Mengo plans development

Aug 06, 2001

Mengo has created four new departments to speedily implement the 10-year Buganda Kingdom Development Strategy (BKDS)

By Josephine Maseruka Mengo has created four new departments to speedily implement the 10-year Buganda Kingdom Development Strategy (BKDS) that aims at making the kingdom self-sustaining to improve the lives of subjects. The new departments include, the Central Processing and Marketing Services, which aim at creating a ready market for the produce. The move is intended to encourage people in Buganda to produce more to improve on their household incomes. The Royal Micro-Finance is geared towards giving loans to people especially in rural areas to improve on their incomes. Other departments are the Buganda Development Commission, a corporate body, which will formulate policies and guidelines to regulate the implementation of BKDS. The commission will mobilise, advise and co-ordinate funding portfolios for effective investment of resources in the kingdom. The fourth department, is a database where all information would be stored and obtained. Eng. Herbert Kibuuka on Tuesday told participants at a one-day workshop on the BKDS that the development initiative was unique because it was based on self-help, community mobilisation and developmental guidance. He said BKDS had been based on coercion tenets of the monarchy coupled with limited facilitation. Kibuuka urged the public to support the development initiative through active, voluntary and self-help participation irrespective of status, ethnicity or other differences. Benefits of the BKDS include improved standards of living among homesteads in the kingdom, community infrastructure and the revival of Bulungi bwa nsi, a self-help spirit, revived morality and rekindled hard work and honesty among Baganda.

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