Adongo is a poor rural woman who lives in Alebtong District. Early every morning, she wakes up at 5:00 a.m. with her children to dig in their family garden rich with beans, cassava, abuga, and boyo. She does so in…
CPAR Uganda
A Ugandan nonprofit development Organisation that is advocating for healthy and dignified lives for all Ugandans; and during which their rights are respected.
The Richest Man in Kole
Mr. Okello, the richest man in my village is a smallholder farmer practising mixed farming. He cultivates mainly temporary cash crops like: cassava, millet and maize; and vegetables like boyo, abuga. Every plot of his land has fruits like mangoes,…
Women, Land, Credit and Gender Issues
One of the symptoms of negative gender issues is when, in the bid to fulfill her duty to submit to her husband, a woman seeks consent from him to use land as security to get credit. When she does and…
Elections and the Vicious Cycle of Poverty
It is that season again - Presidential and Parliamentary Elections are due next year and the election canvasing has began. During a similar season leading up to the 2016 elections, i wrote: When Ugandan politicians are electioneering – as they…
Young Adults Make Social Contracts
On Friday, 14th February 2020, during their certificate award ceremony at which CPAR Uganda awarded 11 young adults certificates for successfully completing Module 1: “Understanding Poverty in Rural Uganda” of the its project: “Mentoring Young Adults into Innovators against Poverty,”…
Money is not good for poor people
I was the one responsible for NUSAF (Northern Uganda Social Action Fund) in the whole of Uganda. They said: “here is the loan, make them rich.” A difficult task. “NUSAF is a government (initiative) with $100 million of funding from the World…
A Rare Board of Directors
Speaking as that Guest of Honour at the graduation ceremony that CPAR Uganda held on Friday, 14th February 2020 at its Lira Learning Centre, in order to awarded certificates to its first cohort of young adults who had successfully completed…
Ms. Norah Owaraga Praised
Mr. Alex B. Okello, The Permanent Secretary of the Directorate of Ethics and Integrity, in the Office of the President of the Republic of Uganda, who is also the Finance Committee Chair of the CPAR Uganda Board of Directors, has…
CPAR Uganda Symbolism
On Friday, 14th February 2020 we graduated our first cohort of young adults under our project: "Mentoring Young Adults into Innovators against Poverty," who had completed the first of four modules of the programme.We converted our vehicle parking shed into…
Ending poverty eludes us
The first goal that formed the United Nations (UN) Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) was to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger from the world and within a 15-year period that ended in 2015. Specifically, the target was to reduce by 50…
