INTRODUCTION
Kumi Bukedea RDP is a rural development programme being implemented by Self Help Africa in Eastern Uganda. Work started in 2007, and is scheduled for completion in 2011.
LOCATION
Kumi Bukedea RDP is a district in Eastern Uganda. Situated adjacent to Amuria, where Self Help Africa worked previously, the project has a total population of more than 400,000.
ECONOMY
Subsistence agriculture and animal husbandry are the two main economic activities in the district. Crops grown include cassava, rice, groundnuts, sorghum and millet.
PROJECT OBJECTIVE
Self Help Africa is working to improve the livelihood of rural people in a sustainable manner through supporting and ensuring household food security, improved household incomes, and improved access to basic social services.
PROJECT ACTIVITIES
The primary focus of the project is on improving agricultural productivity for approximately 6,800 households not having access to improved seeds in the targeted 7 sub-counties of Kumi and Bukedea Districts by 2011.
Self Help Africa is also seeking to assist communities to increase accessibility to and utilization of basic social services, to increase understanding of, and participation in, environment, gender and HIV/AIDS issues in all programme activities, and to promote learning and best practice.
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