GOVERNMENT PROGRAMMES IN ACHOLI REGION SUMMARY OF THE BRIEF Guide of the brief 1. Introduction :…………………………………………………….page 2 2. Factories :…………………………………………………………. page 3 3. Payments to Veterans :…………………………………………page 4 4. Cattle Compensation:…………………………………………..Page 5 5. Government Releases :………………………………………… page5 6. Youth Funds :……………………………………………………..page 7 7. Women Fund:…………………………………………………… page 8 8. Sage Funds :……………………………………………………….page 8 9. Road Fund (Murrum Roads) :…………………………………page 9 10. NAADS/OWC :……………….………………………………….page 10 11. Education: ………………………………………………………. page13 12. Health :…………………………………………….………………page 20 13. Water: ……………………………………..………………………page 25 14. Infrastructure, Roads:………………….……………………. page 31 15. Energy extending power to sub counties:……………… page 35 16. Projects under OPM :………………………………………….page 37 1 Introduction Acholi sub-region is comprised of 08 districts, namely; Agago, Amuru, Gulu, Kitgum, Lamwo, Nwoya, Omoro and Pader districts. It has a total population of 1,580,300 people as per the UBOS figures of 2014 Population Census. It has 01 City, 01 Municipality, 18 Constituencies with 77 Sub- counties and 364 Parishes and 2,845 villages. THE FOLLOWING FUNDS ARE IN THE MANIFESTO FOR JOB AND WEALTH CREATION 1. Capitalization of UDB with shillings one trillion in 2020/21 financial year. Before this, UDB had been capitalized by close to Shs. 400 billion. This fund is supposed to address the high cost of money the commercial banks charge. This fund will be accessed by those investing in value addition, agriculture production, tourism and education infrastructure at an interest not more than 12%. 2. Capitalization of UDC. This financial year, UDC was capitalized with Sh. 130 billion. UDC will invest in agro processing factories in every sub region in Uganda to process what is locally produced. 3. In Northern Uganda after NUSAF 1, II and III and PRDP I, II and III which focused mainly of social infrastructure, we are going to introduce PRDP 4 which will be focusing on household incomes on top of OWC. With the above funds, Ugandans in different economic activities will be reached. We will also promote serviced industrial parks in various regions of Uganda to promote job creation. Other areas of interest are: 1. Land Fragmentation. 2 2. School charges that are leading children from poor families to drop out of school. A proposal to have village assemblies to discuss this matter. 3. NRM is studying the issue of school feeding. 4. Through the use of technology, we are going to eliminate the stealing of drugs in government health centers. The same technology which we have started rolling out in Regional Referral Hospitals will also eliminate absenteeism of health workers. It will be rolled out to all health centres. FACTORIES 1. Government through UDC bought shares in Atiak Sugar Factory which has already started producing sugar. Furthermore, through Naads/OWC, government has helped about 7,000 households in Amuru and Lamwo plant sugarcane as out-growers. Under this program, government carried out bush clearing, ploughing, planting and weeding for the out-growers who are organized in farmer Cooperatives. The out-growers will be earning income by selling sugarcane to the factory. 2. The NRM Government through UDC is going to work with the Arch Diocese of Gulu to establish Starch Factory in Gulu. OWC has been working with the Catholic Church to mobilise farmers in Acholi to plant cassava. The factory will offer a market to the cassava farmers. UDC is carrying out a feasibility study which is expected to be completed in January 2021. Sh 14 billion has been put aside to start off the project. 3. Furthermore, the NRM through UDC is going to buy shares in Bukona Agro factory, located in Nwoya, which is processing ethanol from cassava. The ethanol produced will be for cooking as opposed to the one for spirits. UDC is going to invest Shs 11 billion to buy shares and another Sh 12 billion as working capital. The ministry of finance has already released the money to UDC. This too will create a market for the cassava farmers in Acholi. 4. Naads/OWC is in the process of procurement of a fruit processing 3 plant to be located in Nwoya. Government is working with a private entity “Delight” in this venture. After installation of the equipment, UDC will bring in working capital. The above four factories will bring wealth to the farmers in Acholi who are planting sugarcane, cassava and fruits. On cassava each of the two factories above needs about 8,000 acres of cassava to supply it. It’s estimated that at the moment 10,000 acres are under cassava plantation in Acholi. Out of these, about 7,000 acres is cassava planted through the Church mobilization. It’s estimated that from one acre of cassava the yield is 2 tons annually. The factories will be buying a ton at Sh 2.5 million, hence, from one acre, a farmer can earn Sh 5 million. PAYMENTS TO VETERANS 1. Since 2010, government through the Ministry of Defence and Veteran Affairs has been handling payments of Veterans especially their pension and gratuity arrears which accumulated due the state of economy at the time of the first discharge of retirees in 1992. 2. Since 2015, MODVA took a decision to retire its personnel after identification of funds and because of this policy there is no backlog of pensions and gratuity since then. The outcry remains with those whose retirement was before 2014. 3. The countrywide backlog payments has been reduced from 154,537 retirees to 68,629 retirees due for payment. The amounts due keep accumulating until day of payment. 4. This financial year 2020/21, a total of 11,000 retirees will be paid from the 90Bn shillings already released to the Ministry of Defence. During FY 2021/22, another 90 Bn shillings will be released to pay the remaining 14,033 claimants. The 43,000 claimants who have not turned up for document verification will also be handled if they turn up to claim. Verification of documents is necessary due to the time lag between discharge date and today to avoid fraud. 4 CATTLE COMPENSATION Your Excellency, while in Lango last week, you promised that government was going to allocate Sh 50 billion each to Acholi, Lango and Teso for cattle compensation. Government Releases APPROVED BUDGETS FOR FY 2020/21 Approved Approved Total Approved Budget- Budget- Budget Local Governments Recurrent Development Gulu District 27,113,874 ,000 2,978,140,000 30,092,014,000 Kitgum District 24,988,354 ,000 3,810,829,000 28,799,182,000 Pader District 21,830,016,000 4,079,011,000 25,909,027,000 Amuru District 17,774,818,000 3,729,001,000 31,503,819,000 Agago District 22,727,734,000 5,812,938,000 28,540,671,000 Lamwo District 15,866,821,000 3,819,355,000 19,686,176,000 Nwoya District 15,245,983,000 4,942,429,000 20,188,412,000 Omoro District 18,635,553,000 5,532,981,000 24,651,618,000 Gulu Municipal 19,418,176,000 41,035,328,000 60,453,505,000 Kitgum Municipal 7,008,518,000 14,503,832,000 21,512,350,000 5 Government releases for the last four Financial years 2016/2017 – 2019/2020 FY FY District 2016/2017 FY 2017/2018 FY 2018/2019 2019/2020 Gulu 19,505,590,000 18,967,102,779 24,881,053,555 22,885,247,720 Kitgum 20,311,167,000 21,390,597,823 25,152,305,568 24,455,061,982 Pader 17,235,729,000 20,497,729,016 21,863,207,115 22,755,710,498 Amuru 15,260,597,000 15,104,955,680 18,615,758,059 18,780,854,005 Lamwo 11,871,902,000 12,417,625,044 15,204,557,679 16,444,969,458 Nwoya 10,587,562,000 11,563,147,885 15,327,273,082 17,592,286,612 Agago 18,610,071,000 18,870,603,057 21,940,077,556 25,105,394,537 Omoro 15,759,068,000 16,495,709,439 20,803,557,615 22,614,240,594 Gulu MC 10,456,384,000 11,856,996,471 13,125,627,439 13,611,987,477 Kitgum MC 5,946,974,000 6,133,314,656 7,080,184,004 6,109,292,908 145,545,044,000 153,297,781,850 183,993,701,672 190,354,945,791 Government released a total of UGX. 673,191,473,313 in the last four Financial years 2016/2017 – 2019/2020 in Acholi Sub Region. 6 YOUTH FUNDS 4. Youth Livelihood Program and the Women Fund. So far under YLP, Shs.160 billion has been given out to various Youth Groups and Shs.106 billion has been given out in the last four years. 5. Youth Industrial Hubs that are being set up by State House in every sub region. These will train the youth in various skills like carpentry, welding, mechanics, shoe making, tailoring, knitting, weaving etc. 6. Emyooga Fund: under this fund, 18 different activities are already being organized in every parish. Each myooga will get Shs. 30 million at constituency level while the one of the elected leaders will get Shs. 50 million. In total, each constituency will get Shs. 560 million. For Kampala and Wakiso, we have provided Shs.50 billion to start with this financial year. Youth Livelihood Project Funds for the past four years in Acholi Sub-region Projects financed in Acholi Sub-region TOTAL BENEFICIARIES DISTRICT NO. AMOUNT MALE FEMALE TOTAL PROJECTS DISBURSED AGAGO 126 1,060,342,500 922 740 1,662 AMURU 141 1,100,620,900 1,053 843 1,896 GULU 87 687,415,300 641 474 1,115 GULU MC 66 526,738,000 455 407 862 KITGUM 222 1,388,055,300 1,674 1,299 2,973 KITGUM 450,846,000 454 420 874 MC 70 LAMWO 199 1,475,371,000 1,474 1,251 2,725 NWOYA 150 1,057,363,400 1,025 927 1,952 OMORO 124 909,296,000 837 734 1,571 PADER 129 952,397,900 898 834 1,732 NATIONAL 1,314 9,608,446,300 9,433 7,929 17,362 7 WOMEN FUND Projects financed by District in Acholi Sub Region AMOUNT NO.