Establishing a better quality of life for returning IDPs in Uganda :

CEASOP Helps Families Rebuild Their Lives and Support Members of the Community

CEASOP operates in northern Uganda and serves the districts of Lira, Apach, and Oyam through activities originally focused on those living in internally displaced persons (IDP) camps.  After the IDP camps closed, CEASOP began helping vulnerable families resettle and start new lives.  Over the past decade or more of armed conflict, the majority of the people from these camps lost everything.  Farming activities which were already at a subsistence level were largely abandoned.  In spite of initial efforts to address the situation, production levels remained low and placed the former IDP camp members at great risk.

CEASOP’s has formed 167 self help groups comprised of 20 people each. The USADF grant will help CEASOP work directly with 53 of the self help groups by providing them with initial livestock, veterinary assistance, agricultural inputs and extension services.  CEASOP will also use the grant to build its own management capacity in order to improve the services it delivers to these self help groups.  Each self help group who receives support will be required to make an in-kind payment by ‘twinning’ with another self help group to pass on livestock offspring and seeds so they can begin to improve their situation as well.                                   

The USADF Difference:

USADF is able to work in the post-conflict area to create jobs and pull people out of poverty.  In time, the initial self-help groups will become self-sufficient and able to work with other community members so that they may have access to the same economic benefits.  This is a grassroots, participatory approach to development in which community members invest back into their communities, improving the lives of others.  

..........For more information about USADF projects in Uganda, click here.

The United States African Development Foundation (USADF) is a United States Government agency dedicated to expanding access to economic opportunity in Africa. Currently USADF operates in 20 African nations. Over the past 25 years, USADF has directly funded nearly 1,500 African projects representing in excess of $150 million in support of African enterprises and local African communities.

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