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USAID/Uganda
Primary
U.S. national interests in Uganda are humanitarian
response, democracy, global issues of population,
health, and environment and economic growth. All
are dramatically affected by internal and external
developments. Uganda is a critical player in conflicts
and tensions in the Great Lakes and Horn of Africa
regions and in USG efforts to address them. Its
development and stability are key to greater regional
political stability, economic development, and
East Africa' integration into the global marketplace.
Although Uganda continues to undergo a social,
political, and economic transformation that is
the envy of many other African societies, the
process is far from complete.
http://www.usaid.or.ug/ |
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SCOPE – Strengthening
the Competitiveness of Private Enterprise - Completed
June 2006.
SCOPE assisted private sector leaders in
targeted sub sectors to identify markets and set
market targets, develop market strategies and plans,
and work with the range of private and public sector
actors and resources needed to support achievement
of targets. SCOPE support to these market-driven
clusters included providing secretariat support
for cluster initiatives, packaging strategic action
plans, facilitating participation from public and
private sector sources, leveraging access to financing,
forging linkages with foreign buyers and international
trade initiatives, attracting both local and foreign
investment. As a counterpart to its cluster development
activities, SCOPE worked with and through private
sector led and market-driven clusters, government
agencies, subsector associations, and other donor-funded
efforts, to coalesce existing initiatives into a
sustainable framework of institutions and capacities
that will support achievement of continued increases
in competitiveness for Uganda and Ugandan products
in their target markets.
http://www.competeuganda.org |
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RuralSPEED - Support for Private Enterprise
Expansion and Development
Designed to meet the needs of microenterprises and
small and medium enterprises (SMEs), RuralSPEED
focuses on access to finance and business skills
development. Through the RuralSPEED Activity, USAID
seeks to increase access to financial services,
create and expand agricultural and non-agricultural
enterprises, and strengthen legal and regulatory
frameworks for business development in the SME and
microfinance sectors. Activities implemented under
the four components of the activity — SME
finance, microfinance, business development services
(BDS), and institutional environment — support
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IDEA - Investment in Developing Export
Agriculture - Completed June 2004.
IDEA was a 9 year activity funded by USAID, with
counterpart contributions from the Government of
Uganda (GoU). The goal of the IDEA Activity was
“to increase rural household incomes through
increased production and marketing of selected non-traditional
agricultural exports (NTAEs) and selected food products.”
IDEA worked to expand the production and exports
of low value (LV) but high volume food crops, such
as maize and beans, for regional markets; and of
high value (HV) but low volume NTAEs, such as cut
flowers, vanilla, fruits and vegetables, cocoa,
and papain, for international markets |
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PRIME –Productive Resource Investments
for Managing the Environment/Western Region
PRIME is an integrated rural development program
in southwest Uganda. The contract comprises a 3-month
design effort and 51 months of implementation. The
goal is to bring southwest Uganda into the global
marketplace. The approach to PRIME merges landscape
analysis with economic competitiveness. Landscape
analysis is the systematic analytical and planning
process to examine specific economic opportunities
available to people in the southwest and then plan
interventions, direct resources, and monitor change.
Activities that degrade the environment and are
ultimately not sustainable do not make it past this
process. The second component, economic competitiveness,
ensures that activities are economically viable
at the household, community, and regional levels.
Competitiveness occurs when continually sustained
increases in productivity yield higher profits and
expanding sales and market share for the producers
and enterprises in the region. Competitiveness makes
the landscape approach realistic. While the landscape
approach tempers the need for economic growth with
an array of environmentally viable options. |
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DANIDA /ASPS – Agriculture Sector
Programme Support
The Agricultural Sector Programme Support (ASPS)
is a Uganda agricultural development Programme supported
by Danida. The Programme has its focus on poverty
reduction and household food security. It aims at
improving the livelihood of small-scale farmers
by increasing production in the rural areas. The
ASPS is targeting the agricultural sector in a broad
sense, providing assistance to a diversified number
of activities including agricultural education,
establishment of district agricultural training
and information centers, support for rural households,
assistance to livestock research, support to farms
organizations and the provision of rural financial
services. ASPS aims at mainstreaming gender in all
agricultural activities to effectively represent
and involve men and women as equal partners at all
levels in agricultural development.
http://www.asps.or.ug/ |
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RATES - Regional Agriculture Trade Expansion
Support program
RATES is a five year program funded by USAID’s
regional office (REDSO) based in Nairobi. The RATES
program is designed to increase value/volume of
agricultural trade within the East and Southern
Africa region and between the region and the rest
of the world. RATES focuses on developing commodity-specific
regional trade initiatives through innovative private
sector/public sector alliances and partnerships
and works primarily through regional trade flow
leaders such as regional trade associations, national-level
trade organizations, private companies and individual
entrepreneurs. RATES is currently supporting activities
in specialty coffee, maize and pulses, cotton/textiles,
livestock and dairy sectors.
http://www.ratescenter.org/ |
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VANEX - Uganda Vanilla Exporters Association
VANEX promotes further development of the vanilla
industry in Uganda. VANEX is a private-sector association
of Ugandan small farmers and processors dedicated
to increasing the incomes of its members and maintaining
the quality of Ugandan vanilla.
http://www.ugandavanilla.org |
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UFEA - Uganda Flower Exporters Association
UFEA was established in 1995 and consists of 18
flower exporters. With assistance from IDEA Project,
the individual exporters formed an organised body
that is recognised nationally and internationally.
The offices are located 25 miles from Kampala, on
Masaka road at Nsimbe Estates. The flower Industry
consists of cut flowers and cuttings. Roses are
the major flower exports in the country. There are
26 rose varieties of which sweetheart roses are
commonly grown and yield better than the T-hybrids
due to adaptability to the climate. Production from
sweetheart roses ranges between 250-300 stems per
square-metre, while T-hybrid roses yield 110-150
stems per square-metre. Cuttings consist of Chrysanthemums
and Celosia. They grow well in the Ugandan climate.
Most flower farms are located in Mpigi district
near Lake Victoria and on the way to Entebbe airport.
A few farms are located in Mukono district. By the
end of 2001, there were 80 hectares under flower
and hectarage in 2002 was 140 hectares.
http://www.ufea.com
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UGTL - Uganda Grain Traders Ltd
Plot M193/194 Nakawa Industrial Area.
P.O. Box 7341 Kampala
Tel: (256) 41 220 932/27
Fax: (256) 41 220 926
E-mail: graintraders@infocom.co.ug
http://www.
ugandagrains.com |
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UCDA – Uganda Coffee Development
Authority
The Uganda Coffee Development Authority (UCDA) was
established by the Coffee Statute 1991 as amended
in 1994, with a statutory mandate:
"To
promote and oversee the coffee industry by developing
research, controlling quality, improving the market
and to provide for other matters connected therewith".
UCDA is a parastatal that falls under the Ministry
of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF).
http://www.ugandacoffee.org/ |
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USAID's Strategy in Uganda
http://www.usaid.gov/locations/sub-saharan_africa/countries/uganda/ |
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Chemonics
International Inc. |
Chemonics - Expanding Agricultural Exports
in Uganda
http://chemonics.com/projects/default.asp?content_id={F697DD4C-5FAF-4809-9394-16910053C
DC9} |
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FAO - Uganda - Agriculture Sector
http://www.fao.org/countryprofiles/index.asp?lang=en&iso3=UGA&subj=4 |
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RATIN - Regional Agricultural Trade Intelligence
Network
http://www.ratin.net |
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Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS
NET)
The Goal of the Famine Early Warning Systems Network
is to strengthen the abilities of African countries
and regional organizations to manage risk of food
insecurity through the provision of timely and analytical
early warning and vulnerability information. FEWS
NET is a USAID-funded activity.
http://www.fews.net/
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