Lira receives Shs1b for PDM SACCOs
LIRA – The Lira district Commercial Officer, Santos Olade has cautioned people planning to mismanage the government’s programme of Parish Development Model [PDM] saying whoever is found will not be spared.
He says, the programme is a development approach conceived under the third National Development Plan [NDP III] and the population should take advantage to embrace and reduce household poverty.
According to Olade, the government has already released Shs1b to kick start the implementation of the PDM in 56 parishes in the district. The PDM SACCOs have been earmarked to loan out the money to organised groups in each parish.
The program according to the government has seven pillars which include production, storage and marketing, infrastructure and economic services, financial inclusion, social services, mindset change and cross-cutting issues [gender, environment and disability].
Other pillars according to Olade include parish based management information system and governance and administration.
It targets to deepen the decentralization process, improve household income, enable inclusive, sustainable, balanced and equitable socio-economic transformation and increase accountability at local levels.
There are 10,595 parishes in the country and the government has earmarked Shs100m for each parish in a financial year.
“I am prospecting this Parish development Model to work well because of the approach and its key pillars gears towards enhancing production and financial inclusion,” he said.
He further says the beneficiaries are the same people who mismanaged Emyooga funds but there is massive sensitization on the guideline and awareness on enterprise selection.
“Let us reach the community in the villages and preach the gospel of PDM and also try to achieve the objective of the program,” he adds.
Meanwhile, Resident City Commissioner, Lawrence Egole sounded a warning to political leaders against politicizing PDM like emyooga.
Handing over a new taxi to members of Lira municipality taxi operators SACCO, Egole said, they faced challenges in implementing emyooga programme due utterance by politicians that the money was a political package and people should not refund it.
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