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  • 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 he grants her the permission to do so, she will likely have to bring back…

  • 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 are actively doing in 2015 in preparation for the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections –…

  • 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,” the graduating innovators were informed and they accepted that the certificates that they were given…

  • 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 Bank. The goal of NUSAF is to help local communities in the 18 districts of…

  • 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 the first of four modules, “Understanding Poverty in Rural Uganda”, of its project: “Mentoring Young…

  • 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 praised Ms. Norah Owaraga, the CPAR Uganda Managing Director, for her volunteer spirit and commitment…

  • 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 the venue in which we organised our certificate award ceremony. We used what was…

  • The poverty of poverty lines

    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 percent the percentage of people living on less than US$ 1.25 a day.  Sadly, this…

  • We cause our own poverty in Lango

    The people living in rural areas in Lango are mostly considered to be poor. This was confirmed by estimates of a food basket for Lango Sub-Region (Lango food basket) calculated by us, CPAR Uganda innovators in training in January 2020. Our calculations for a Lango food basket and non-food consumption estimates for 16 households in…

  • Analysis tools – poverty problem trees

    Poverty problem trees are truly a powerful tool for analysing and appreciating poverty. And each time one uses them well, it is likely that they will learn something new. For example, this was the case two weeks ago when I facilitated a session on poverty analysis for a cadre of 12 young adults whom are…