DRDIP Uganda Updates

By Beatrice Ociru Obongi district is grappling with a challenge of access to energy for both domestic, commercial and institutional use. The district is not connected to either national grid or any private power distributor; hydro or thermal despite her proximity to the Nile River. Solar installation in Aliba Primary School, Obongi DRDIP’s Sustainable Environment and Natural Resource Management (SENRM) sub-component of: access to energy has addressed this challenge in schools and health centres where the project intervenes. Aliba Primary School is one of the beneficiaries of this project, the headteacher, Michael Koma says they have been facing challenges in access to energy and insecurity since the place would be very dark. He notes that the school was spending a lot of money in printing examinations because of high enrolment and general operations. The headteacher at Office during evening hours “Power is very relevant for a school as both pupils and the teaching staff use for readi...

By Beatrice Ociru The construction of the Outpatient Department and Maternity Ward by the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) through the World Bank funded, Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project(DRDIP) has improved access to health care services at Belameling Health center II in Obongi district. This Health Centre serves an estimated population of 20,224 people both refugees and host communities. The temporary structure before DRDIP intervened George Ogama, the in charge of Belameling says patients used to take long to recover due to high temperatures and disruption from leaking roofs which made the patients uncomfortable.   “It was very difficult to admit this big population in the temporary structures which were very small and hot making patients’ temperatures higher than the normal, hence delayed recovery” Ogama confesses. The DRDIP constructed maternity ward came in with water installations that now helps mothers clean up after delivery thus, providing privacy...

In the absence of rain there was too much dust causing flue as it penetrates through ventilations of students’ dormitories splattering allover beddings, thus posing several health risks to learners.   Ivan Ijjo, a grade three student of Ofua Seed Secondary School in the West Nile, Adjumani district shares the experience with Robert Owiny.   Students' Dometories contsructed by DRDIP at Ofua Seed School, Adjumani “When it would rain, the whole compound was always awash with sticky mud and again, staining our halls and classrooms”, Ijjo narrates during a visit to assess the changes caused by the implementation of social safeguards component of the Development Response to Displacement Impacts Project (DRDIP). During project execution, DRDIP a project under the Office of the Prime Minister complies with the Government of Uganda’s and World Bank’s regulatory framework s on e nvironmental, health, safety and social risk s to ensure that project activities do not result in to...