Moyo
district has received 280 gadgets from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS)
to facilitate the implementation of the Parish Development Model (PDM).
The gadgets,
which included 100 tablets, 100 power banks, and 80 chargers, were distributed
to PDM Sacco chairpersons and the parish.
Catherine
Asianzo Riri, the Assistant Principal Secretary of Moyo district, who
represented the Chief Administrative Officer at the handover, noted that the
implementers of PDM had been struggling to complete tasks due to a lack
of gadgets.
Riri
believes that the availability of the tablets will improve the performance of
the PDM implementers, and urged the users to keep the gadgets well.
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Julius
Nyerere Ambama, the Assistant Resident District Commissioner of Moyo, while
handing over the gadgets to the beneficiaries urged the community to make good
use of one million Shillings given to them.
Ambama
appealed to leaders to help in changing the mindset of the population to invest
the money wisely, to reduce the poverty level in the district.
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According to
the 2024 census final report, Ma’di sub-region under which Moyo District falls
was the best performer in the PDM in Northern Uganda with 23 percent of
households already impacted by the program.
Sam Asusi,
the Secretary of Finance, Planning, and Production in Moyo district, commended
the implementers of PDM in the district to work even harder as a team, given
that they already have the tools to ease their work.
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PDM was
launched by President Yoweri Museveni in February 2022, as one of the
government’s multi-sectoral strategies meant to transform at least 17 million
Ugandans in approximately 3.5 million households from a subsistence economy to
a money economy.
The
revolving fund goes directly to the SACCO accounts in each parish, from which
households can borrow and invest in income-generating activities.