Self Help Africa followed a successful pilot project at Asamuk, with its first area based integrated programme at Amuria, Uganda in 2002.
Civil strife between the Government and forces led by the rebel Lords Resistence Army (LRA) led to a temporary suspension of activities in 2004, while the project was subsequently disrupted by heavy flooding in late 2007.
Self Help Africa launched its second area based programme at Kamuli in 2005, and in 2007 embarked on it's newest project at Kayunga. Two of these programmes will be phased out in the coming year, when new ABPs will be started at Kumi and Mayuge districts.
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Uganda has gone through long periods of civil war and instability that caused extensive disruption to the country's entire farming system, leaving the majority of the population to rely in subsistence agriculture for ther survival.
Colonial boundaries that year created during colonialism had grouped together a wide range of ethnic groups with different political systems and cultures within the territory of Uganda, and as a consequence a working political community did not naturally emerge following independence in 1962.
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