On Thursday 31st
January 2013, the civil servants, political leaders and development partners
assembled at the kyegegwa district headquarters to plan for the 2013/2014
financial year. it was interesting to
learn from the District that has existed for less than four years that has
clear plans of improving household incomes, according to the District production and
marketing officer, she mentioned projects as the milk cooling plants that will be set up for people in kyegegwa and
mpara sub counties, maize milling machines for kasule, Hapuuyo, kasule sub counties targeting the local citizens ,
however the political leaders tasked the civil servants to prepare the local
citizens by forming and registering them as Cooperatives and CBOs to fully benefit from
such upcoming projects. The District has also few days to suffer from lack of
power as they have already formalized with RESCO Uganda LTD to assess the power
and compensation related issues, this is an opportunity for reduced cost on
fuel at the same time making it easy for RIC-NET in partnership with the
District to establish and run the E-society for improved information sharing and
accountability from leaders to the citizens. besides RIC-NET, other development partners that participated in the meeting was Ride-Africa,
Baylor, UNHCR (kyaka 11 refugee settlement).