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  • Poetry therapy – Christopher on war & peace

    To know war is to feel the heat of sun when it is over head on a sunny day.To know peace is to be like a king in his own palace.To see war is to experience the difficulties people under go when faced with major problems.To see peace is to have access to every basic…

  • Vegetable sun drying for food & nutrition security

    CPAR Uganda has partnered with Alinga Farms to add value to eboo (cow peas leaves) – vegetable sun drying using the indigenous knowledge of the Lango peoples of Uganda. The CPAR Uganda Finance and Administration Assistant Officer, Mrs. Rose Aceng Okello, has kicked off the project with class. She is the woman who is behind…

  • Farming as a business

    We selected Epuripur sorghum as the key crop for us to focus on for collective marketing. Fourteen members (11 women and 3 men) of our group bought Epuripur seeds from agents of Farmers Center, produced and bulked 1,680 kilograms. Through collective marketing we were able to sell our Epuripur produce at  700 shillings per kilogram.…

  • Minister Rebecca Otengo praises CPAR Uganda

    Hon. Rebecca Otengo – Minister of State for Northern Uganda – paid a visit to our Agricultural Livelihoods Recovery Programme (ALREP) “Improving Food Security and Agricultural Livelihoods of War Affected Communities” project in Agago. Hon. Otengo was accompanied by a delegation that included local government officials from various districts and other civil society organisations. The…

  • Ms. Norah Owaraga, CPAR Uganda Managing Director

    Since April 2012, Ms. Norah Owaraga is the Managing Director of CPAR Uganda. She has decades of work experience in the development arena providing distinguished services as an award wining senior development manager. Ms. Owaraga holds a Master of Science Degree in Development Management from the Open University, United Kingdom and is a cultural anthropologist…

  • Dr. Rita Laker-Ojok, first CPAR Uganda Board Chair

    Dr. Rita Laker-Ojok was our first ever Board Chair, and she served in that position from November 2008 to November 2015. She is among our founding member. She is currently the Chief of Party of the USAID Feed the Future AGRICULTURAL INPUTS Activity. Until October 2014, she was the Executive Director of AT-Uganda Ltd, a…

  • CPAR Uganda constructs and equips health centres

    Whereas, in the recent past CPAR Uganda has majorly focused on providing health training and awareness creation services, during the height of the insurgency in Northern Uganda – 1992 to 2008 – CPAR Uganda, as a Country office of the Canadian Physicians for AID and Relief, greatly contributed to health services in Northern Uganda through…

  • Farmers First project cassava multiplication

    Members of Kony Wa Women’s Farmer Field School (FFS), in 2012, received from CPAR Uganda training on cassava agronomy and cassava cuttings of variety MM/96/4271 variety (NASE 14) for multiplication, under our Farmers First (FF) Programme. This variety is resistant to brown streak virus and cassava mosaic virus which greatly impair yields of all other…

  • Farmers First (2009-2014)

    Farmers First was a five-year programme (May 2009 to June 2014) jointly implemented by Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief (CPAR) and CPAR Uganda. It was designed to improve and diversify on-farm production of rural farming households in four African countries, including Uganda. At its core was a series of activities designed to expand the…

  • KALIP project a success

    An analysis of 1,770 kilograms of maize that the participating households planted on a sample of 292 acres of land indicates that they harvested 110,000 kilograms; meaning that they realised a multiplication ratio of over 1:62.