Our History

The Busoga Consortium for Development is a non-partisan platform established to rally the people and friends of Busoga to steer the sub-region’s socio-economic development.

Details To realise this ambition, the Consortium has developed this Agenda as a guiding policy and programmatic framework to prioritise the development interventions essential to the sub-region’s transformation ambitions. This Agenda was developed through a consultative process, with all key stakeholders reached for their information, inputs and ownership.

As a Consortium, we are indebted to many stakeholders, including the Office of the Prime Minister, the Minis- try of Local Government, political and religious leaders in Busoga, Obwa Kyabazinga, business and industrial players and the people of Busoga for their generous insights and useful submissions that enriched the interventions proposed herein. The Patron of the Consortium Rt. Hon. Rebecca A. Kadaga appreciates the leadership of H.E. Edward Kiwanuka Ssekandi for conceiving the idea of the Consortium under the auspices of the Forum on China-Af rica Local Government Cooperation. In the same way, I appreciate the District Governors from Busoga and their Local Government Councils for swiftly embracing the idea of the Consortium when they passed resolutions and signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) which provided the legal basis for the Consortium.

I equally thank the Secretariat headed by Mr. Mula Anthony for tirelessly mobilising the leadership, the people in Busoga, the Central Government, development partners and local institutions to embrace the idea of the Busoga Consortium. In a special way, I thank the BDA Technical Team, headed by Mr. Kitamirike Emmanuel and Ambassador Agnes Kalibala, for putting together this Development Agenda. With the finalisation of the Development Agenda, I implore all stakeholders to embrace the proposed interventions and make commitments to play their part towards the realisation of the development aspirations.

While the onus is on the Secretariat to lead the implementation efforts, it is incumbent upon all of us as stake- holders in the sub-region to commit to contributing morally, financially and physically towards the Agenda. The context to which the BDA refers is worrying across all development indicators and, thus, requires our collective efforts and resources to help our people emerge from the fangs of poverty, disease and ignorance. On a broader level, the implementation of this BDA will reposition the sub-region as a key player in the national economy, a position it once held with its agriculture and industrial stature.

We are happy to work with the Central Government as a key stakeholder to realise the aspirations of this BDA. We have shared this development framework with the National Planning Authority, the Minister of Local Government, the Prime Minster of Uganda, the Vice President and the President of the Republic of Uganda for support and ownership. We are happy that all these institutions and/or officials have contributed their inputs and committed to supporting its implementation.

We, therefore, look forward to fruitful engagements with the Central Government to realise many of the pro- posed development interventions. Finally, it is important to emphasise that the people of Busoga remain the primary stakeholders to inspire themselves and galvanise their collective energies and resources to ensure the success of this initiative.

Business Location

Old Parliamentary Building, Kampala, Uganda

Jinja District