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Uganda

Overview

Uganda’s abundant natural resources, tropical climate, rich soils and well-distributed rainfall provide an ideal environment for its agricultural sector, which employs 80 percent of the country’s workforce.

The country’s hospitable environment also makes two cropping seasons per year possible for most staple food crops. Although subsistence farming currently dominates agriculture in Uganda, the sector still has great potential to drive major economic growth and lift millions of people out of poverty.

On The Ground

Projects

 

TechnoServe Coalition for Smallholder Sourcing

The TechnoServe Coalition for Smallholder Sourcing is dedicated to generating evidence on innovations in smallholder sourcing that improve outcomes for farmers and companies, as well as promoting broad-based adoption of effective innovations.

Partners

Gulu Agricultural Development Company, IDinsight, Plexus Cotton Mozambique, SAN-JFS

Tags

Africa, Mozambique, Uganda
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East Africa Dairy Development

The East Africa Dairy Development (EADD) program is designed to boost the milk yields and incomes of small-scale farmers so they can lift their families and communities out of poverty. Funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and implemented in partnership with Heifer International, the second phase of EADD aims to help 136,000 smallholder farming families in Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania sustainably improve their livelihoods by 2018, while stimulating income growth for an additional 400,000 secondary beneficiaries.

Partners

African Breeders Services, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Heifer International, International Livestock Research Institute, World Agroforestry Centre

Tags

Africa, Tanzania, Uganda
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Project Nurture

A partnership with The Coca-Cola Company and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Project Nurture aimed to help more than 50,000 small-scale mango and passion fruit farmers in Kenya and Uganda double their fruit incomes. TechnoServe and its partners worked with farmers to identify new market opportunities, improve productivity and develop strong farmer business groups.

Partners

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, The Coca-Cola Company

Tags

Kenya, Uganda
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Strengthening Rural Youth Development through Enterprise

TechnoServe is partnering with The MasterCard Foundation to help rural young people ages 18 to 30 in East Africa transition to economic independence.

Partners

MasterCard Foundation

Tags

Africa, Entrepreneurship, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda
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Innovations in Outcome Measurement

Proven tools, methodologies and approaches that drive accurate and consistent outcome measurement remain a key challenge across international agricultural development. In partnership with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, TechnoServe’s Innovation in Outcome Measurement (IOM) project aims to identify breakthrough innovations capable of transforming agriculture and to develop a framework for scaling these innovations for business use. IOM is working to identify and test accurate, consistent and cost-effective measurement tools and methodologies for evaluating the outcomes of agricultural projects. The project also aims to identify the evidence needed by a range of relevant stakeholders to drive larger scale adoption of innovative agriculture technologies.

Partners

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Tags

Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda
 

Conservation Cotton Initiative

With support from luxury clothing brand Edun, TechnoServe launched the Conservation Cotton Initiative in 2011. The first phase of the program benefitted an estimated 59,745 people from 2011 to 2013 and managed to establish 150 producer business groups to better link farmers to markets. Farmers saw an increase in net income of 132 percent. Building on the success of the first phase of the program, phase two was launched in 2014 with support from EDUN, SIDA and the Rabobank Foundation. The second phase of the program holistically addresses market system constraints in cotton and rotational crop value chains via technical and business skill training, access to finance, input service and market linkage strengthening– with a stronger focus on improving women's economic empowerment and embedding sustainability for business service providers and producer business groups.

Partners

Edun, Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency Sida

Tags

Uganda
 

Girls’ Apprenticeship Program

In Uganda women make up three out of every five people who are unemployed, and urban youth are particularly disadvantaged. In partnership with Citi Foundation, TechnoServe implemented a year-long program to address employability issues facing young women in the Kampala area. The Girl's Apprenticeship Program (GAP) built on previous entrepreneurship projects in the country, providing 60 girls with three- to five-month apprenticeships with successful local business women. At the end of the project, 83 percent of participants were able to become workforce entrants, either by finding paid employment or starting their own business.

Partners

Citi Foundation

Tags

Uganda

Blog Posts

December 13, 2018

Combating Youth Unemployment through Apprenticeship

Citi Foundation and TechnoServe are working together to reduce youth unemployment in Uganda by teaching young women the knowledge and skills to start their own businesses.

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June 21, 2018

Eyes in the Sky: How Drones and Satellites Can Transform African Agriculture

What if every farmer knew exactly what each of her plants needed—the amount of water, the quantity and formula of fertilizer, the type of pesticide—at any given moment? This is the promise of precision agriculture, in which micro-level data is gathered by drones or satellites and used to enhance decision-making on the farm.

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March 29, 2018

Investing in Women makes Business Sense in Uganda

Recognizing that women make up more than half of Uganda's agricultural labor force, AB InBev partnered with TechnoServe to help women farmers access the agricultural and business knowledge they need to build profitable farms and a sustainable supply chain for AB InBev subsidiaries in the country.

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Contact

TechnoServe Uganda

2nd Floor, Plot 11
Buganda Road
Kampala, Uganda

Tel: +256 414 234 843
Fax: +256 414 234 844

Meralyn Mungereza

Country Manager

mmungereza@tns.org

Resources

Downloads

IOM: Eyes in the Sky for African Agriculture, Water Resources, and Urban Planning (pdf)

In this case study, TechnoServe's Innovations in Outcome Measurement (IOM) program explores how advances in drone-assisted imaging and mapping services can bring new income and efficiency to economic development in East Africa.

Project Nurture: Partnering for Business Opportunity and Development Impact (pdf)

Prepared by the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School, this report examines how Project Nurture demonstrates the potential for building sustainable and inclusive value chains through cross-sector partnerships.

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