By Doreen Bazio.
“Who will now take care of us when the project ends in December?” Kevin Cezirina, 40, who is lame, laments as we interact on the benefit of DRDIP to her community.
By Doreen Bazio.
In 2021, the residents of Maaji II Refugee Settlement welcomed Maaji Secondary School in 2021 under the Uganda Secondary Education Expansion Project with reservation. While they knew it would improve access to education, the project had only achieved that basic right; a lot still needed to be done to improve learning outcomes for especially girls.
By Chandia Sharon and Bazio Doreen.
“Whereas a mere thought of disarming factors like inadequate start-up capital, unforeseen natural challenges (climatic), limited production energy (man power/machinery), destructive human/animal activities among others may all but unnerve any faint hearted in pursuit of long-term success dreams as a farmer, sheer determination, hard work, endurance, patience, among all, the WILL to succeed as a group is a story only told for the brave”.
By Bazio Doreen and Alfred Ejoi.
Limited involvement of refugees in financial inclusion has been blamed on poverty in the settlements, which decreases the viable customer base; and the fact that businesses are used for subsistence to keep families afloat, which takes away from reinvestment in the business.
However, about 7,000 aspirant agribusiness entrepreneurs who receive funding from Development Response for Displacement Impact Project (DRDIP) through their Village Revolving Fund (VRF) have now been empowered to start their businesses effortlessly.
By David Anyanzo and Bazio Doreen.
Life in Uganda under the government project when well embraced by the citizens can, raise one’s standard of living and all this can happen due to hard work which will earn a milestone in the lives of the Community members.
The group members of Lori village, Loa Parish, and Ciforo Sub County in Adjumani are among the luckiest groups who have benefited positively under the DRDIP projects in Adjumani District.
By Marko Taibot and Bazio Doreen.
Residents of Maaji III Refugee Settlement, Ukusijoni Sub-County Adjumani district including the host community are reaping from the benefits of an irrigation scheme worth Shs 156m that was established under the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP). The beneficiaries numbering up to 95, have since last year accumulated revenue of more than Shs 2.8m from the sale of the vegetables from their Irrigation farm.
By Bazio Doreen and Ronald Debo (Aulogo FM).
Residents of Ukusijioni Sub-County, Adjumani District are excited about completion of the construction of a well-established Resource Center in Kiraba Parish worth 1.5 billion shillings, funded by the World Bank - IDA through Uganda Support to Infrastructure Development-Additional Funding –USMID-AF refugee window.
According to the Project Clerk of Works, John Paul Kalamoi, who represents the District Engineer and does daily supervision of the works, the Resource Centre will be handed over by the end of February 2024.
By Bazio Doreen and Onzima Allan (West Nile TV).
Residents and leaders of Ukusijioni Sub County have welcomed the Market constructed under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development Additional Financing (USMID-AF) arguing that it will help to improve trade relations between Adjumani and its neighbors. This as, the market is able to accommodate over 2,000 people with enough storage facilities, sanitary facilities, and well fenced.
By: Bazio Doreen and Amacha Goli (Daily Express).
The Adjumani Town Council Mayor has hailed the Government of Uganda and the communities of Adjumani District for accepting to host a huge number of refugees which has greatly impacted in terms of real infrastructure development. Most notably, through the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development Additional Financing (USMID-AF) project funded by World Bank – IDA and implemented through the Ministry of Lands and Adjumani District Local Government.
By Bazio Doreen and Nancy Aol
Residents of Adjumani Town Council and Ukusijoni Sub County are optimistic that the new Resource Center constructed in their area and the Leisure Park constructed in Adjumani Town Council under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development Additional Financing (USMID-AF) is going to spur economic and social development.
The construction of the facility valued at shs 1.52 billion at Kiraba Parish that commenced in May 2023 is now standing at 98% completion rate. The contract was awarded to Weko Engineering consultants Limited.
By Bazio Doreen and Marko Taibot
A section of the refugees from Maaji I Refugee Settlement, in Ukusijoni Sub County, Adjumani District, have hailed the Government of Uganda and the World Bank for heeding to their cry for a better road that connects them to many service points.
The 20.59km Kulukulu-Zoka road that is worth shs 2,231,356,352/= is funded by the World Bank under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development Additional Funding (USMID-AF) that started in June 2024 and was intended to end on December 31st, 2023.
By Bazio Doreen and Taibot Marko
Farmers in Adjumani District, including refugees, have been urged to take advantage of the multibillion market that has been constructed under the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development Additional Financing (USMID-AF) project in Kiraba Parish, Ukusijoni Sub-county, Adjumani District.
By Bazio Doreen and Aol Nancy.
Local leaders and residents in Adjumani District are happy and excited about the grace period extended to the on-going road works in Adjumani Town Council under Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development-Additional Funding (USMID-AF) that was intended to end on 31st December 2023. The 3.1-kilometer road construction costs 10.3 billion and kick started in the month of June 2023.
By: Bazio Doreen and Amacha Goli (Daily Express).
The World Bank-funded Leisure Park Project in Adjumani Town Council under USMID-AF was launched by the Minister of State for Lands, Housing, and Urban Development, Hon. Kania Mario Obiga, on August 10th 2022, amid a stern warning to the contractor, Hotel Zawadi Ltd., over delayed works. Hon. Kania further directed the district leaders and technical officers to keenly monitor and supervise the work progress so that the contractor will be dealt with swiftly if he is not compliant.
By Bazio Doreen.
The State House Comptroller, Ms. Jane Barekye, has handed over 2 tractors, harrow discs, and ploughs to support the livelihood of teachers and health workers in Adjumani District who undertake commercial agriculture.
