Projects in Uganda

Agriculture

Agribusiness and Economic Development

The Ugandan Agribusiness and Economic Development project aims to empower households—especially youth, women and farmers—to pursue new economic opportunities and achieve improved food and nutrition security. The project objectives are:

Increase the capacity to apply improved money management practices
Develop youth entrepreneurial potential
Strengthen capacity to implement income-generating activities (IGAs)
Increase households' adoption of nutritious diets and food choices

Volunteers collaborate with the local government, non-governmental organizations, community-based organizations, farmers’ cooperatives and faith-based organizations. With these partners, they engage in activities that increase income, reduce malnutrition and poverty, facilitate youth entrepreneurship, promote income-generating activities, and support organizational development.

In addition, Volunteers help form and enhance village savings and loan associations (VSLA) and other micro-credit entities in their communities. They strengthen VSLA member skills in business skills, post-harvest management, value addition, digital literacy, market linkage for agriculture products, farm management, and agricultural productivity.

Agriculture Volunteers support nutrition-sensitization campaigns, school feeding activities, fruit tree planting, promotion of biofortified crops, creation of kitchen gardens, introduction of improved gardening techniques, and small irrigation and water harvesting schemes for farmers.

Agribusiness Volunteers use the Peace Corps approach to development, which promotes community participation, capacity strengthening and person-to-person engagements.

To learn more about this project, check out our Project Brochure.

Education

The Early Childhood Literacy Project improves quality early childhood literacy in alignment with Ugandan Ministry of Education and Sports strategic objectives. The project goal is to support pupils to attain literacy skills to improve learning outcomes in primary schools.

To learn more about this project, check out our Project Brochure.

Health

Guided by President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), Peace Corps Office of Global Health (OGHH) and the Uganda Ministry of Health Sector Strategic Plan (HSSP), the Health project aims at ending preventable child deaths and achieving a healthy (HIV-free) generation by 2030 through the following objectives:

Increase the knowledge and skills of child caregivers to end preventable child (age 0-5) deaths and keep them healthy.
Improve communities support to people living with HIV/AIDS, including children and adolescents, to promote their well-being.
Increase demand for HIV testing among priority populations to remain HIV-free.
Improve community health service providers’ and/or school staff’s skills to address health needs of people living with HIV/AIDS.

Health Volunteers work together with their counterparts in their respective communities promoting maternal and child health best practices and activities. Their work reduces child and maternal mortality through support for immunization, nutrition, malaria prevention, exclusive breastfeeding, and water, sanitation and hygiene.

Volunteers support people living with HIV/AIDS—including children and adolescents—through nutrition education, psychosocial support, referral to antiretroviral therapy (ART) and adherence support. They strengthen the capacity of community health workers to provide youth-friendly services. Volunteers contribute to HIV prevention through demand creation for targeted HIV testing, and referral and linkages to improve accelerated healthy behaviors and achieve an HIV-free generation.

To learn more about this project, check out our Project Brochure.

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