For the last five years, the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) has been working towards improving development and welfare of Ugandans. Through its four-pillar programmes of human security (which involves promotion of grassroots development projects in rural areas), addressing the global agenda (of climate change, infectious diseases and terrorism), reducing poverty through equitable growth, and improving governance, JICA has proved a great development partner in many Uganda’s key economic and social sectors. This is realised especially in education and human resource training, health, energy, transport, and agriculture.

JICA provides technical cooperation and other kinds of aid to promote the economic and social development in developing countries. JICA’s activities in Uganda include provision of clean water and sanitation in rural areas, assisting in maternal health care and microfinance projects financing women groups and handicrafts. This is common in upcountry areas like Masaka.

JICA has also embraced a new vision of “Inclusive and Dynamic Development” that caters for the global agenda on clean water, climate change, food supplies and infectious diseases; reducing poverty through equitable growth; achieving human security; and improving governance through policy and systems reforms.

The new JICA aims at supporting self-initiated efforts that will result in a self-reinforcing cycle of poverty reduction and economic growth. JICA seeks to further its partnerships with local governments, universities, NGOs, private sector, and citizens interested in international cooperation, and works as a bridge between Japan and developing countries.

JICA gives bilateral aid in form of technical cooperation, ODA loan and grant aid. The aid is in form of soft loans having 25% grant element. The assistance is directly given to developing countries’ governments.

JICA has supported and is supporting a variety of projects in Uganda.

Education      

JICA has proved one of the key partners in Uganda’s education sector. Vocational and polytechnic training institutions, universities and schools have received Japanese technical assistance in form of infrastructural development, scholastic materials and finance.

Nakawa Vocational Training Institute is one of such educational institutions that train young people to acquire practical skills in promotion of the notion of self-employment in them. The institute helps school dropouts to gain vocational skills in building, woodwork, metal work, motor vehicle mechanics and electronics to enable them create employment for themselves. Other institutions that have benefited from JICA education support include Makerere University.

Envisaging the failure rate of between 40% and 60% in 2002 in mathematics and science subjects at lower secondary school level (UCE exams) in Uganda, JICA began the Secondary School Science and Mathematics Teachers (SESEMAT) Project to refresh teachers’ teaching methods and knowledge continuously. The efforts are geared towards strengthening the teaching and love for science subjects in schools. The project has so far covered Mbale, Pallisa, Busia, Luwero, Nakaseke, Nakasongola, Arua, Nebbi, Masindi, Hoima, Nakapiripirit and Moroto districts.

Health

Japanese medical volunteers are offering their services in central and western Uganda particularly in Bushenyi and Masindi districts in conjunction with the Ministry of Local Government. Through grant aid to health facilities JICA has rehabilitated 6 referral hospitals and 27 health centres in eastern Uganda.

In the fight against infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS and malaria, JICA has provided equipment for infectious disease control. By 2006 Japan had given Uganda cold chains worth US$18,200 each year since 2001.

Providing clean water to rural areas, fighting maternal mortality rate and improving people’s sanitation JICA is developing water resources and management to protect the environment. 

Agriculture

This is yet another sector where JICA runs a number of projects to contribute to food security and help farmers boost their household incomes through improved farming. The human security pillar incorporates agriculture since seven in every 10 Ugandans are engaged in agriculture.

In this sector JICA has partnerships with the Ministry of Agriculture to fund the Sustainable Irrigation Agricultural Development (SIAD) project, New Rice for Africa (NERICA) Project and NARO in a bid to improve agricultural productivity.

With JICA aid SIAD received Shs6.3 billion to increase rice production in 22 districts in eastern Uganda. SIAD aims at helping farmers grow rice in wetlands without destroying them. The pilot project is going on in Kiteigalwa and Bupala villages in Buwunga sub-county, Bugiri district. JICA partners with Doho Irrigation Scheme in supporting irrigation schemes for small scale private farmers in eastern Uganda.

Through Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteers, JICA has trained Ugandan farmers on better rice farming methods. JICA is collaborating with the Ministry of Agriculture and other relevant institutions like National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) and Namulonge Agricultural and Animal Research Institute, to improve production, processing and marketing of organic food.

JICA has been dispatching agricultural specialists to teach farmers to provide guidance on NERICA cultivation methods and training on the manufacture of threshing equipment in cooperation with NGOs. In 2002, Uganda’s cultivation area of NERICA was only about 1,500 hectares, but it’s more than 35,000 hectares today.

Energy and transportation

JICA has been funding a number rural electrification projects. The projects undertaken by the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development include Njeru-Kayunga-Baale, Jinja-Budondo-Mbulamuti, Wabigalo-Mijeera, and Hoima-Munteme distribution substations. JICA extended the Switchgear of Njeru substation and funded construction of a new substation at Kayunga. Other power networks which JICA co-funded with the government of Uganda are Kyabirukwa–Kikagati–Kyamate in western Uganda and Masaka-Bukakata.

JICA has also supported Greater Kampala’s road network. Japan implemented Grant Aid Projects such as improvement of traffic flow in Kampala city at US$ 7.0 million.

 By funding energy projects and road construction, agricultural projects, human resource development and health care, Japan is making a statement that a country achieves development by prioritising these sectors in its planning and budgeting processes.

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