MP Auma asks women to embrace PDM
LIRA – The Woman Member of Parliament representing Lira district, Linda Auma has called upon women to pick interest in the Parish Development Model [PDM] and Uganda Women Entrepreneurship Programme [UWEP] if they are to improve the economic status of their families.
Auma who is also the vice chairperson of the National Women`s Council [NWC] advised women to put politics away from the government programmes aimed at improving household incomes and livelihoods.
Auma said UWEP which is under the Gender ministry aims to empower women economically so that they are able to support their families.
She was briefing the media recently at Hotel Good News in Lira City on the different projects run by the NWC.
“We shall not allow this to happen because poverty doesn’t segregate whether you belong to the National Resistance Movement [NRM], Forum for Democratic Change [FDC] or Uganda People`s Congress [UPC],” she said while meeting a section of women leaders in Lira district.
Proscovia Ayo Otyek, the secretary Lira district NRM Women League urged women to form groups to access Parish Development Model.
She said many women have not been registered for the PDM and urged the government to strengthen sensitisation and mindset change messages encouraging women to embrace the poverty alleviation programme.
UWEP is an initiative of the Government of Uganda that is aimed at improving access to financial services for women and equipping them with skills for enterprise growth, value addition, and marketing of their products and services.
The programme is designed to address the challenges women face in undertaking economically viable enterprises including limited access to affordable credit, limited technical knowledge and skills for business development, limited access to markets as well as information regarding business opportunities.
Recently Lira City clerk, Lilian Ocari said UEP has registered success stories within the period it has existed.
‘We are so happy and as Lira City we are doing very well. We have success stories in Emyooga and UWEP and soon we will have success stories in other programmes,” she said.
The PDM launched in February 2022, is the 3rd National Development Plan [NDP III] implementation mechanism for both the State and Non-State Actors to achieve inclusive socio-economic transformation of 3.5 million subsistence households in a coordinated, collaborative and participatory manner, using the parish /ward as the last-mile for development.
Priority commodities for commercial production under the PDM are; Coffee, cotton, cocoa, cassava, tea, vegetable oils, maize, rice, sugar cane, fish, dairy, beef, bananas, beans, avocado, shea nut, cashew nuts, and macadamia.
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