Gabula said that Busoga kingdom has a bottom-top approach system, of rallying communities to involve themselves in economic transformation initiatives, from the village clan heads all through to the royal chiefs’ cabinets.
The Kyabazinga
of Busoga, HRH Gabula Nadiope IV, has commissioned the “Neyendeire”
Development Initiative-NDI, aimed at spearheading women-led development drives
in Busoga Kingdom.
NDI, a
consortium of different women-led village development and morality instilling
groups, was first launched by First Lady Janet Museveni in 2016 under the
leadership of the current patron, Dorothy Kisaka, the Executive Director of
KCCA.
The initiative
empowers women with skills in acceptable children upbringing values, education,
food security, farming, and primary healthcare initiatives, aimed at empowering
grassroots households with both economic empowerment and acceptable sanitation
practices.
NDI has
since formed a sacco, where interested parties can easily acquire friendly
credit facilities to engage themselves in small-scale startups, which Gabula
says are essential in ending poverty within the Busoga sub-region.
Speaking at the launch on Friday, Gabula said that,
NDI’s homestead nursery approach of enhancing development, is the magic bullet
towards the realization of improved household incomes since it encompasses all the
drivers of empowering beneficiary communities ranging from the basic areas of
food security, education and general health wellbeing.
//cue in:
“iffe nga obwa’kyabazinga…
Cue out…mu’nsonga edhe’mpiya,”.
Gabula
also said that Busoga kingdom has a bottom-top approach system, of rallying
communities to involve themselves in economic transformation
initiatives, from the village clan heads all through to the royal chiefs’
cabinets.
He further
rallied NDI founders to foster the inclusion of men and youths in the quest to
enable unified development within the target communities.
//cue in: “khida ku’nsanusa ihno…
Cue out…baila kumulamwa,”.
Kisaka says that under the initiative, women are tipped on the different soft
skills of ending domestic violence within their homes, through offering both
moral and financial support to their spouses, some of whom are overwhelmed with
the burden of single-handedly fending for their households and instead resort
to violence as solace during times of financial crisis.
Kisaka further notes that NDI member groups are
often mobilized to embrace government-led economic empowerment initiatives like
the recently rolled out Emyooga fund, which has since enabled most of them to
boost their enterprises.
