNZLWK KHUEDOLQJUHGLHQWVDQGFDIIHLQHWKDWJLYHVD unique power boost 0788664986 | 0784122712 | 0781967090 32%R[-,1-$ 8*$1'$ 0DLQ6WUHHW 23326,7(-,1-$32/,&(67$7,21 Email: LQIR#MRPDDUVDIDULVFRP Website:ZZZMRPDDUVDIDULVFRP Uganda @ 54 | 97 The President’s 10-20 Point Programme over the years 20-point programme of 2016 Revised 10-point programme, 2012 1. Lower the cost of electricity )LJKWLQJLGHRORJLFDOGLVRULHQWDWLRQ 2. Lower cost of transport (OLPLQDWLQJVHFWDULDQLVP 3. Build 22 Industrial Parks to attract investors ,PSURYLQJHGXFDWLRQWRUH¿QHKXPDQUHVRXUFH 4. 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