BY ISAAC MUGERA - Members of Parliament from the Greater North Parliamentary Forum (GNPF) have conducted a 3-day monitoring exercise of NUSAF3 Projects in the Karamoja Sub region. The 18-member team of MPs, plus 3 Ministers, were led by the Min. of State for Karamoja affairs, Hon. Moses Kizige. Other Ministers were Hon. Fr. Simon Lokodo, [...]
By Isaac Mugera - A Delegation from the World Bank is in West Nile region in Uganda to meet with leaders and residents in Yumbe district at Bidi-bidi Refugee Camp to discuss the preparedness of the communities and implementers on the upcoming projects to be supported by the World Bank in the region. The projects are [...]
By Isaiah Kitimbo - The Government has signed grant contracts amounting to EUR 27 million or Shs114.5 billion with nine organisations to implement development projects in Northern Uganda under the Development Initiative for Northern Uganda (DINU). DINU is a Government of Uganda programme supported by the European Union aimed at improving livelihoods in the five sub-regions [...]
BY ISAAC MUGERA - The Min. of State for Disaster Preparedness and Management in the Office of the Prime Minister, Hon. Musa Ecweru, has this morning addressed members of the Press on the current Floods, Landslides, and Windstorms Disaster situation in the Country. The Minister presented government responses to the situation including life saving interventions, emergence [...]
BY BERNADETTE NDEMA - Nutrition related content remains fairly reported in the media and this could be attributed, among other things, to lack of understanding of nutrition data and programming by journalists and communicators. In realisation of this, the Office of the Prime Minister, through the National Information Platforms for Nutrtion (NIPN) project, held a three [...]
By Isaac Mugera - The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) in Uganda, has received a Global Award for the outstanding monitoring and management of disasters in the country. In the Awards ceremony organized by the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) in Canberra- Australia on 6th November 2019, Uganda was recognized for the commendable use of [...]
By Ndema Bernadette, Communications Specialist, NIPN-OPM - Uganda is one of the countries taking part in the Scaling Up Nutrition (SUN) global gathering in Kathmandu Nepal 4-7 November 2019. Themed, Nourishing People and the Planet Together, the conference has convened over 60 countries which make up the SUN movement. Having joined the movement in 2011, Uganda [...]
By Rebecca Nabatanzi Sserwanga - Kampala, November 2019. The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), through her Strengthening Community Resilience to Climate Change and Disaster Risks (SCORE) project, in conjunction with the Media Challenge initiative (MCI), has spearheaded the Media Challenge Expo 2019. The Media Challenge Expo is the first of its kind that brings the media [...]
By Isaac Mugera – H.E. The President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and H.E. the President of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta have launched a major program to address the peace and development challenges facing people along the border areas of North Eastern Uganda and North Western Kenya. The Program code named, Cross-Border Programme for Sustainable Peace and [...]
By Isaac Mugera - The Permanent Secretary of the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Ms. Christine Guwatudde Kintu has made a comprehensive tour of OPM projects in Karamoja region to establish the progress and performance of these projects and the value they add to the community beneficiaries. The PS also visited the Resettlement Site in [...]
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