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Mayuge District celebrates Sanitation Week
Mayuge district today 28/March.2023 in Partnership with Living Water International celebrated Sanitation Week which was held at Bukatabira Primary School in Malongo Sub-County under the theme " Sanitation and Hygiene for all a key to Disease Prevention ".
Mayuge district Local government in collaboration with Options- Uganda,have held a stakeholders meeting today the 15th February 2023 on District costed implementation plans(CIP) for family planning in the District.
Uganda undertook a review of the first National costed implementation plan for family planning ending 2025, and part of the lessons learned from this CIP review by the Ministry of Health and partners is that implementation of the first CIP was left to central entities with less adaptations from Districts.
Rwenzori Rare Metals (RRM)is training/ orienting Members of the Grievance Management Committee of both the District and sub county Level in the District Council Hall.
This training comes after a recently concluded public hearing on environment and Social Impact Assessment of the Makuutu Rare Earth Project which generated a lot of issues and grievances .
There has been a Planning Meeting this afternoon in the District council Hall, between National Forestry Authority (NFA), Busoga Forest Company (BFC)and Mayuge District Local Government, to resolve a Road construction Conflict and Removal of Forest Encroachers .
The 3rd Deputy Prime Minister Rt. Hon Rukia Nakadama has today 18/ Nov/ 2022 Commissioned the ground breaking for the construction of Wairasa Seed School in Buyemba Parish-Wairasa sub county, which will be undertaken by CHRISTONE CONTRACTORS LTD , at a total cost of Ugx 3,073,389,296.
Today we had a Site Handover ceremony in Maumu Village-Busakira Sub county where Worldvision Uganda intends to build a Dream School.
The purpose of this Site Handover was to;
A Quarterly stakeholders monitoring exercise was today organized by Life Water International, an NGO implementing Water, sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program in partnership with Mayuge District Local Government.
The monitoring Team visited Lutaale Primary school where Life Water International has constructed 5 block of Drainable Latrines with 25 stances .These latrines can be easily emptied once they are full. The team as well Visited some of the boreholes constructed in Lutaale D”. It should be noted that each borehole serves 30 households in the community .
With over 6,000 smallholder farmers and average acreage of 1.5, Mayuge District is one of the leading producers of Cocoa in Uganda and East Africa.
The District priotised the production of Cocoa due to the deep fertile soils and favourable weather conditions that support commercial production of the crop.
With support from Swisscontact, the District has continued to build the capacity of Cocoa farmers through the on farm delivery of Cocoa specific extension services championed by the district Cocoa focal point person; Emmanuel Kawuzi Waiswa.
A highly successful farmer’s field day was held today 8th September 2022 at Mayuge District Demonstration site. The field day was organized by the Production Department with the aim of bringing together farmers and other stakeholders in the agricultural value chain for training on the best agricultural management practices.
The District Vice Chairperson Hon. Tasibula Peter Nkwanga, yesterday commissioned the District Projects that were implemented during Financial Year 2021-2022 which is in line with the monitoring and Evaluation Framework. The cost of all the commissioned Projects is 3 billion shillings.
