DRDIP Uganda Updates

Three high level recommendations came out of the two-day visit that marked the beginning of this year’s World Bank Mission for the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP) in Uganda. Sub project sites in Kiryandongo district in the Bunyoro Sub region were jointly visited by representatives from the World Bank, Inspectorate of Government(IG), DRDIP project Staff from the Office of the Prime Minister and key district stakeholders. Mary Kebvin Akisa, the group CPMC  explains briquettes making to visiters While addressing a feedback meeting session at Kiryandongo district headquarters Monday 14th, February 2022, the World Bank Technical Team Lead (TTL) Fatima Naqvi advised on the need for DRDIP Uganda to strengthen sustainability efforts for the sub projects that are benefiting the host communities, noting that the additional funding majorly focuses on supporting the refugee communities. Ms Naqvi further emphasized the need for maximum integration of the different p

Mamu Samir (not his real name) a primary six pupil of Kena-Valley Primary school inside Bidibidi Refugee Settlement in Yumbe district cannot control his smiles as he glares constantly at the team from the Office of the Prime Minister alongside local leaders who paid a visit to his school hardly a month after the re-opening of schools owing to the effective COVID-19 preparedness by the Ministry of Education and Sports.   The visiting team were conducting an assessment of work done by contracted implementing partners(IPs) of the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP) in the West Nile Sub region. Kena Valley Primary School in Bidibidi Camp, Yumbe district On face value, you could think Samir is excited just to see the visitors, but a brief chat with the 14-year-old refugee child unlocks the truth. He is more awestricken by the new development at his school. Samir exposed the source of his contagious happiness to Robert Owiny. “Now I am sure of getting first grade i