Namisindwa RDC tips youth on PDM
NAMISINDWA – The Namisindwa resident district commissioner [RDC], Imran Muluga has urged the youth in the district to take advantage of the Parish Development Model [PDM] and start up income-generating activities to improve their lives.
He made the remarks recently while addressing the PDM beneficiaries and leaders during a sensitisation meeting held at Bukhaweka Town Council in Namisindwa district.
Under the PDM, government has committed to give each parish in Uganda Shs 100 million every financial year for enterprise groups, beginning with the current financial year.
Enterprise groups and individuals can engage in income-generating activities such as coffee growing, poultry keeping, dairy, as well as growing beans, maize, groundnuts, among others, as provided by the PDM guidelines.
The RDC further told the leaders and youths that the PDM is aimed at bringing government resources [money] closer to the people through a revolving fund.
Muluga advised the people of Namisindwa to engage in the production of fast-maturing crops. “I advise youths to grow crops that do not require large pieces of land but are profitable. The focus should also be on the growing of vegetables,” he said.
He warned the residents in the district to desist from the habit of forming enterprise groups with the intent to get money and spend it on non-productive activities like drinking alcohol
Muluga advised the leaders at all levels to ensure that all enterprise groups that were selected to benefit from the PDM are genuine.
He also advised the youth to ensure that they are not left out out of the programme launched in February, 2022 to move 3.5 million households in the subsistence economy to the money economy, with government ready to spend Shs 1 trillion every financial year on the programme.
According to the PDM guidelines, youth and women respectively take 30 percent of the parish revolving fund while the rest is shared among people with disabilities [10 percent], older persons [10 percent, and men/general community [20 percent].
Muluga further advised the youth to work closely with their leaders at all levels, especially those on the Parish Development Committees [PDCs] and ensure that their interests are catered for in the allocation of resources.
The money is being provided under Pillar 3 of the PDM, which is Financial Inclusion and aligned to the National Microfinance Policy, the National Cooperative Policy, 2011, the National Payment Systems Policy, and the National Financial Inclusion Strategy [NFIS 2017-2022].
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