Connect Rural Uganda - leaving noone behind in the Digital era - UNCDF

About this project

The proposed contribution is called Connect Rural Uganda and is a five-year program, 2019-2024 (mid-2019 to mid- 2024) aiming to, through increased digitalization, empower rural communities with particular focus on refugees, women and girls, youths and smallholder farmers/agri-businesses. The target groups are of course overlapping. For market development small and medium sized enterprises is an important target group. The programme aims to reach vulnerable populations wherefor refugees and host communities in Northern Uganda are in focus; a region where a large majority is multidimesionally poor (and women and youth extremely vulnerable), where rights are being violated and where access to quality service is strained from the large influx of refugees in recent years. Despite the Ugandan Governments progressive refugee policy it is unlikely that the refugees will return to their countries of origin in the short /medium term. Therefore, programming of interventions must consider practical solutions towards integration within Uganda. The scoping of the program and the focus on the three sectors agriculture, education and health, builds on an analysis of current contextual challenges to rural development and assessment of key sector areas to which digital innovations and technology can be leveraged to unlock sustainable change in livelihoods in refugee areas. Examples of specified outcomes for the program are for example that farmers have improved access to information on agric…

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Sweden · Government

Countries

Uganda

Sectors

Information and communication technology (ICT)Agricultural developmentAgricultural financial servicesEducation policy and administrative managementHealth policy and administrative managementII.2. CommunicationsIII.1.a. AgricultureI.1.a. Education, level unspecifiedI.2.a. Health, general

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Sweden

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Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency

Published by Sweden to the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI), last updated 2 Nov 2026 and imported automatically. IATI identifier: SE-0-SE-6-11620.

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