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Today, an estimated 25% still live in extreme poverty but Uganda is on course to achieve its national target of reducing this number to 10% by 2017 [7] Despite this progress, significant inequality still exists. Progress in reducing poverty has been very slow in the Northern and Eastern parts of Uganda and a 2016 poverty assessment report by ...
The Parish Development Model (PDM) is a government-led initiative in Uganda aimed at transforming subsistence households into the money economy and lifting 17.5 million Ugandans in 3.5 million households out of poverty. The PDM initiative was launched on 26 February 2022 in the eastern district of Kibuku. by the President of Uganda Yoweri ...
As of 2017, Uganda had about 130,000 kilometres (80,778 mi) of roads, with approximately 5,300 kilometres (3,293 mi) (4 percent) paved. [31] Most paved roads radiate from Kampala, the country's capital and largest city. [32] As of 2017, Uganda's metre gauge railway network measures about 1,250 kilometres (777 mi) in length.
Setting these priorities helped improve Uganda's credentials with international aid organizations and donor countries of the West, but in the first three years of Museveni's rule, coffee production remained the only economic activity inside Uganda to display consistent growth and resilience. [2] In 1987 GDP rose 4.5 percent above the 1986 level ...
According to CIA World Fact Book 2004, more than 80 percent of its population is rural and 35% of the people lives below poverty line. [9] The United Nations characterised the current condition of Uganda with its unstable government and struggling people as "the world’s worst humanitarian crisis." [10] Community school at Kolir (Bukedea District)
The water and sanitation sector was recognised as a key area under the 2004 Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP), Uganda's main strategy paper to fight poverty. [ 180 ] : 182–188 According to a 2006 published report, a comprehensive expenditure framework had been introduced to co-ordinate financial support by external donors, the national ...
The World Bank Group is the globe’s most prestigious development lender, bankrolling hundreds of government projects each year in pursuit of its high-minded mission: to combat the scourge of poverty by backing new transit systems, power plants, dams and other projects it believes will help boost the fortunes of poor people. Read more »
World Vision Uganda is a Christian Non-Governmental Organization and a branch of World Vision International committed to addressing poverty through relief, development, and advocacy programs. It was started in Uganda in 1986 to offer relief, and resettlement packages as well as help reconstruct the districts in central Uganda affected by the ...