Sawlog Production Grant Scheme (SPGS) is an initiative of the Government of Uganda funded by the European Union, with counterpart financing from the Government of Uganda and implemented by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

The Scheme supports interested private sector investors to establish and manage commercial forest plantations through conditional and retrospective subsidy/grants (paid after planting and not upfront), as well as practical training and professional advice in the various techniques necessary to make tree planting profitable.

Since 2004, SPGS has supported establishment of close to 50,000 hectares of plantations for timber, poles and fuelwood. Beneficiaries of the project are small (15 ha≤100 ha), medium (≥101ha ≤500ha) and large scale (≥501 ha ≤3000ha) land holders, community groups who are supported with quality planting material (tree seedlings and or THE REPUBLIC OF UGANDA SAWLOG PRODUCTION GRANT SCHEME (SPGS) PHASE III EXPRESSION OF INTEREST BY NEW CLIENTS cuttings) and public and private institutions that are dependent on fuelwood who benefit by having woodlots established for them.

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