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District
Development Support Programme
This six-year IFAD-initiated programme,
which is being supervised directly by IFAD, is a follow-up to the
ongoing Hoima District Integrated Community Development Project financed
by a grant from the Belgian Survival Fund Joint Programme. The programme
has been extended to cover the Kabarole District and aims primarily
to address the socio-economic problems of an extremely poor population
in a post-conflict situation. More specifically, the emphasis of the
programme is to:
- raise household and rural incomes through support to traditional
cash crops (coffee and bananas) and other income-generating activities
- improve the overall health status of the population through the
provision of clean water, sanitation facilities and primary health
care
- improve food security through an assessment of household nutritional
needs and suitable crop production support
- improve revenue collection and local governance to enhance the
long-term sustainability of public services
The participants are poor smallholders, and special attention is paid
to women and children. The programme reaches out to 255,000 households
(about 1.1 million people) the three districts. About 80 per cent of
the 1,103 villages in Hoima and Kibaale will benefit from better primary
health care, about 70,000 people are expected to benefit from the water
supply and sanitation components, and an estimated 30,000 people, notably
women, will benefit from the programme's support to rural finance. Local
NGOs are playing a central role in all of the activities.
Participating districts have made impressive gains in agricultural
production since the project began. For example, in Hoima, honey production
rose from 750 kg in 2003 to an estimated 4.5 tonnes by April 2004,
and rice production rose from 412 tonnes in 2002 to 2,000 tonnes by
early 2004. Similarly, by 2004 rice farmers in Kabaale and Kamwenge
districts had increased their profits from US$300 to US$600 per ha.
In addition, several new health units slated for construction were
completed by May 2004. The units are benefiting more than 100,000
people, many of whom had no previous access to health services.
Source: IFAD
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| Contact information |
Ms Marian Bradley
Country programme manager
IFAD
Via Paolo di Dono, 44
00142 Rome, Italy
Tel: +39 0654592326
Fax: +39 0654593326
m.bradley@ifad.org |
| Facts and figures |
Total cost: US$20.6 million
IFAD loan: US$12.6 million
Duration: 2000-2006
Geographical area: the midwestern districts of
Hoima, Kibaale and Kabarole
Directly benefiting: 39,750 households
Cofinancing: Belgian Survival Fund
Status: completed |
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