Government of Uganda and UNDP sign financing agreement for new climate fund to restore wetlands and build community resilience

Wednesday, 23rd August, 2017, Kampala, Uganda - The Government of Uganda and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) have today signed a financing agreement for the Green Climate Fund (GCF) project to restore degraded wetlands, improve ecosystems, strengthen climate information and early warning systems....

Private Sector called upon to support refugees during the Uganda Solidarity Summit

Kampala - Members of the Private Sector have been asked to match up the public sector’s efforts towards supporting refugees. The call was made by Mr. Patrick Bitature, the Chairperson of Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) during the Uganda Solidarity Summit’s Private Sector Side Event focusing on the...

Uganda’s Solidarity Summit for Refugees raises over USD350m

Kampala - On 21st and 22nd June 2017, the world gathered in Uganda to stand in solidarity with the country as it hosts over 1 million refugees. This was during the Uganda Solidarity Summit on refugees. The summit, hosted by H.E President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Antonio...

Stronger District Local Governments are key for refugees hosting districts – Uganda Solidarity Summit Side Event on Local Government

Kampala - The UNDP Country Director, Ms. Almaz Gebru says strengthening the capacity of district local governments is key to the sustainability of Uganda’s progressive refugee hosting model. Ms. Gebru observed that districts are at the forefront of hosting refugees, including maintaining peaceful co-existence of...

Stronger District Local Governments are key for refugees hosting districts – Uganda Solidarity Summit Side Event on Local Government

Kampala - The UNDP Country Director, Ms. Almaz Gebru says strengthening the capacity of district local governments is key to the sustainability of Uganda’s progressive refugee hosting model. Ms. Gebru observed that districts are at the forefront of hosting refugees, including maintaining peaceful co-existence of...

Fast track financing solutions for biodiversity conservation - UNDP Uganda Country Director says

Entebbe - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Director, Ms. Almaz Gebru has tasked nations to fast track finding solutions to biodiversity financing as one of the pathways to sustainable development. Ms. Gebru said that the cost of depleted plant and animal species will be so high and the...

Strengthening refugee space in Uganda - UNDP convenes dialogue with leaders of refugee hosting districts

KAMPALA – Uganda shall not build walls to keep out refugees, Hon. Hilary Onek, the Minister for Disaster Preparedness and Refugees has affirmed. He made this affirmation during the opening of the first-ever dialogue between district and national leaders from Uganda’s 12 refugee hosting districts. These districts...

Communities take charge of their own development in Maracha

MARACHA - In Maracha’s Mundru sub county, a lot of children stay home after completing primary school. This is due to lack of school fees and also the long distances to secondary schools.

Youth develop Uganda’s first customised weather information application

Kampala - A team of young innovators have won Uganda’s first weather hackathon competition. The young innovators under their group Agrigap, won the weather hackathon after three days of rigorous work to develop an application that would ease dissemination and utilisation of weather information in Uganda. The...

Uganda’s National Human Development Report recognised at the 2016 Awards for Excellence in Human Development Reporting for outstanding outreach and stakeholder engagement

New York, 6 December 2016 - Uganda’s 2015 National Human Development Report has been announced as one of the four winners of the 2016 Awards for Excellence in Human Development Reporting. This was announced by the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) during the 2016 Awards for Excellence in Human...

A film for Northern Uganda

As part of activities to mark the UN Month, UNDP Uganda together with the Office of the Prime Minister will host the official screening of the film for Northern Uganda. The screening will be held on Thursday, 20th October 2016 at Century Cinema in Kampala. Please find the full length film here.    About the film...

Private Sector and UNDP discuss opportunities in refugee settlements and the Songhai Development Model, during a post Uganda Solidarity Summit meeting

Kampala - A post Uganda Solidarity Summit conversation on Private sector engagement in refugee hosting districts was has called on members of the private sector to take advantage of the opportunities that come with the having refugees in the country. The meeting organised by the United Nations Development...

UNDP to fund audit of Uganda’s protected areas

Entebbe – The United Nations Development Fund (UNDP) has committed USD 100,000 to a catalytic fund intended to attract private sector investment needed to complement traditional sources of conservation capital such as public funding and philanthropy, negatively impacted by the global economic downturn. ...