WSF-KAPastoral Resilience &EMP

About this project

The proposed project is focused on responding to the challenges faced by pastoral and agro-pastoral women and men in Kotido District of Karamoja sub-region of Uganda, who live in chronic poverty, food, and income insecurity perpetuated by climate change and its injustices. Pastoral women and men are faced with Limited production and consumption of climate-resilient nutrient-dense foods, coupled with limited engagement in food system policy implementation. This has been exacerbated by the limited access to markets and value chain development services for crop and animal products, limited access to financial services, Knowledge gap, Weak capacity of local institutions and the private sector, and poor market systems. In the Kotido District of Karamoja, where the proposed project will be implemented, Poverty is still a major obstacle to socio-economic development, most especially in the semi-arid Karamoja sub-region located in north-eastern Uganda, standing at 66% (having increased from 61% in 2017) with an estimated population of 1.8 millionpeople . Additionally, only 30% of persons aged 10 years or above are literate, while 66% of the persons aged 15 years or above have no formal schooling background. A commensurate rise in armed criminality, in which acts of violence are increasingly orchestrated irrespective of community norms on the use of force, has severely impaired the region’s socio-economic development. The root to these lie in a combination of political, socioeconomic…

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Oxfam Novib · International NGO

Countries

Uganda

Sectors

Agricultural policy and administrative management

Published by Oxfam Novib to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 12 Oct 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: NL-KVK-27108436-A-07667-03:UG.

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