Farm Income Enhancement and Forest Conservation

contribute to poverty reduction and economic growth in Uganda through enhanced productivity and commercialization of agriculture.

COUNTRY/REC Uganda

PROJECT COVERAGE Single-country

PROJECT PERIOD April 2016 - December 2020

PROJECT SITE Nebbi, Oyam, Butaleja, Kween, Kasese

Implementing agencies, partners, and budget (USD)

# Agency / Partner Budget
1 Ministry of Water and Environment
2 AfDB 76,700,000.00
3 Nordic Development Fund (NDF) 5,600,000.00
4 GoU 9,130,000.00

Project scheme and budget (USD)

Project budget (USD) Rice component share (%) Rice component budget (USD)
Technical Assistance 0 0 0
Grant 5,600,000.00 89 4,984,000.00
Loan 76,700,000.00 89 68,263,000.00
Governmental 9,130,000.00 89 8,125,700.00
Other 0 0 0
Total 91,430,000.00 - 81,372,700.00
Project Goal

contribute to poverty reduction and economic growth in Uganda through enhanced productivity and commercialization of agriculture.

Project Objectives

improve household incomes food security and climate resilience through sustainable natural resources management and agricultural enterprise development

Project Outputs

5 Small/Medium Scale Irrigation schemes with a total of 4038 Ha developed for rice cultivation,

Capacity building of water user associations (WUAs)

Agribusiness development in seedling production and crop intensification

Project activities

Agricultural Infrastructure Development

Agribusiness Development

Integrated Natural Resources Management

Project Management

RICE Approach: Areas of contribution by the project

Resilience Industrialization Competitiveness Empowerment
R1: Area under irrigation
I1: Capacity of industrial mills
C1: Share of local rice
E1: Access to financial services
R2: Quantity of resilient seeds
I2: Mechanization ratio
C2: Quantity of high-yielding seeds
E2: Access to technical services

SIEM

Policy / Institutional Infrastructure Human Resource Capacity Provision of Equipments or services Knowledge / Research
Seed
Fertilizer
Irrigation / water management
On-farm technology transfer
Mechanization
Quality Improvement
Access to market
Access to credit
Overall policy tools

Crosscutting

Women

Youth

Nutrition

Climate Change

Food system