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BUSOGA POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMME

BUSOGA POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMME. CAUSES OF POVERTY. Leadership deficiency. LAND ISSUES. Poor Leadership (Political Messages) Lack of Cultural Leadership Interparty Conflicts Technical Staff Poor Communication. Landlessness Land Fragmentation Land Grabbing

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BUSOGA POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMME

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  1. BUSOGA POVERTY ALLEVIATION PROGRAMME

  2. CAUSES OF POVERTY Leadership deficiency LAND ISSUES • Poor Leadership (Political Messages) • Lack of Cultural Leadership • Interparty Conflicts • Technical Staff • Poor Communication • Landlessness • Land Fragmentation • Land Grabbing • Land Tenure (men vs women)

  3. POORINVESTMENT Lack of market • Sugar Cane • Freight of Investors • Insecurity • Land tenure (women are repulsed) • Quality of Human Rsc • Market Liberalisation • Lack of Market • Value Addition • Poor Infrastructure • Middlemen

  4. Lack of electricity culture • Value Addition • Unemployment • Attitude Towards Work • Exploitation of Women • Polygamy • Family Planning • Hygiene (Jiggers)

  5. Lack of resources Family breakdown • Agricultural (mechanisation, inputs) • Fishing (Gears, Market, Security) • Mining (Equipment, Management, Processing) • Disunity of family unit • Parental Responsibility • Child Labour • Child Led Families • Culture 85% illegal marriages • Child abuse (45% girls) defiled by 12- unwanted children) • Domestic Violence (etc)

  6. Youth dilemma POOR ATTITUDE • Unemployment • Crime • Social Exclusion • Education (Illiterate Graduates) • Lack of Skills • Political Status • Agricultural Disengagement • Poor Savings Culture • Disunity (PHD) • Poverty (Embraced as part of our culture) • Poor Spending (Financial) Skills • Inheritance

  7. ENFORCEMENT AGENTS Poor Government intervention • Technical (e.g NAADs) • Political (Disempowered Political Leaders) • Lack of effective monitoring systems • Ineffective Supervision, Checks & Balances for CAOs • Persistent Failure Programmes (E.g NAADS) • Legal Gap: No repercussion for misuse of Government Resources on either side. • Poor reception of Government Programmes. • Corruption by Government Officials. • Lack of Post Implementation follow up.

  8. POOR INFRASTRUCTURE • Roads • Water (Jja port moved to Kampala, No bridges) • Rail • Hospitals & Health Centres • Schools • Blood Bank • Education & Training Institutions

  9. ELECTIVE POLITICS • Community Responsibility abandoned to Politicians (Education, healthcare, funerals). • Politicians fear to enforce community responsibility (Gambling, Idleness, etc) • Youths: (Engaged in political activities have abandoned economic activities). • Lack of Local Leadership: LCI Hereditary, they have abandoned their duties due to poor pay. • Money Politics: People have to be paid to attend sensitization, training, etc. • Political Bickering.

  10. LACK OF REVENUE • No Revenue Backflow (Fishing, Tourism, Forests). • Local Tax Rejection (even to feed their own children is not acceptable)

  11. AVOIDABLE DEATHS • Anaemia, Accidents, Dependency tendencies; • Acute Shortage of Medical Staff, • Unwanted Pregnancies; • Extremely poor maternity services,etc.

  12. OTHERS • Lack of business & interpersonal skills (Unemployment, Poor Human Rsc Output) • Access to water (Distribution, Safety, Functionality) • Food Insecurity (Low production, Sugarcane, Bandwagon production) • Presidential Pledges (Laziness, Fulfilment, Follow Up) • Lack of Microfinance (Services, Affordability, Failure rate). • Negligence & Ignorance (Public Rscs & Utilisation).

  13. OTHERS Continued…. • Ideological Confusion (Polygamy, SACCOs, Witchcraft, Home improvement, Mpanama, etc • Education System Challenges (Quality, Insufficient Funding, Attitude, High dropout rates, Religious Cults (666), Child Labour, Defilement.

  14. BASOGA PEOPLE STRATEGIES • Leadership; Training, non involvement of politicians in implementation. • Ineffective Govt Intervention; Direct Payments, Special Programme, Affordable credit access • Agriculture; Co-operatives, subsidies, zoning, sensitization • Food Security; Compulsory measures, Sugarcane crack down. • Market Assurance; Quality Assurance, Co-ops

  15. PRESIDENTIAL STRATEGIES • FOOD SECURITY • IMPROVING HOUSE HOLD INCOMES • CO-OPERATIVES • MECHANISATION • VALUE ADDITION.

  16. TURN KEY INTERVENTIONS • BUSOGA DEVELOPMENT CO-OP UNION • SENSITIZATION • CAPITAL INPUTS • 3-4 MODEL PARISHES (MBULAMUTI, KASOKWE, NAMUNGALWE, LOBBYING FOR ONE IN BUGIRI). • PARTNERSHIPS • MODEL/AIDED FARMERS FROM ALL PARTS OF BUSOGA. • VALUE ADDITION PROCESSING UNITS • REVIVAL/ MODERNISATION OF CO-OPS

  17. REQUESTS FROM DIASPORA • Investment: Large Scale Farming with Our Support; • Land: Help us with unutilized land for communal gardens. • Parental Support: Donations to families to support them into Agriculture/Value Addition. • Volunteering; Sensitization and exposure of Basoga. • Exchange Visits. • Sponsor a Farmer; Donate $500, twice a year, to support a farmer. • Capital Inputs; $100 buy 100kgs of beans = 2400kg. • Urgent Support with mechanisation & access to water. • Mediation between political leaders.

  18. BENEFITS • Protection of Utilised Land • Increased Income from Uganda. • Recognition & Spiritual Satisfaction • Working Experience & Exposure. • Sustainable family support & reconciliation. • Sustainable Development; 1 farmer will repay 2 bags of seed, helping 2 other farmers,etc. • Unity & Reunification of Busoga & Basoga = ULTIMATE REVIVAL OF BUSOGA REGION

  19. THANKS FOR LISTENING FOR MORE INFORMATION E-mail: mfwaluube@aol.com Visit: www.busogapovertyalleviation.go.ug +256772616342 Office: Plot 7, Kidera Road, Jinja. PRESENTED BY: Mrs Maureen Faith KyalyaWaluube Presidential Advisor & Co-ordinator/Poverty Alleviation, Busoga Region.

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