Uganda

Uganda is the country with the most refugees in Africa. More than 1.4 million people live in the refugee settlements in the north and southwest of the country. The majority of them come from Southern Sudan.

The Ugandan refugee policy allows newly arriving refugees to take up employment and set up businesses. A piece of land is made available to the refugees, but important prerequisites as suitable seed and plant material, knowledge of modern production technology and marketing opportunities are lacking. Not all refugees can or want to farm.

Support to agrarian based local economic development

The projects aims at enhancing agrarian based local economic development in Northern Uganda. The intervention is planned for 11 months, from the 09.2018 until the 07.2019. In this context, we are looking for one international and two Ugandan experts who would each work for 11 months on the project. Duty station for all of them would be the city of Gulu.

The overall objective of the project of which this contract will be a part is as follows: to contribute to a competitive, profitable, job-intensive, gender-responsive and environmentally-sustainable agricultural sector in Uganda, in order to alleviate poverty and improve food and nutrition security.

The Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) mandated the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH with the implementation of the global program ‘Promotion of nutrition-sensitive potato value chains in East Africa’. The project runs from 01/2016 to 06/2021 in two countries, namely Kenya and Uganda. In Kenya the implementation has already begun whereas the implementation for Uganda is planned to begin in October 2017.