Implementation of LRDP in Kasese District
Since its inception in the FY 2019/10, the LRDP programme has implemented both infrastructural and household income projects across the district. The district is categorised among the high intensity districts that suffered adversely the effects of the NRM liberation struggle of 1981-1986 and later on the ADF insurgency of 1996-2003. There is therefore great need for reconstruction and resettlement in Kasese District because the population has been on the move due to insurgency in the last 3 decades. At the start of the programme, the district implemented both inflastructural and household income projects until the FY 2012/13 when the programme was refocused to only cover household income projects.
The overall goal of the programme is to redress the adverse social economic effects of the insurgencies that disrupted the social economic well-being of the population in Kasese District.
Participating Sub Counties
Since inception, the programme has covered all the 29 LLGs in the district. These include the 23 rural sub counties of Kitholhu, Karambi, Ihandiro, Bwera, Nyakiyumbu, Isango, Nyakatonzi, Munkunyu, Lake Katwe, Kisinga, Kyarumba, Kyondo, Mahango, Muhokya, Rukoki, Karusandara, Kilembe, Bugoye, Maliba, Kitswamba, Buhuhira, Kyabarungira and Bwesumbu, the 3 town councils of Katwe Kabatoro, Mpondwe Lhubiriha and Hima, the 3 divisions of Bulembia, Central and Nyamwamba in Kasese Municipality.
Main activities supported
In the earlier years of the programme, infrastructural projects such as construction of OPDs at health centres, student dormitories at schools, staff houses at primary schools and latrines. Others included road rehabilitation.
Local economic development household income areas supported under the refocused LRDP program since inception
- Mini irrigation schemes to provide water for production
- Poultry hatchery establishment
- Value addition for maize value chain with milling machines
- Value addition for coffee value chain with pulping and hulling machines
- Supply of heifers to pastoralist communities
- Fish fry production and multiplication
- Construction of storage facilities for maize & coffee
- Valley dam construction for pastoralist communities
General Financial Summary
Funds received by the district during the FY 2014/15
| Releases 2014/15 shs | ||||
| 1stQtr | 2ndQtr | 3rdQtr | 4thQtr | Total |
| 237,214,139 | 217,919,843 | 187,633,000 | 29,783,000 | 672,549,982 |
| Project Allocation | Monitoring allocation | Total | |
| District Grants | 623,604,710 | 48,945,272 | 672,549,982 |
| Micro Projects | 35,000,000 | – | 35,000,000 |
| Grand total | 707,549,982 |
Detailed resource use
| Sector | Name of project | Location(Sub county; parish) | Activity details | No. of beneficiaries | Amount |
| Production & Marketing | Construction of Mini Irrigation Scheme at Katsungiro on the Kanyampara river channel | Munkunyu, Katsungiro | Stone pitching 1.5km length of earth canals | 610 | 161,776,120 |
| Production & Marketing | Construction of 2 storage facilities for coffee and maize farmers in Nyakiyumbu and Kitswamba S/Cs respectively | Muhindi in Nyakiyumbu S/C & Hima in Kitswamba S/C | Construction works | 430 | 80,150,750 |
| Production & Marketing | Supply and installation of 10 coffee hulling machines to organized coffee farmers | S/Cs of Karambi, Muhokya, Lake Katwe, Rukoki, Bugoye, Maliba & Kyabarungira | Fabricated coffee hulling machines procured & installed | 355 | 115,270,300 |
| Production & Marketing | Supply and installation of 5 maize milling and hulling machines to organized farming groups | Parishes of Railway & Kamaiba, Rugendabara, Kabagaga & Nyamambuka in the S/Cs of Central division, Kitswamba, Kyabarungira & Mpondwe Lhubiriha TC respectively | Fabricated maize/cassava milling & hulling machines procured & installed | 161 | 112,509,020 |
| Production & Marketing | Establishment of a video and music production & recording studio for youth group | Kisanga in Nyamwamba Division | Procure music & video recording equipment | 19 | 39,435,090 |
| Production & Marketing | Support pastoralist groups with 10 improved heifers | Busunga in Lake Katwe S/C & Muruti in Nyakatonzi S/C | Procured 10 improved heifers | 19 | 14,750,600 |
| Production & Marketing | Support 4 apiary groups with bee production equipment & accessories | LLGs of Mahango, Kitholhu, Buhuhira & Kyondo | 123 bee hives procured bee hives & supplied | 46 | 11,933,500 |
| Production & Marketing | Under take operation and maintenance works on valley dam at Muruti in Nyakatonzi S/C | Muruti in Nyakatonzi S/C | Drainange channel cleared and re channelled to dam | 213 | 13,219,400 |
| Production & Marketing | 80 improved piglets and starter feed procured for various youth groups | Town Centre in Hima TC, Karusandara in Karusandara S/C & Kyogha in Bwera S/C | 80 improved piglets & starter feeds procured | 80 | 23,149,330 |
| Production & Marketing | Support 3 model fishing groups with fish, fish cage materials and starter feed | Scheme ward in Nyamwamba Division, Katunguru in Lake Katwe S/C & Kahendero in Muhokya S/C | Fish fry, cage nets & fish feed procured | 66 | 40,100,000 |
| Health | Complete payments for the construction of Buhathiro HC II in Ihandiro S/C | Buhathiro in Ihandiro S/C | OPD at Buhathiro HC II | 1,322 | 11,310,600 |
| Planning Unit | Undertake sensitization, supervision, consultations & monitoring of LRDP projects across the district including bank charges | District wide | – | – | 48,945,272 |
| Sub Total | 672,549,982 | ||||
| Micro projects | |||||
| Production & Marketing | Support Save together Development Cooperative & Credit Society Ltd | Central Division in Kasese Municipality | Credit for small businesses availed for members | 21 | 20,000,000 |
| Production & Marketing | Support veterans group with maize milling & hulling machine | Muhokya Trading Centre in Muhokya S/C | Maize mill & hulling machined procured | 33 | 15,000,000 |
| Sub Total | 35,000,000 | ||||
Challenges in Implementation of LRDP
- Inadequate transport to enhance monitoring and supervision of projects
- Lack of clear policy on public private partnerships limits the participation and engagement of organized private sector players in household income projects. This limits the scale of projects which could have otherwise promoted mini industry development
Recommendations
- Government should issue clear guidelines and policy on public private partnerships
- The programme should provide a motor vehicle for the district LRDP team to effectively monitor, document and supervise LRDP projects.
