Following President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni’s PDM assessment tour in the Kigezi sub-region to assess the implementation of PDM activities, it was evidently realised that the Kigezi subregion has benefitted a lot from the ongoing Parish Development Model.
Dr. Ssozi Galabuzi, the head of the PDM secretariat, while presenting a report during the Kigezi sub-regional leaders meeting at Rukungiri Municipal Grounds on Thursday, February 13th, 2025, said that over 88,000 households in the Kigezi subregion under the Parish Development Model (PDM) program received 1 million.
Another PDM beneficiary, one Kenneth Ayesiga, a resident of Kizindiro Cell, Nyamirama town council, Kinkizi West County in Kanungu district, benefitted from the Parish Development Model and used the money to open a restaurant named Parish Develop Model Restaurant in Nyamirama town.
President Museveni visited Ayesiga’s piggery farm of 20 pigs, which he started using the profit made from the Parish Development Model Restaurant, applauding him with Ugx. 10 million for being creative and determined to create wealth using government support.
Angelo Nsereko, a dairy farmer with five dairy farms in Ruhare village, Ruhare Parish, Chachi Sub County, and Kisoro district, revealed that he earns enough money to cater for his children’s school fees without any handles. As a way of appreciating Nsereko, the president supported him with Ugx. 12 million and a tractor to boost his farming activities.
During the ongoing PDM assessment tour, President Museveni urged Ugandans to adopt a strategic mindset focused on wealth creation, emphasising the need for productivity that generates income and enables them to join the money economy.
On February 26, 2022, the Parish Development Model (PDM) was launched in Kibuku District to improve the incomes and welfare of Ugandans by bringing services closer to the people/wanainchi.
This was to be achieved by transitioning a large portion of the population currently living at a subsistence level into the money economy, essentially lifting them out of poverty by providing targeted support at the parish level, the lowest administrative unit in the country, and focusing on initiatives like agriculture, business development, and financial inclusion.
