Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (WE4A) programm for Uganda has concluded, with policymakers urged to ensure easier conditions for women to access affordable finance. The program, Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (WE4A), was financed to the tune of sh78 billion by the Tony Elumelu Foundation, …
Read More »USAID poverty, malnutrition project winds up
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A multi-billion shillings Integrated Community Agriculture and Nutrition – ICAN activity by the United States Agency for International Development – USAID has come to an end. The USAID ICAN project was a five-year flagship resilience activity inaugurated in July 2018 and ending in July …
Read More »Bobi Wine brings back our Dubai ‘girls’
Tears as many speak of the dark side of the UAE Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | It was a sad scene at Entebbe International Airport as a group of 12 young Ugandan men and women, some unable to sit or walk, and in tears, returned home and spoke of …
Read More »Uganda rolls out National Single Registry for social protection
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development has launched government’s National Single Registry for Social Protection. This ushers in a new dawn of planning, implementation and monitoring of social protection programmes in the country. The Registry is a digital platform that consolidates information …
Read More »ANALYSIS: School fees crunch
The tricks schools use to raise fees As schools across the country opened for the first term of 2017 a few weeks ago, the anger among parents over hiked school fees appears to have hit boiling point. The media was awash with circulars of various schools, especially government schools which …
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