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Uganda
AGRICULTURE
- Bukonde Cooperative Savings and Credit Society Ltd: Revolving Finance Services to Enhance Farm Production and Marketing Skills Project - (pdf file, 140kb)
The project will provide a revolving finance scheme to generate income, nutritious food, cash employment and boost household farm production and productivity, thereby improving household livelihoods in Bukonde Sub County. Community training and capacity needs will also be identified and prioritized. The project will work towards the development of democracy, responsibility sharing and capacity building, providing skills not only for employment but also for the advancement of education.
- Kachumbala Area Cooperative Enterprise: Internet based Cooperative Marketing Information Villages Project- (pdf file, 140kb)
The project will establish a rural information network that will create knowledge centres in five villages. Kachumbala, a market centre and administrative node, will be the project’s headquarters and the information network’s hub. Here the staff will produce, translate, and update the information fed into the network. Each village will have a small, community-owned village knowledge centre, staffed by trained volunteers and equipped with a computer, printer, telephone, and with Internet access. The project will provide supervised free access to over 3000 rural farmers wishing to find agricultural and marketing information, learn about computers, search the Internet, communicate by phone or email, or use other services such as word processing, printing, and fax.
- Bukonde Cooperative Savings and Credit Society Ltd: Revolving Finance Services to Enhance Farm Production and Marketing Skills Project - (pdf file, 140kb)
The project will provide a revolving finance scheme to generate income, nutritious food, cash employment and boost household farm production and productivity, thereby improving household livelihoods in Bukonde Sub County. Community training and capacity needs will also be identified and prioritized. The project will work towards the development of democracy, responsibility sharing and capacity building, providing skills not only for employment but also for the advancement of education.
- Nama Area Cooperative Enterprise Ltd: Establishment of Fish feed Manufacturing Plant and Fish Breeding Centre Project - (pdf file, 140kb)
The project will improve the quality of life for smallholder farmers by offering them capacity building, market information and agribusiness development services. A fish feed manufacturing plant and a fish-breeding centre to produce 900 Metric tons of fish feeds and 500,000 fingerlings within a period of 9 months will also be established. Personnel will be trained in manufacturing and breeding techniques.
- RUKAKA Dairy Farmers’ Cooperative Society Ltd: Improvement of Milk Quality Project - (pdf file, 140kb)
The project will improve the livelihood of members through increased incomes derived from the premium prices paid to members for delivering quality milk. The project will acquire modern laboratory equipment such as a lacto-scan and a digital weighing scale to enable grading, weighing and paying for the milk according to its quality. Grading the milk will encourage farmers to improve their dairy farming skills, and provide an incentive for added effort.
- Wamala Growers Cooperative Union: Cooperative Dairy Processing and Marketing Project- (pdf file, 140kb)
The project will improve the union’s dairy production, storage, packaging, and collective marketing, which will in turn increase the farmers’ bargaining power leading to higher sale prices, thus making dairy production a profitable venture
HEALTH
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- Aminanara Savings and Credit Cooperative Society Ltd Ox Ploughs and Drawn Carts, Cereal Cultivation, Soil Enhancement, Corn Milling and Skills Development Project
The project will maximize its member’s cereal cultivation (Maize, millet, sorghum) and storage solutions, therefore increasing income and fighting poverty. The first step to the success of this project is maximizing acreage by the use of ox ploughs. Also, the soil nutrients being exhausted, it plans to introduce the use of fertilizers, leading to bigger crops.
- Uganda Crane Creameries Cooperative Union: Cooperative Dairy Processing Project - (pdf file, 140kb)
Cooperative Dairy Processing Project The project will allow dairy farmers to play a bigger role in the dairy value chain. The outcomes of the project will be increased employment and incomes, stronger cooperative organizations and quality improvement of the products.
- Uganda Cooperative Alliance Ltd: Co-operative Approaches to Enterprise Promotion and Rural Community Development - (pdf file, 140kb)
The project is to building the capacity of UCA staff and managers of leading organisations in Uganda through training in cooperative management. The training is dealing in detail with the issues and challenges of human empowerment and enterprise development in rural Uganda and the effectiveness of promoting the cooperative business model along with the support network and creating an empowering environment that promotes cooperative develop within communities. The training is further examining the best ways of establishing and managing processes of Cooperative/SME enterprise development.
- I-Network: Rural Market Intelligence Project - (pdf file, 140kb)
The project will focus on raising awareness of the role and importance of information in production and marketing and coaching beneficiaries on production information gathering. The project will expand sustainable micro level economic opportunities by empowering organized high level farmer groups with access and use of market information for enterprise selection decisions, and by generating production information for bulking and collective marketing.
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