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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Katine in Soroti district The African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) in partnership with the Guardian News and Media and Barclays Bank, is delivering an integrated community based development project over three years in Katine sub-county within the district of Soroti. Here, residents live on just 50p a day. Katine is a sub-county with one of the worst health and living conditions in Uganda (Uganda population Census, 2002), where extreme poverty has been compounded by years of civil war and cattle rustling. 1 Issues of poverty and violence are exacerbated by the fact that Katine communities are unable to access the services provided by local government. In response to the aforementioned obstacles, the Katine Community Partnerships Project (KCPP) focuses on improving the quality of living for the 25,000 people in Katine. At the same time, the project provides readers of the Guardian with the chance to see how civil society project interventions work to achieve long-term community development. With a budget of £2.6 million over 3 years, the KCPP addresses the key constraints to sustainable community development by taking an integrated and holistic approach. The specific objectives are: � Improved community health � Improved access to quality primary education � Improved access to safe water, sanitation and hygiene � Improved income-generating (also referred to as improving livelihoods)* � Communities empowered to engage in local governance *FARM-Africa is supporting AMREF to provide technical support for the livelihoods component of the project. AMREF applies its wider strategic aims and best practices to its development approach in Katine. This is achieved through building the capacity of communities, strengthening systems of service delivery and undertaking operational research to develop, share, scale up and advocate for best policy and practice changes. The approach also ensures that the project components of health, water and sanitation, education, livelihoods and community empowerment work to re-enforce each other for integrated development. The KCPP is aligned to the overarching Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) - the Ugandan national framework for poverty eradication. This project contributes to Goals 2, 4 1 Cattle Rustling - or cattle raiding - is the act of stealing livestock. KCPP six monthly narrative report - October 2007 to March 2008 4
and 5 of the PEAP; (Goal 2: Increasing production, competitiveness and incomes, Goal 4: Human rights and governance, Goal 5: Human development). Goal 5 focuses on the importance of a well-educated, healthy and productive population as a prerequisite for developmental progress. The ultimate goal of the Uganda PEAP is to contribute to the United Nations’ eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) 2 . The other goals of the PEAP include macro-economic management and security, conflict resolution and disaster management, which are outside of the remit of the KCPP. (DFID in Uganda http://www.dfid.gov.uk/countries/africa/uganda.asp). The project targets children under five for health services, children in primary schools for education improvement and men and women for livelihood development and local political involvement. At AMREF UK, contracts with the project partners were drawn up, negotiated and signed with the Guardian and Barclays. A separate contract was signed with the sub-contracted partner of the project, FARM-Africa. A partnership manager was hired to co-ordinate and manage relationships in the UK and to support the team in Uganda. Much of the first six months of the KCPP have involved setting up the systems and processes to manage reader donations and to begin building relationships with these donors. AMREF UK established a partnership with DMP and then Valldata to manage the processing, banking and thanking of Katine reader donations and also set up the systems required to process online donations by adding the necessary functionality to the website. As part of AMREF UK’s responsibility to manage donor relationships AMREF sent the ‘Katine Newsletter’ to nearly 4,000 Katine donors who had asked to be kept informed of the project’s progress. In Uganda, the first three months focused on start-up phases and preparatory activities of the KCPP such as the implementation of key priorities that had been identified in consultation with communities and key stakeholders. A detailed needs-assessment along with two baseline studies were conducted as a means to ensure more accurate monitoring and evaluation of the outcomes and impacts of the KCPP. These included the community survey and the household baseline survey. The recruitment and induction of the now seventeen-member project implementation team took place at the start of the project. The team now includes a project manager, a project officer and a project assistant for all of the project areas bar the community empowerment component; although at the start of the project the full team was not on the ground, lacking a full time project manager and communications officer. Supporting positions for the project include monitoring and evaluation, communications, administration, accounts and information technology. All of the key personnel for the project are managed by the project manager, with AMREF Kampala Office, AMREF Nairobi Head Office and FARM-Africa providing technical support and guidance. The team shared resources in the existing Soroti office while 2 The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) – which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 – form a blueprint agreed to by all the world’s countries and all the world’s leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world’s poorest. - http://www.un.org/millenniumgoals/ KCPP six monthly narrative report - October 2007 to March 2008 5
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