2014 Annual report
UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME - UGANDA About UNDP
We are committed to supporting the Government of Uganda to achieve sustainable development, create opportunities for empowerment, protect the environment, minimise natural and man-made disasters, build strategic partnerships, and improve the quality of life for all citizens, as set out in the Country Programme Action Plan (CPAP) for the years 2010 to 2015, and the United Nations Development Assistance Framework (UNDAF) for Uganda.
UNDP UGANDA ANNUAL REPORT 2014
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Copyright © 2014 United Nations Development Programme Annual Report 2014 Contents
Foreword 4
Democratic Governance 6
Community Policing promotes peace in Karamoja Region 10
Inclusive and Sustainable Development 12
Value Chains: Supporting inclusive markets in Agriculture 17 and Trade to improve lives of farmers in Uganda
Climate and Disaster Resilience 20
Gender Equality and Women Empowerment 25
Equipping girls with vocational skills to increase their chances 27 of employment
UN Volunteers Programme in Uganda 29
The Post 2015 Process in Uganda 30
Our 2014 Highlights 34
3 Foreword Dear Reader, am pleased to present to you this Annual Report, which chronicles our key programme successes and stories of human empowerment and community Itransformation in Uganda in 2014. Overall, the country continued to make progress in pursuit of sustainable development, maintaining an average growth rate of 6.4 percent in 2013, and a ranking of 19th out of 52 countries in the Ibrahim Index of African Governance.
Despite these gains, a number of development challenges remain, particularly political stability, voice, service delivery, and accountability. About US $250-300million of public resources is lost through corruption annually. The 3 percent population growth rate, coupled with high poverty rates in the north (44 percent) and in the east (24.5 percent) compared to the rest of the national average at 19.7 percent, also threatens to compound inequality and derail the country’s Vision2040 of transforming to a middle income status over the next 30 years. Annual Report 2014
We remain committed to The plan is also aligned to of the Millennium Development supporting Government of the sustainable development Goals (MDGs), and to strengthen Uganda, to address many of goals in conformity of the post the localisation of the post-2015 these challenges, and have 2015 Agenda for which UNDP and Sustainable Development positioned our programmes facilitated a national policy Goals (SDGs) framework in to achieve the eradication dialogue led by H.E. Sam Kutesa, Uganda. of poverty, inequality, and President of the UN General exclusion, in line with our global Assembly. Further engagement in strategy. strengthening governance As part of efforts to build by deepening the peace In 2014, UNDP was chosen resilience and lower the risk of architecture through the by Government to lead vulnerability to natural disasters, National Consultative Forum, development partners’ support UNDP provided support for the will be explored. for the preparation of the establishment of the National second National Development Emergency and Coordination Focus will be on advocating for Plan (NDPII 2016-2020). Centre (NECOC) under the adoption and implementation Technical and financial support Office of the Prime Minister of electoral and constitutional was provided in form of (OPM). In addition, the National amendments to pave way for evidence-based issues papers, a Environment Management free, fair and credible elections macroeconomic strategy, M&E Policy was successfully revised due to take place in 2015. framework and spatial maps, to while preparation of Uganda’s We are grateful for the excellent inform the Plan. Wetland Atlas is on track for partnership with Government, completion before the end of and the people of Uganda, as 2015. well as the collaboration and UNDP provided Value chains in both the support of other stakeholders, support for the tourism and agricultural sectors including development partners, (beans, cassava and rice) were and the larger UN family. establishment of the strengthened, and the Tourism We remain committed to National Emergency Policy revised and adopted by empowering lives and building cabinet in 2014. The Tourism resilience. and Coordination Master Plan (2014-2024), which Centre (NECOC) has potential to increase national foreign earnings by $1.4 billion annually and create As a result, the NDPII, more than 150,000 jobs, was 2016-2020, has prioritized also launched in the course of investments in agriculture, the year. tourism, minerals, infrastructure Throughout 2015, we will Ahunna Eziakonwa-Onochie and human capital continue to spearhead efforts United Nations Resident development sectors, with to accelerate the achievement Coordinator in Uganda governance as its backbone.
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ver the last 5 years of UNDP’s programming, great effort has been made to support government to improve the rule of law, and put in place policies and institutions that are Oparticipatory and inclusive of both women and men and also deliver high-quality services. Laying a foundation mapping and analysis of the for peace and four traditional regions of the country was undertaken as security part of UNDP’s support to help In 2014, focus was on 120 pinpoint triggers of conflict strengthening the capacities Police officers in 5 and violence, and pave way for to institutionalize platforms a mechanism to facilitate the that facilitate continuous and districts in Northern intervention of religious leaders sustainable internal dialogue Uganda trained in in mediation. and consensus building - key community policing With regard to Northern building blocks for democracy, Uganda, programming has as well as peace and security and outreach. mostly facilitated community at the national level and in dialogues, and mediation/ Northern Uganda, which conflict resolution processes, remains a key focus of UN and Complementary to the work in addition to promoting UNDP interventions. of the NCF, the Elders Forum, community policing initiatives At the national level, UNDP’s comprising of eminent retired to prevent and manage crime. Ugandan citizens, has been support was particularly Some 120 police officers (25 facilitated to dialogue on the instrumental in enabling the of them women) have been need for electoral reforms, and National Consultative Forum, trained in community policing to also directly engage with the constitutional body on in 9 districts of Northern local and national leadership in political dialogue, to develop Uganda, as part of UNDP’s putting out the flaring conflict electoral and constitutional support to the nationwide roll- in Rwenzori region in South amendments that would pave out of the National Community Western Uganda. way for free, fair and credible Policing Strategy launched by elections in 2016. The engagement of NCF, the Uganda Police Force in As a result of this support, the combined with the Elders 2014. NCF, under the leadership of Forum has seen the the Prime Minister, Dr Ruhakana development of a number of Rugunda, received financial constitutional and electoral resources from the Government reforms that have been of Uganda for the first time submitted for consideration 100 since 2005. This was also a by government ahead of the Women local leaders result of support from key 2016 elections (NCF Report on political leadership including Constitutional and Electoral in Lamwo, Pader, and the opposition, which shows Amendments, 2014) Agago districts trained increasing public confidence in To further augment the its work as well as its growing in community peace prospects for a long term relevance to the country’s peace architecture, conflict building initiatives. democratic future.
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Deepening decentralization for improved service 150 delivery Land, Sexual and In collaboration with the Ministry of Local Government Gender Based and National Planning Authority, Violence related cases UNDP has continued to support the operationalization resolved in 2014. of the decentralization policy. Key technical staff at the national and local government level have been trained to Community watch groups are utilise the revised Local now fully established to carry Government Development out day and night patrols which Planning Guidelines and the has resulted in prompt reporting harmonized guidelines, as well and subsequent decline as the indicators on Ministries in crime rates in targeted Departments and Agencies communities by up to 15%. (MDAs) and LG progress For instance in Moroto district About 253 (100 of them reporting. in the Karamoja region, the women) local leaders in Lamwo, Pader, and Agago community security group of Further capacity development districts in Northern Uganda Tapac successfully reported and for district leaders was were trained in gender averted the genital mutilation of undertaken resulting in responsive conflict prevention young girls, a cultural practice significant improvement in their and management resulting in that has been banned by the performance, and for the very peaceful resolution of 150 land government. first time, they were invited to and Sexual and Gender Based participate and to provide input A combined team of police Violence related cases in 2014. in to Government’s Annual and community constables Performance reporting process. rescued the 15 girls, and also This has greatly harmonized apprehended the would-be the process of planning and perpetrators. budgeting at the national and Following completion of a local level, and helped to ensure comprehensive capacity needs 120 greater efficiency and more assessment of traditional Justice Traditional leaders targeted allocation of resources Institutions of Ker Kwaro Acholi for the needs of citizens.* and Lango Cultural foundation for Ker Kwaro Acholi in Northern Uganda by UNDP, a and Lango Cultural capacity development plan was developed to improve record Foundation trained in keeping, planning, knowledge mediation, and peace *Source: District and Municipal sharing, monitoring and Councils Development Issues building. Papers for the Second National evaluation of performance of Development Plan, August 2014, P.9- traditional justice institutions. 11, Government Annual Performance Report, 2014, P. viii- ix).
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“National Development Plan II Validation workshops in Western Uganda; National Planning Authority receiving views from local government officials to add to NDPII.” The validation workshops which were conducted various regions in the country, were supported by UNDP in Uganda.
As part of the preparation for An analysis of Uganda’s 20 the second 5-year National years of decentralization Development Plan (NDPII), was completed with UNDP UNDP provided support for support and informed an Issues Paper on Local strategic repositioning in Government that outlined key local governance with greater development priorities and how focus on local economic 240 these can be achieved over the development and wealth next planning cycle. creation.*** Number of CSOs
Further support was extended A UNDP-supported opinion using open platforms to the National Planning survey on Uganda’s vision to increase citizen Authority to strengthen its 2040 done by the National public sector monitoring and Non-Government Organization voice in national and evaluation process. Training Forum observed increased local governance was provided to district public and community decision-making planners across the country conversations on service after which they were able to delivery and accountability. processes. prepare district/municipality scorecards.**
***Source: Decentralization and ** Source: Annual project progress Local Development in Uganda, July report Strengthening Oversight 2014 p.62) Functions for Accountable Service delivery, p.2).
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Community Policing promotes peace in Karamoja Region
Police discuss issues of community security with students of Agago High School in Agago District
KARAMOJA - In Nakapelimoru village, communities to sit together and discuss Kotido district, a large herd of cows has how to resolve the problem of the missing gone missing from the Jie, one of the cows without resorting to arms.The region’s native pastoral communities. police officers are able to successfully A new settlement tribe of the Turkana intervene due to their expertise in from across Kenya, is suspected of having community policing and managing peace stolen the cows, and the only course dialogues in the communities, skills they of justice for the Jie, is to retaliate in a acquired from training provided by the counter-raid and recover the stolen loot. United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) through its project on Local In this community, cows are sacred. Not Development and Social Cohesion Project only are they are a source of wealth and for Northern Uganda. As part of their livelihood but are also a mark of social training, police officers are taught how to standing. When cows are stolen, it is a handle such delicate disputes, and guiding serious business that inevitably calls for communities in seeking peaceful and legal retaliation. redress. In this particular case however, the For decades, the Karamoja region has conflict is averted before it happens after been a hub of internal and intra-regional police officers in the district intervene in conflict, having previously been an the nick of time and encourage the two
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enclave for small arms and light The perception of the police by weapons, cattle rustling and high the community is changed. Many rates of sexual gender based A combined now see officers as friendly allies violence. Whereas a successful team of police and partners in ensuring that their government disarmament process in villages are more peaceful. So far, 2012 brought relative peace to the and community 45 community peace dialogues led region, this remains fragile as the constables rescued by the police in the Baraza style majority of the community remains the 15 girls, and (village town hall meetings) have redundant with few economic been conducted reaching over prospects especially for the large also apprehended 4600 people in Northern Uganda, numbers of unemployed youth. the would-be particularly in the major crime hotspots such as Kaabong, Kotido, In 2014, the Uganda Police Force, perpetrators. Nakapiripirit, Amudat and Moroto adopted community policing, as districts. a strategy to improve community security in the country, particularly so in Northern Already six community based security groups, two Uganda which had suffered under the yoke of in Moroto and four in Kabong, have been formed the Lord’s Resistance Army rebellion against the during the sessions to ensure that both the police Government of Uganda for over two decades. and the community will continue to be actively UNDP’s support is designed to strengthen this involved in maintaining peace even when funding and other initiatives aimed at maintaining peace, for the training is over. building resilience and preventing the region from The training contributes to the larger United falling in to conflict in the future. Nations’ country effort to deliver as one and So far, about 120 police officers out of 300 have have benefitted from the input of various sister been trained in community policing, from five agencies including International Organisation for districts in the region, 25 of them women. This has Migration (IOM), UN Women, UN office of the resulted in the establishment of community watch High Commissioner for Human rights (OHCHR), groups that carry out day and night patrols leading UNICEF, UNFPA who shared their technical to prompt reporting and a subsequent decline in experience in the areas of peaceful conflict crime rates in targeted communities by up to 15%. resolution and preventing gender based violence. Police have also received additional support in For instance in Moroto district in the Karamoja form of information and education materials for region, the community security group of Tapac use in their community dialogue sessions. successfully reported and averted the genital mutilation of young girls, a cultural practice that The Local Development and Social Cohesion has been banned by the government. A combined Project for Northern Uganda Project is funded by team of police and community constables rescued UNDP from its core resources and its Bureau for the 15 girls, and also apprehended the would- Crisis Prevention and Recovery (BCPR) to a tune be perpetrators. “Without community policing, of 2.2M US dollars for two years. The project aims it is impossible to provide security to millions of to strengthen the post conflict recovery process community members with a small police force in in Northern Uganda as it transitions into the the region,” James Bangira, Assistant Commissioner development phase. of Police and Regional Police Commander, Kidepo Region, said while speaking during one of the trainings.
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ur work in this area is majorly focused on boosting the capacities of Government of Uganda and other actors to achieve sustainable and inclusive development that is tailored to local needs and Otakes in to account the aspirations of both the present and future generations.
The objective is to ensure United Nations Development that development benefits all, Assistance Framework and that no one is left behind, (UNDAF 2016-2020). more especially those at risk of marginalization or exclusion on UNDP has also ensured 10 continued visibility, representation the basis of their gender, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability background papers and participation of Uganda on or poverty. We believe everyone on issues such as the international stage, at such has a voice and should be given international summits as the the opportunity to participate in democracy and political Global Climate Change Summit, decision-making and contribute governance, youth and as well as engagement with the to creating shared opportunities Foreign Affairs ministry to hold for prosperity. environment were consultations on the Post 2015 prepared to inform and SDG development agenda In 2014, our programme ahead of the General Assembly in interventions were critical in the NDP II process September later this year. providing technical expertise and Two SDG localization workshops financial resources to support the This included preparation of 10 were held in partnership with the national development planning background papers that informed Uganda National NGO Forum process, monitor aid effectiveness, the process as well as supporting (UNGOF) that brought together mobilise diaspora investment, the regional consultations to experts at the Local Government and equip youth and women ensure inclusiveness and greater level across the country to with vital entrepreneurship skills participation of all stakeholders. to create jobs, and to support discuss financing modalities of the development of the tourism Support was also in form the agenda. industry to stimulate growth of preparation of the and realise Government’s Vision macroeconomic framework, the 2040 that aims to transform the M&E framework, spatial plan; and country to a middle income the integration of SDGs. Although status over 30-years. the NDPII is not yet launched, the priorities set out in the draft Preparation of are currently being considered 2 the National in the formulation of the 2015/16 budget. SDG localisation Development Plan II workshops held at the The partnership created with UNDP provided financial government through the local government level and technical support to the NDPII preparation process preparation of the National to discuss financing was instrumental in securing Development Plan 2016-2020 technical support and political modalities. (NDPII) and also coordinated commitment from government support activities on behalf of the in the formulation of the next UN Country Team.
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Tracking utilization 2014 Poverty Status Report (PSR) which attracted high-level policy of development aid discussions during the ministerial Within the UN System, UNDP budget consultation, and takes leadership in supporting $900 informed resource allocation to government to monitor and Estimated diaspora priority areas such as production, measure the effectiveness of value addition, research and overseas development assistance remittances to Uganda innovation in the 2015/16 budget. (ODA) to Uganda. in 2014 up from 873m The report on Participatory and In 2014, the Ministry of Finance, in 2013. Qualitative Assessment of the Planning and Economic Social Assistance Grants for Development (MoFPED) rolled Empowerment (SAGE) scheme, out the computerized donor which was integrated in the 2014 database Public Investment national planning and budgetary PSR was prepared with UNDP Management Information System process. In addition, UNDP support, and is expected to (PIMIS) that tracks sources and provided financial support to the shape policy discussion on social utilitisation of ODA to Uganda. Aid Liaison Department (ALD) of protection in the country. The PIMIS, includes project the Ministry of Finance Planning Within the budget framework, details such as location, timeline, and Economic Development support entailed the production scope and resources and allows (MoFPED) to undertake learning/ of the Fiscal Strategy Paper and development partners to access exchange visits to other countries the National Budget Framework and update this information in order to observe and learn best Paper for the 2014/15 budget. online directly into the system. practices. Increasing diaspora To complement the PIMIS, A number of critical advocacy UNDP funded an evaluation and policy planning research investment study of ODA received over documents were prepared with Diaspora remittances in to twelve years (2002 to 2012) that UNDP support. These include the Uganda contribute significantly successfully reviewed a sample 2013 Millennium Development to the country’s foreign exchange of aid-funded projects with the Goals (MDG) report, which fed earnings, and are also one of lessons learned feeding in to the in to the 2014/15 budget and the the major sources of investment capital and consumption. In 2014, remittances were estimated at $900m, a reduction from $873m in 2013. With UNDP support, a National Diaspora Policy has been developed and discussed by Cabinet, with the final draft Foreign Policy report awaiting review. Following the installation of a new Uganda Diaspora Information Portal, along with a firewall and two webmasters, there is greater coordination and linkage between the diaspora and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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Launch of the Uganda Tourism 10 -year Master Plan.
The ministry is able to share information and to monitor and respond quickly to queries.
An updated compendium of business profiles and investment opportunities compiled by the To oversee the implementation Uganda Investment Authority Developing tourism of the Master Plan and secure with UNDP support, has created and agricultural value stakeholder buy-in to advocate for further incentives for the chains the allocation of more resources diaspora to invest back home to realize the potential of tourism, which has greatly boosted the The Government of Uganda, in technical support was provided country’s forex earnings. its National Development Plan 2010-2014, has identified tourism to establish the tourism sector UNDP has also facilitated the as a priority sector to promote working group, a mechanism ministry of Foreign Affairs to socio-economic development in that fuses policy, planning and participate in several international the country, foster the creation budget processes and has guided diaspora conventions, notably in of sustainable livelihoods, and the preparation of the 5 year the UK, and in the Nordic region generate greater dividends Tourism Sector Investment Plan to raise awareness on investment in foreign exchange earnings funded by the World Bank, as well opportunities in Uganda. while contributing towards the as the section on tourism in the protection of Uganda’s valuable National Development Plan II. In addition, a Primary Dealer and diverse cultural and natural Shared Gateway (PDSG) has Some 120 tourism medium and heritage. been set up by Bank of Uganda small enterprises were provided to facilitate the retail market In 2014, tourism emerged as with training to improve their including the diaspora to carry Uganda’s top foreign exchange planning, management, branding out online trading and investment earner, with USD 1,085 million in and marketing of their products in Government Securities, and revenues. The total contribution in order to make them more other opportunities back home. of the sector to GDP during the competitive. period was 7.9% (TSAPR, 2014, As a result, 33 business linkages p2). In 2013, UNDP provided were created between large support to the revision of the market actors and these national Tourism Policy which enterprises enabling them to was adopted by cabinet in 2014. gain access to more markets $ 1.085m Support was also provided for the and incomes (DIMATO 2014 preparation of a 10 year Tourism Progress report, p2). For example, Tourism’s contribution Development Master Plan aimed Bunyangabo Bee Keepers to GDP (7.9%) in 2014 at implementing the objectives Cooperatives’ (BBC) income and outcomes of the Tourism increased 4 fold to USD 1,000. Policy.
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Additionally, 169 persons (110 F, 59 M) are now fully engaged in self-employment programmes. With support from UNDP, 15,000 farmers (M:8720, F: 6280) are now able to access services from Village Savings and Loans Associations (Poverty Reduction for former IDPs End of project The farmers have gained access report, 2014 p.7) to clean planting materials at subsidized prices of USD 12 – About 6,000 households in 20 cents compared to USD 40 Northern Uganda have been 50 previously (DIMAT Project Annual supplied with agricultural inputs Progress Report, 2014 p.2, 11). and machinery to add value farmer MSMEs to increase output and quality In 2014, UNDP developed 5 resulting in higher incomes and engaged in rice, beans inclusive business models in better quality of life (Source: the agricultural sector and and cassava value Poverty Reduction for former operationalized one, this IDPs End of project report, 2014 chains in 33 districts was intended to increase the p.4). across Uganda. participation and inclusion of the poor into a company’s supply For the second year running, chain as employees, producers UNDP continued to coordinate and business owners and to recovery efforts in Northern In the area of agriculture, UNDP encourage the development of Uganda as Co-Chair of the strengthened the productivity and affordable goods and services Northern Uganda Donor Group competitive capacity of 50 farmer needed by the poor. (NUG) including mobilising budgetary support towards MSMEs (on average of 1,000 As part of UNDP’s support for the design of the third phase shareholders each) engaged the development of Northern of the Peace, Recovery and in the rice, beans and cassava Uganda, institutional capacity Development Plan (PRDP3) value chains in 33 districts across support was provided to 4 Uganda. As a result, 24 supply vocational technical institutions UNDP also coordinated the visit contracts with key market leaders to reach out to 1,500 (988M: of a number of development worth USD 1.6 million (5,600MT) 512F) rural youth and illiterate ex- partners to West Nile to raise have been signed. combatants resulting in increased awareness of the development UNDP also supported over 300 enrollment of girls at Abim needs and challenges of the smallholder farmers (65% women) Technical School in Karamoja sub region in light of the high refugee engaged in passion fruit farming region from 0 to 40 girls. influx in the area. to increase production and Some 180 youths (71F:109M) UNDP also maintains a productivity to 10MT per acre and from Northern Uganda who are coordinating and convening role have supplied 22 MT of passion already engaged in alternative in several other sectors including fruit at USD 66 cents/Kg, 100% employment schemes were chairing the Environment and higher than farm gate price, to trained and equipped with skills Natural Resources Development Kigali-based Inyange Industries to increase value addition and Partners Group. Limited. marketing of their products.
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Value Chains: Supporting inclusive markets in agriculture and trade to improve lives of farmers in Uganda
Grace Lawilu, looks at her rice crop in the background. She is a member of the Palaro Owalo Growers Cooperative which has benefitted from the UNDP’s value chains support in Northern Uganda.
GULU - Grace Lawilu wakes up at This is where Lawilu has lived for the last cockcrow every day and heads to the 35 years as a farmer, mother and wife. garden to plant seeds, dig out weeds or Over the years, the work and sweat of harvest. her hands have rewarded her with the satisfaction of fending for her family Vokogali, her home village, is 55 of 10; five daughters, three sons and a kilometres from Gulu town, in Northern husband who occasionally joins her in Uganda, and is close to Nimule on the the garden to harvest or spray the crops. border with South Sudan. Scattered Although she is majorly a rice grower, she homesteads made up of mud and also cultivates other crops to diversify her wattle huts, separated by green thickets income. On average, Grace earns about and walkways, make up this largely Ushs900, 000 from each harvest which undeveloped expanse of swampy she uses to take care of her family and grassland. for investment. She says, she has been
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able to construct two huts and a granary in her Trust, an agricultural development organisation homestead, and to provide an education for her working across East Africa, are jointly implementing children. the DIMAT project, which has been running since October 2011 and is ending in December, 2014. “Supporting my children in school is no mean feat as I am also the family’s bread winner. I plan to Anthony Mugambi, Programme Officer of Kilimo construct a better home for my family and this will Trust, and Team Leader for DIMAT for Northern be from my savings at the Village Savings and Loan Uganda, explains that in the region, Kilimo Trust scheme,” she explains. is working with two market off-takers or buyers, for beans and rice. The major one is the rice off- Grace is one of 253 members of Palaro Owalo taker for rice seeds, Equator Seeds Limited, which Growers Cooperative - two thirds of them women. is currently linked to nine farmer cooperatives in Since joining the Cooperative, Grace has found a Amuru, Gulu and Nwoya districts. new reason to work even harder. “I feel energised to work more because I can save with fellow “Before the project started, we carried out a value members and this money can help me start up a chain analysis of five commodities; rice, beans, personal project that can improve my family’s life,” cassava, honey and coffee. Later on, the Technical she says as she bends to uproot weeds from her Advisory Committee of DIMAT selected three rice garden. commodities-rice, beans and cassava, based on carefully selected criteria such as market potential, The cooperative’s Secretary General, Matthew inclusiveness of the poor and division of labor Abwoch, says that they have been able to sell their among other development partners. produce as a group which enables them to get a fairer price than if they were to trade as individual “Following the analysis, we did a stakeholders’ farmers. Initially, Abwoch says each farmer would mapping in which we interviewed exporter, sell a kilogram of maize at shs 300. The group producer organizations and other value chain actors however now sells each kilogram at Shs1, 000. to determine their roles and opportunities they offered along the value chain,” says Mugambi. He Abwoch and Lawilu attribute this success to adds, “The project also profiled potential market- a number of trainings in capacity building and off takers to gauge their capacities to do business resource mobilisation provided by the Development with the smallholder farmers and their readiness of Inclusive Markets in Agriculture and Trade to offer competitiveness market prices for their (DIMAT) project funded by the United Nations commodities.” Development Programme (UNDP). The US$ 2.6m project aims to Walter Ross Ojok, Equator Seeds’ address the challenges cited in Production Manager says that Uganda’s current agriculture “We are building they are dealing with more than Development Strategy Investment the capacities of 30,000 farmers in cooperatives Plan (DSIP), particularly increasing the farmers in the and groups. These farmers market access and value addition however, are given training before for products. To gain a footing areas of agronomy, they are allowed to buy the rice in international markets, small post-harvest seeds, which costs UgShs3, 000 producers often need support handling and group per kilogram. Through the capacity to boost the quality and building, farmers are taught good competitiveness of their goods. dynamics,” agricultural practices targeted at Enterprise Uganda, and Kilimo production, all the way up to post
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harvest handling practices to Lakor says that the production ensure that whatever they of rice in Gulu is now at about produce is of good quality and 5,000 hectares and projects it is guaranteed a premium price. to grow to between 10,000 and The farmers are also taught 15,000 hectares in the next two about group dynamics since years. He observes, “What is most of them are in groups and remaining is to strengthen the cooperatives. aspect of marketing which needs to be improved so that people Robert Oloya is a bookkeeper are able to realise the benefits at Alero Labara Cooperative from the good linkages and from Society which he says has this, we will be able to register a helped farmers sell in bulk big increase in production of rice, and get better prices for their maize and other cereals in the produce. He says, “We would district.” like farmers to earn the best price and better their living By ensuring that farmers obtain standards. Other markets offer good prices for their produce, a lesser price”. “We follow rural communities that would agronomic practices. We otherwise have been left on the have a field extension worker periphery of trade, are given who moves among the farmers to teach them a chance to prosper and to develop. Likewise, good farming practices. We then connect them the market off-taker, Equator Seeds Limited, is to Equator Seeds for good quality seeds to plant. assured of guaranteed supplies in terms of quality These are seeds that have been approved by and quantity. Most of all, even after the project agronomic workers too. These are improved and ends, Equator Seeds and the farmers can continue clean seeds which are of high quality and assured working for mutual win-win benefits. Mugambi says germination. We also train them on how to manage that a number of farmers have approached banks the crops, to the harvest time and up to the time and other financial institutions to access financing they stock”, Oloya adds. using the supply contracts that they have signed with Equator Seeds Ltd as guarantee that they have Jackson Lakor is the District Agricultural Officer market for their produce. (DA0) of Gulu and explains that Kilimo Trust and Equator Seeds have contributed to agricultural “We are building the capacities of the farmers in growth in the Northern region. He observes that the areas of agronomy, post-harvest handling and within a short time the district has seen a lot of group dynamics,” adds John Okello, Managing improvement especially in the capacity of the Director and founder of Equator Seeds. The farmers’ associations and farmer cooperatives. company, which was started with a start-up capital of Ugshs300, 000 is now worth UgShs1.5bn. “Farmers have been trained and they are able to do a lot of things on their own. We have seen “With my savings I have been able to buy four improved production especially for rice within a oxen, each at Shs800, 000. I bought them to ease short time. We are seeing an impact which we think my farm work. They are efficient at ploughing. The can be sustained with support perhaps from the work of an ox in two days can be done by one man district and other partners,” he explains. for a month,” 52-year-old Abwoch explains.
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NDP’s programme aims to build resilience, lower the risk of vulnerability to natural disasters and protect communities against all shocks. Our interventions over the past year have augmented efforts by government and other partners to support the country to weather crisis Uand other natural catastrophes and return to sustainable development.
With respect to disaster risk Climate proofing reduction, UNDP supported development the establishment of a 24- hour National Emergency and In order to strengthen Coordination Centre (NECOC), environmental management, under the leadership of the UNDP supported government Office of the Prime Minister. to revise and update the National Environment The Centre was informed Management Policy to integrate by hazard and vulnerability emerging issues on climate assessments conducted for Mt. change, disaster risk reduction, Elgon, Rwenzori, Teso, Lango, electronic waste management Acholi, West Nile and Karamoja and oil and gas. regions and will benefit from the UNDP/GEF supported A number of strategies were initiative on strengthening prepared including a Biomass climate information and early Energy Strategy, an E- Waste warning systems. Management Strategy, and a National State of Environment There is also improved Report. coordination of the Disaster Risk Reduction National A baseline data collection platform, whose membership tool and pilot data analysis has increased from 20 to 130. for the Environment natural Additionally, the National Policy resources Sector Performance for Disaster Preparedness Monitoring Framework was and Management, and the finalized as part of the 15 disaster and climate proofing major undertakings for the of Uganda’s Building Control ENR sector and Environment Regulations have been finalized Impact Assessment guidelines as is the mainstreaming of for energy, mining, fisheries and drought resilience following agriculture produced (ENR SPR, the approval of the Country 2014: 27, 124). Programming Paper. To ensure that issues of UNDP has also supported the environment, natural resources establishment of a knowledge and climate change are fully 20-130 management platform and intergrated in the national digital library to increase development planning Increase of awareness of resilience and framework, UNDP supported membership to the DRM. preparation of both ENR and Climate Change issues paper National DRR platform.
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for the NDP II. In addition, In addition, 12 Climate change UNDP supported projects that adaptation action plans promoted sustainable land were developed together use and soil management, 8 with communities based restoration of degraded forestry on the Vulnerability Impact and wetland ecosystems, Nationally Appropriate Assessment report produced in climate monitoring, integrating Mitigation Actions 2013. environmental sustainability and climate change policy – all (NAMA)’ concepts In regard to energy, an action of which were integrated in the developed and agenda for the UN Sustainable NDP II(NDP Issues Papers and Energy for All (SE4All) was Draft NDP 2: 139-140). uploaded to the developed in collaboration with the EU delegation in Kampala As part of UNDP’s support to UNFCCC registry. as part of UNDP technical Government to embrace a low and functional support to emission development strategy, a contracting party. The NAMA integrate energy planning and eight Nationally Appropriate concepts developed have participation in the post-2015 Mitigation Actions (NAMA)’ enabled government to attract global dialogues (Energy and concepts were developed financial resources towards Mineral Development Sector and uploaded to the UNFCCC climate change mitigation from Performance Report, 2014:p registry (http://www4.unfccc.int/ GEF6 STAR and EU/Germany. 14-15). sites/nama); and internationally recognized during COP 20 in UNDP and partners also Lima. established a payment for ecosystem services fund as part In addition, a Greenhouse of promoting an Ecosystem 12 Gas (GHG) Inventory system Based Adaptation approach Climate change was institutionalized to to climate change in Mt Elgon increase effectiveness and (Water and Environment Sector adaptation action plans efficiency in preparing national Performance Report, 2014). developed together communications to UNFCCC as with communities.
Hon. Edward Ssekandi, the Vice President and Hon. Musa Ecweru, the State Minister for Relief, Disaster Preparedness and Refugees being shown how the NECOC Centre works.
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Water harvesting tanks are helping households in Isingiro district to keep the long dry spells away
Janet Nyakato, standing beside her tank while her grandchildren look on. The water tank was provided with support from the UNDP’s Strengthening Sustainable Environment and Natural Resource Management, Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation in Uganda project.
ISINGIRO- As the early afternoon make good use of the long rainy season sun sears through the small village of to collect water that will carry them Katembe parish, Isingiro district in South through the dry seasons without having Western Uganda, 50-year old Jennifer to make long journeys to the nearby Nyakato’s new water tank stands out water sources which are usually six to in her compound like an oasis in a hot seven kilometers away. desert. “This tank has saved me and the children The 7000-litre tank that was built a lot of time which we were using to go for her in November 2014, has been to the well,” Nyakato, a widow with five providing her family with water for the children explains. She adds that now the last four months.Built with concrete, children can go early to school, while she the tank is a rain harvesting contraption uses that time to till her garden. which enables families like Nyakato’s to
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The water tanks were provided harvesting, tree growing and by the United Nations While most women sanitation. The group has also Development Programme do not openly managed to build an additional three (UNDP) as part of a climate tanks for other members, using its change adaptation intervention discuss these own savings. in Isingiro district and other parts matters with their Preference is given to group of Uganda. husbands, many members who are considered The MJK Tree Nursery appreciate having vulnerable or marginalized and who Community Demonstration would otherwise have to walk for Project is leading these efforts in water close to their many kilometers to collect water for Isingiro district. The five-year old homes as they do their homes. The selected individuals community based organization not have to worry must also meet basic sanitation has 250 members in the district, standards in their homes such as 92 of them in Katembe parish, about their safety having a latrine. Kabingo sub-county. or that of their “The group members rallied together The group received a small grant daughters’. and built Nyakato a latrine since she of 21.3million Uganda shillings did not have one in her home so that through UNDP’s Strengthening she would be eligible to receive the Sustainable Environment and Natural Resource water tank,” Kajumbe reveals. management, Climate Change Adaptation and Rose Karuhanga, the water and sanitation officer Mitigation in Uganda (SENRCAM) project. The for MJK adds that having water close to home is grants are intended to help community groups to very important for many women as many of them reach out to people who are most vulnerable to have been raped as they go to fetch water in the the consequences of climate change. night. The project also focuses on supporting the “When we visited the health centres, they told efforts and capacities of local governments, Civil us that 15 out of every 20 women and girls that Society Organisations (CSOs) and communities to seek treatment are being treated for sexually sustainably manage and utilise natural resources, transmitted diseases which many revealed to have and integrate climate change adaptation and picked up from men other than their husbands mitigation in their activities so as to build climate who waylay them on the way to the well,” change resilient societies. Karuhanga says. The project is implemented by World Wide Fund While most women do not openly discuss these for Nature Uganda (WWF) in collaboration with matters with their husbands, many appreciate various ministries, local governments and CSOs. having water close to their homes as they do not “We built seven tanks in seven homes. For six have to worry about their safety or that of their of those homes, the group members are women daughters’. while the seventh is a man,” Deuson Kajumbe, Members of MJK Tree Nursery Community MJK’s project coordinator says. Demonstration Project have planted well over He explains that the beneficiaries of the tanks 20,000 tree seedlings in their homes, and along were selected by members of the group after a 2km stretch that acts as a buffer zone for the being sensitized on the importance of rainwater Nakivale River.
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s part of efforts to responsive conflict prevention As part of efforts to promote achieve MDG 3, and management. This led to climate and disaster resilience, UNDP in Uganda their active engagement in UNDP also promoted the use ensures to integrate community peace building of renewable energy saving Agender equality and the initiatives that saw the peaceful technologies. Technologies empowerment of women into resolution of several land and such as biogas and improved all its work, partnering with Sexual and Gender Based cook stoves reduced the the Government and other UN Violence related cases in 2014. amount of firewood collected agencies to ensure that both by women, and the need to women and men, boys and girls Gender inequality and its travel long distances to collect have equal opportunities. multiple dimensions are it. Use of these technologies considered key drivers of the also significantly reduced the In 2014, the key focus for HIV epidemic among women smoke in the kitchen, resulting UNDP was to promote gender and girls. Despite this, it has in better health conditions parity at both the national and never been mainstreamed into for the women, children and local levels by integrating it Uganda’s National HIV strategic other family members. These into development planning. plans. To include it, UNDP in technologies not only protect One such example nationally, collaboration with UN Women the environment but also was the national strategy to and UNAIDS supported the reduce the exposure of women mainstream gender in the Uganda AIDs Commission and children to abuse. Environment and Natural to engender the National Resources (ENR) sector. HIV Strategic Plan with the At the organisational level, The Tourism sector whose development of the gender and the UNDP Uganda Country interventions were gender blind, HIV score card that provided office emerged second best now has a Master plan which information for mainstreaming in UNDP’s global pilot Gender ensures that interventions gender in the national HIV Equality Seal Certification aimed at developing tourism are Strategic Plan 2015/2016- process that recognises gender inclusive and responsive. 2019/2020. Country Office performance in ensuring gender At a local level, UNDP has been Gender and HIV mainstreaming mainstreaming in all their supporting Northern Uganda, will also be included in local programmes. In preparation a region that has made major government planning and for this exercise, a gender strides in recovering from a two budgeting processes after focal team was constituted decade insurgency, to promote UNDP supported the Ministry headed by the UNDP Country gender equality. Through its of Local government to carry Director, Ms Almaz Gebru, Northern Uganda Programme, out training for political and which then successfully UNDP Uganda provided technical leaders on regular took up responsibilities of capacity support to vocational monitoring of HIV/AIDS and mainstreaming gender in the institutions that reach rural gender mainstreaming in entire country office program youth and ex-combatants their service delivery. This and operational areas. leading to increased enrolment will hopefully provide gender of girls in technical schools in disaggregated data and This exercise has assisted in the region. In Abim district, solutions to the HIV/AIDs identifying areas that need Karamoja region for example, scourge in the country. improvement and have led to 40 girls were enrolled in Abim the engendering of the entire Technical School, previously no country office’s programmes. girls were getting vocational education in the region. In 2015, the team will build 40 on this work to complete Local leadership in Northern girls enrolled in Abim the definitive Gender Seal Uganda was also equipped with Technical School. Certification process. knowledge and skills for gender
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Equipping girls with vocational skills to increase their chances of employment
Julian Aila, an 18-year old from Morulem Village in Abim district in Karamoja is studying catering at Abim Technical College
ABIM - Julian Aila is a determined and “My mother was the one paying my hardworking 18-year old from Morulem school fees and when she passed on Village in Abim district in Karamoja. early last year, my father could not raise Dropping out of school just before fees for me to complete primary seven. sitting her Primary Leaving Examinations I was left with no choice but to sit home (PLE) did not stop her from dreaming of and look after my father,” Julian narrates. becoming a teacher one day. Julian’s case is not different from that The last born in a family, Julian missed of many youth in this region. Majority her PLE because her father could not of parents in Karamoja, located in raise the registration fee of UGX 20,000 the semi-arid north eastern region of ($8) required of each pupil by the Uganda Uganda, still see education as something National Examination Board (UNEB). that has no tangible benefits and prefer that their children stay home and help
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with the house chores. Girls are “I am so grateful for this great particularly considered ready “I am so grateful for opportunity. I thought I would for marriage when they reach never get another chance to go puberty. this great opportunity. back to school or even be able to train in something that can It’s for this reason that I thought I would never make my life better. With this United Nations Development get another chance to training, I will be able to work Programme (UNDP) is partnering go back to school or and save some money to go back with Abim Technical Institute to school, “Julian says, and adds as part of its Northern Uganda even be able to train that her goal is to save money to Local Development and in something that can start up her own restaurant and Social Cohesion programme make my life better. then go back to school someday to support school drop outs to complete her studies and acquire marketable vocational With this training, I will become a teacher. skills training in courses such as be able to work and tailoring, welding, Motorcycle save some money to The programme which takes repair catering and hair dressing. three months to complete, Julian is one of the programme’s go back to school.” started in October and ends in pioneers. December 2014. It has attracted 60 youth from Abim district, She registered for the catering programme as 31 of whom are girls and 29 boys. As part of the soon as she heard about it from the local council programme, UNDP provided the technical institute chairman during one of the community meetings, with 23 tailoring machines, 2 locking machines and something she would never have done on her own. 2 weaving and knitting machines for the tailoring class.
The institute also received several motor vehicle technical machines, welding and metal fabrication equipment including cylinders, a photocopier machine, and a generator which powers the institute including workshops, administration office and the dormitories of the students.
This equipment has been helpful in giving the students practical training in their respective courses. The Institute is also committed to mentor the trained youth and give them support after graduating from the programme. The Abim technical institute is a government founded institute, set up in 2011 to spur development in the Karamoja region through provision of technical education to youth.
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N Volunteers are an important and integral part of UNDP’s day-to-day programmes and operations. They have been critical catalysts in advancing progress towards the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), as many of the serving Volunteers are in the unique position to Upositively influence the way people relate to their communities.
As we are reaching the target Development, Democratic governance, crisis prevention date of the MDGs this year, Governance, Climate and and recovery, reproductive UNVs will be critical actors Disaster Resilience – and has health and population, HIV/ within the UN System in contributed greatly to fulfilling AIDS, protection affairs, human Uganda to create new spaces UNDP’s mandate of eliminating rights, gender mainstreaming, of interaction between poverty, exclusion and youth and community services. governments and constituents. inequality. In 2014, UNDP as co-chair More importantly, they are The UNV programme in of the UN in Uganda Youth helping to fill a critical skills gap Uganda, which is traditionally Engagement and Employment by providing vital support to administered by UNDP on (YEE) convergence group, government and other partners behalf of the UN, has continued supported the formulation of to be able to successfully to expand every year. Currently, a proposal for a UN Graduate implement development there are over 50 qualified men Volunteer Programme for programmes and interventions and women serving in Uganda Uganda, which is still awaiting in order to achieve sustainable as UN volunteers, 53% of them approval from the Ministry development in the country. Nationals. of Gender, Labour and Social Development. The programme, UN Volunteers work on About 44 Ugandan Nationals conceived as a complementary the ground, as well as are also serving as volunteers to the larger UN Volunteers their technical expertise in other countries in fields as programme, is aimed at in policy advice, has been diverse as agriculture, health enabling more youth obtain instrumental in the success and nutrition, education, mentoring and professional of UNDP’s downstream and vocational training, ICT, on-the-job experience, through upstream work across three poverty reduction, energy and volunteerism. programme areas – Sustainable environmental conservation, Annual Report 2014
For a Life in Dignity for all: The Post 2015 Process in Uganda
UNV Youth Volunteers have been key in coordinating and following up on the UN Post 2015 Consultation process led by the UNDP Resident Representative & UN Resident Coordinator’s office in Uganda.
In 2015, the Millennium Development This bottom up and inclusive process Goals (MDGs) are officially coming established the foundation for a truly to an end. Learning from the great transformative global development contribution of the MDGs to the global agenda incorporates what people all over effort in reducing hunger and poverty, the world want, leaving no one behind. the UN Secretary General has initiated As citizens of many other countries, an unprecedented bottom up process to Ugandans are particularly concerned develop an inclusive and people centered with quality of services, especially health development agenda ‘beyond 2015’. and education, good governance and corruption, environmental protection, This Post 2015 process can roughly be adequate representation of vulnerable described in 3 ‘rounds’: From 2012-2013, groups, women and children, and youth Uganda participated in the ‘first round unemployment. of consultations’ together with 87 other countries. As a global initiative by the UN Here in Uganda, the ‘first round Secretary General, these consultations of consultations’ on the Post 2015 involved millions of people around he agenda also fed into Uganda’s position world. on sustainable development at the Rio+20 Summit and the development of Uganda’s long-term development Plan or Vision 2040.
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After establishing ‘what’ matters A key highlight in 2014 was the most to people all around National Consultative Forum the world, a second round of A highlight in on the Post 2015 Development consultations was launched in Uganda’s Post 2015 Agenda, which the Ministry of selected countries in April 2014, to Foreign Affairs held in Cooperation discuss ‘how’ they can be achieved. Process was the with the UN in Uganda on August Although Uganda did not officially regional localization 8th 2014. participate in this second round of The Forum took place shortly consultations, it became a ‘self- Workshops held before the inauguration Uganda’s starter’. Why is that? in cooperation with Minister for Foreign Affairs, Hon. Uganda has been given the the Uganda National Sam Kutesa, as President of the prestigious responsibility to preside NGO Forum. 69th Session of the General over the 69th Session of the UN Assembly. General Assembly. This session The event provided a space for which will be chaired by H.E. Sam Government Ministers, Members of Parliament, Kutesa, will discuss and agree on the form of the the Private Sector, Civil Society and Development new post 2015 SDGs. The global attention from Partners to exchange relevant experiences this process is likely to generate a lot of interest from the MDG process and to discuss Uganda’s within government, parliament and civil society. priorities for the inter-governmental negotiations Secondly, 2014 was the year of NDPII, Uganda’s on the new agenda. second National Development Plan. Learning from Together with the Guest Speaker H.E. Ms. Amina the lack of integration of the MDGs into national Mohammed, Special Advisor on the Post 2015 planning, the National Planning Authority (NPA) Agenda to the UNSG, stakeholders, including expressed their interest early on to consider the volunteers, exchanged their views on how best we Post 2015 agenda in the NDPII design. can implement a truly people centred development Through the UNs advocacy and technical support, agenda through NDPII and in collaboration with the National Planning Authority committed to Civil Society actors. becoming one of the first countries in the world to Another highlight in Uganda’s Post 2015 Process align Uganda’s five-year development plan with the were the regional localization Workshops held SDGs. in cooperation with the Uganda National NGO Thirdly, people in Uganda have expressed their Forum. They served as a starting point to discuss demand to participate in the national development the practicalities of implementing and financing the process and the momentum to localize the new agenda on local government level. proposed Sustainable Development Goals is With the beginning of 2015, the third and last steadily growing. ‘round’ in the Post 2015 process has begun. After Through the Post 2015 process, all people in the UN Secretary General published his Synthesis Uganda now have an official mandate to engage in Report in December 2014, which includes the localization process of the new Agenda and to everything we’ve learned from the first and second enable its successful implementation on a national rounds of consultations, UN Member States begin and local level. to negotiate the specific terms of the new agenda.
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A glance at the 2014 Country Office Resources
Summary of Delivery Against Budget for 2014
Thematic Area Outcome area Budget (USD) Expenditure (USD) DEMOCRATIC Accountable service 4,486,238.24 4,396,935.19 GOVERNANCE Delivery CRISIS PREVENTION Access to Justice & 3,179,803.20 3,071,937.55 AND RECOVERY Community Security GROWTH AND Sustained productivity 3,745,212.98 3,862,698.04 POVERTY REDUCTION & competitiveness Sustainable environment and ENERGY AND natural resources management 3,817,738.05 3,660,936.37 ENVIRONMENT (ENRM) Total 15,228,992.47 14,992,507.15
Supporting Partners / Donors
• Government of Japan • Government of Denmark • European Union • Government of Norway • Government of Sweden • Department of International Development - United Kingdom • Ireland • UNDP Core (TRAC & TRAC 3) • UNDP Multi-Donor Trust Fund • UNDP Global Environment Fund (GEF) • Bureau for Crisis Prevention & Recovery (BCPR) - Crisis Prevention & Recovery (CPR) Thematic Trust Fund • UN Trust Fund for Human Security • UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS) Enhanced Integrated Framework Thematic Trust Fund • UN Peace Building Fund • UN Environmental Programme (UNEP) • COMESA • CIDA-(Canadian Internations Development Agency)
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Uganda’s MDG progress at a Glance
Goal 1: Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger Target 1.A: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people whose ACHIEVED income is less than one dollar a day Target 1.B: Achieve full and productive employment and decent work for all, NO TARGET including women and young people Target 1.C: Halve, between 1990 and 2015, the proportion of people who suffer ON TRACK from hunger Goal 2: Achieve universal primary education Target 2.A: Ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be SLOW able to complete a full course of primary schooling Goal 3: Promote gender equality and empower women Target 3.A: Eliminate gender disparity in primary and secondary education, pref- ON TRACK erably by 2005, and in all levels of education no later than 2015 REVERSAL 1 Goal 4: Reduce child mortality Target 4.A: Reduce by two thirds, between 1990 and 2015, the under-five mortal- NO TARGET 2 ON TRACK ity rate Goal 5: Improve maternal health Target 5.A: Reduce by three quarters, between 1990 and 2015, the maternal STAGNANT mortality ratio Target 5.B: Achieve, by 2015, universal access to reproductive health SLOW Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases Target 6.A: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the spread of HIV/AIDS REVERSAL Target 6.B: Achieve, by 2010, universal access to treatment for HIV/AIDS for all ON TRACK those who need it Target 6.C: Have halted by 2015 and begun to reverse the incidence of malaria ON TRACK and other major diseases Goal 7: Ensure environmental sustainability Target 7.A: Integrate the principles of sustainable development into country poli- SLOW cies and programmes and reverse the loss of environmental resources ON TRACK / ACHEIVED 10 Target 7.B: Reduce biodiversity loss, achieving, by 2010, a significant reduction in SLOW the rate of loss SLOW / STAGNANT 6 Target 7.C: Halve, by 2015, the proportion of people without sustainable access to ON TRACK safe drinking water and basic sanitation Target 7.D: By 2020, to have achieved a significant improvement in the lives of at NO TARGET least 100 million slum dwellers Goal 8: Develop a global partnership for development Target 8.B: Address the special needs of the least developed countries SLOW Target 8.D: Deal comprehensively with the debt problems of developing countries through national and international measures in order to make debt sustainable in ACHIEVED the long term Target 8.E: In cooperation with pharmaceutical companies, provide access to ON TRACK affordable essential drugs in developing countries Target 8.F: In cooperation with the private sector, make available the benefits of ON TRACK new technologies, especially information and communications
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Hon. Kamanda Bataringaya, State Minister for Labour and Industrial relations and Ms. Ahunna Eziakonwa- Onochie, the UN Resident Coordinator and UNDP Resident Dr. Kisamba Mugerwa, the Chairman of the Representative hand over a dummy cheque to Jude National Planning Authority and Ms. Ahunna Mukundane during the UN Youth Innovators Hangout held Eziakonwa-Onochie, the UNDP Resident in October 2014. This was part of UN’s Youth Empowerment Representative/ UN Resident Coordinator and Engagement’s efforts to showcase Youth Innovation in launching the 2014 Global Human Development Uganda. Report in Kampala. The report focused on sustaining human progress through reducing vulnerabilities and building resilience.
UNDP Country Director, Ms. Almaz Gebru Ms. Almaz Gebru, UNDP Country Director officially receives an award from the Vice President, launching the first Uganda AIDS Accountability Scorecard Hon. Edward Ssekandi. The award was given to in April 2014. Looking on are officials from Mildmay, UNDP and various development partners for Uganda AIDS Commission and the Uganda Network of AIDS their contribution to decentralisation and local Service Organisations (UNASO). government development. Ms. Almaz Gebru, Country Director UNDP (right) and Ms. Sarah Ssewanyana, Hon. Ruhakana Rugunda, the Prime Minister launches Executive Director EPRC (left) sign the the Uganda Poverty Status Report 2014. With him are Ms. Memorandum of Understanding on the Ahunna Eziakonwa-Onochie, Ms. Maria Kiwanuka, former Northern Uganda Human Development Minister of Finance and Keith Muhakanizi, the Permanent Report which will be published in 2015. Secretary, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development.
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