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1.The Buganda Kingdom's history dates over 700 years ago, with its king, the Kabaka, as its supreme ruler and the Lukiiko as its Parliament.

Uganda's existence originates from the 1900 Agreement the British Colonialists made with the Buganda Kingdom. This Agreement in essence created a federal union of states of the Uganda Protectorate, the Buganda Kingdom being one, under the Governorship of Britain. Up to 1967, the Buganda Kingdom, under Uganda's federal administrative structure, retained its original internal administrative, cultural and traditional set up and mechanisms and was responsible for the development of its people.

The Buganda Kingdom forms the Central Region of Uganda wit the population of approximately 5 million and hosting the national capital, Kampala.

2. Through the centuries of its existence, Buganda was the land of plenty, endowed with an excellent climate and fertile soils, culminating into the abundance of food and cash crops and a wide range of naturally growing vegetables and fruits. To optimally exploit this environment, Buganda had an advanced developmental guidance structure, established around a well -organized monarchy, which was highly respected and obeyed. Hard work and honesty were culturally considered obvious attributes to be found in every family. Family and village cohesion and togetherness were at the heart of the cherished human, family and traditional values and blossoming prosperity.

3. Sadly, the twenty year of political turmoil between 1966 and 1986 threw Buganda into the wilderness. Buganda lost her kingdom and her cherished cultural/traditional developmental guidance and leadership and, with it, human, family and traditional values collapsed along with the hard working morale of its people. While the population increased, food production declined, shambas for cash crops shrink, environmental degradation stepped in and quality of life started nose-diving. To correct the past, the Monarchy was restored in 1993. Because of the severe damage inflicted on the Kingdom over the 20 years, the once prosperous and powerful Buganda Kingdom is now deeply embedded in perpetual poverty, increasing immorality, malnutrition, and food insecurity. As we enter the new millennium, the challenge of the Monarchy is to reverse this sorry state of affairs in the kingdom. This calls for concerted effort and the revival of the successful centuries old traditional management practices and traits blended with modern management systems under the present context.

4. The Restored Kingdom of Buganda and its Monarchy has the mission of the meaningful resuscitation of human, family and traditional values coupled with a sustained improvement in the social and economical welfare of its people. It is therefore, committed at initiating and complementing viable efforts for the development of the people especially those efforts seeking to uplift the well-being of the poor, the needy and the destitute.

5. The Kingdom has accordingly, formulated a 5-year mass mobilization, guidance and facilitative development drive, the Royal Development Drive (RDD) (2000-2005) for launching the Buganda Kingdom and its people into the new millennium with the focus of effective restoration of values, and rejuvenation of social and economic development under the theme: "Development through hard work and honesty." The RDD is the new development mechanism of a participatory approach whereby every one, at each level in the Kingdom, from the Crown down to the village chiefs and the homesteads, have a clearly defined role to play and targets to achieve under this programme. The RDD set up has been based on self-help principles, popular mobilization, developmental guidance and limited facilitation.

6. The principal objectives of RDD are the following:

1. Leading a sustained fight against poverty, unhygienic living, food insecurity and immorality in the Kingdom;

 

2. Mass mobilization and guidance of the populace for development by re-kindling the hardworking self-help, collective effort and ethical attributes;

 

3. Transformation of the peasant enterprises from the present subsistence orientation to modern commercialized ones;

 

4. Promotion of health education and support services;

 

5. Promotion and enhancement of literacy;

 

6. Establishment of effective and efficient produce processing and marketing systems; and

 

7. Promotion and encouragement of a savings and investment culture among the masses.

7. Overall, the RDD's output is the dynamic, dignified and well developed community enjoying an adequate and dignified quality of life and a high level of welfare. Its specific outputs are the following:

1. Moral revival and rekindled hardwork and honesty spirit among the Buganda communities.

 

2. Improved standards of living among homesteads in Buganda in form of better sanitation, food security and sufficient income levels.

 

3. Improved community infrastructure and revival of the "Bulungi Bwansi" self help spirit.

 

4. Availability of micro finance support for small enterprise development through the Royal Micro Finance Institution.

 

5. Availability of market information and marketing facilities for domestic products through the Central Processing and Marketing services Company (CPMS) Ltd.

 

6. Availability of health education and support services.

 

7. Improved literacy levels.

4. PERFORMANCE INDICATORS

8. RDD's key performance indicators include the following:

1. Percentage number of rural households with an average standard of living.

 

2. Number of feeder roads, schools, community water and health facilities rehabilitated through the "Bulungi Bwansi" spirit.

 

3. Outreach levels and performance indicators (e.g. repayment rate, drop-out rate, loan losses self sufficiency, etc) of the Royal micro finance institution.

 

4. Level of economic activity within the kingdom.

 

5. Flow of market information within the Kingdom and efficiency of Central Processing and Marketing Services Ltd.

 

6. Facilities for health education.

 

7. Number and performance of literacy programmes.

5. TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION

9. RDD will be implemented through the following three specific programmes:

10. RAV 2005 is an integrated rural based community development programme that has been designed to revive the dying traditional African Village System whereby a village was a comprehensive integrated unit composed of self-sustaining homes linked with well maintained commercial infrastructure and everybody being loyal to the central administrative guidance from the King. Within the home and the village, culture and tradition helped to instill and maintain human values and morals in society as a whole.

11. RAV 2005 tries to blend the past efficient social-economic development practices and traits with the present modern management systems to fight the society ills of UNHYGIENIC LIVING, MALNUTRITION, FOOD INSECURITY, POVERTY and IMMORALITY in the implementation of the following projects:

• The Model Home and Model Village Project

12. This is an integrated living condition improvement project that aims at improving the domestic quality of life for the people in the kingdom through:

1. setting up of well-structured and hygienic homesteads with well laid and planned farm-land, and with homes linked up with adequate and well maintained social and economic village communural infrastructure;
2. ensuring self sufficiency in both nutritious food and domestic income; and
3. ensuring adequacy of domestic/rural energy and environment protection.

The project activities include:

1. training in model home set up as per BUCADEF standard model home design;
2. facilitating setting up of demonstration model homes at village level;
3. promotion of home hygiene and nutrition education; and
4. promotion of energy efficient schemes and wood fuel tree planting.

The project's expected outputs are improved health and hygiene, better housing, more households which are food secure and have income sources, and increasing wood fuel tree acreage.

• Food Security Project

13. The project purpose is to facilitate increased food production through provision of loan seed capital and promotion of modern farming methods focusing on food security and commercial agriculture. The project involves teaching/demonstrating modern farming practices using improved seeds of major legumes and cereal crops and post harvest management. This will be through workshops and field demonstrations using contact farmers. Promotion of growing of hunger crops like cassava, yams and other root crops will also be facilitated.

• Domestic Income Improvement Project

14. This will target small-scale enterprises set up to improve domestic income. Training in micro enterprise management and imparting of vocational skills in various micro-sectors will also be facilitated. These will range from metal fabrication, weaving, tailoring, carpentry, etc.

• Village Self-help Community "bulungi bwansi" Schemes

15. Purpose of the project is to revive the old "bulungi bwansi" self help spirit among the communities in order to maintain and improve community infrastructure including roads water sources, schools and health centers. The project is to be implemented through the organization structure set up by the "Bulungi Bwansi" line ministry of the Buganda government.

• Development Training and Mobilization, Leadership development, and Ethics promotion schemes

16. The project focuses on effective community mobilization and sensitization for development and moral revival, through advocacy programmes in the mass media e.g. radio, news papers and community demonstrations. Community capacity building by training of local leaders and mass mobilizers will be facilitated. The strategy is to rejuvenate the peoples' spirit of loyalty to the King and take advantage of the community's good reception of the Kingdom's development programmes, to promote community participation.

• Health Education and Support Project

17. The aim of the project is to promote health education on pertinent health issues including implementation of immunisation campaigns, reproductive education, and sensitisation on epidermics. The project will also facilitate Health improvement initiatives within the Kingdom.

• Literacy improvement Project

18. The project will support literacy programs aimed at improving school enrollment levels among the school-going-age population of the kingdom.

19. The mission is to set up a self sustaining micro finance institution that will provide savings and micro credit services to the economically active rural poor especially women and youth in Buganda region through mobilization of savings and provision of credit to properly formulated and managed micro-enterprises using the village banking methodology.

20. The project objective is to instill the saving habit among women and youth; to empower women and youth to manage income generating micro-enterprises; and to stimulate economic activities among less privileged communities. The project which is already in its first year of operation has its overall approach and activities as per village banking methodology. Branches are to be established throughout the region.

21. This private sector commercially run public Liability Company has been established to instill a well organized marketing strategy and specifically linking financially lucrative rural production with national, regional and international markets.

22. Through its wholly owned company, the Buganda Investment and Commercial Undertakings Ltd (BICUL), the Buganda Kingdom will hold equity in CPMS Ltd not in excess of 25% availing at least 75% of the shares to private individual groups and companies, local and foreign, interested to invest in CPMS Ltd.

23. The functions of CPMS Ltd will include, but not be limited to the following:

1. Mobilization of the needed equity;
2. Mobilization of rural producers/farmers and organizing them in viable producer groups /associations;
3. Developing of producer groups /associations in entrepreneurship;
4. Identification of commercially lucrative products to be produced in various areas;
5. The securing of appropriate technical assistance from Agricultural Research Organizations;
6. The arrangement of proper agricultural inputs;
7. The securing of local/regional/international produce supply contracts;
8. The securing of contracts with producer groups;
9. The putting in place of the requisite post-harvest processing facilities; and
10. The establishment of efficient marketing systems with all their needed logistics.

24. RDD will be implemented through the existing establishments coupled with contracted technical assistance and voluntary services. Its recurrent expenditures will largely be financed by the Mengo Administration. However, the administration intends to mobilize the programme's startup capital expenditures estimated at approximately US$ 4,000,000 from governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, donor agencies, private companies and individuals. Of the total startup capital, US$ 1,500,000 is estimated for institutional and community capacity building while

US$ 2,500,000 is for CPMS Ltd equity.

A1. RDD will be implemented through the existing establishments coupled with contracted technical assistance and voluntary services. Further facilitation will be required inform of start up capital expenditure. Successful implementation of the RDD will, therefore, need support from governmental organizations, non-governmental organizations, donor agencies, private companies and individuals especially in the following key areas: -

• Office equipment to set up the Programme Secretariat/Planning and Coordination Unit
• Programme Coordination and Supervisory Transport
• Publication Machinery

• Financial assistance towards mobilization and advocacy through various information systems including radio, T.V, bulletin boards, brochures, newspapers, etc.
• Financial assistance towards training workshops, seminars and demonstrations.
• Financial support for loan seed capital

• Technical and financial support for institutional capacity building and mobilization of loan capital.

• Technical Expertise in commercial rural economy, small-medium scale commercial agro-farming, agro-industrial processing, regional and international produce marketing.

• Equity participation up to 75%

• Initial operational facilities and logistics

A2. The basic RDD Capital Cost Estimate is as summarized hereunder: