We hosted Dr Abdirahman Muse Hassan the previous day to sensitize on #Bukedi Development Consortium Bukedi Development Consortium (BUDECO) Limited .She shared #Ekibalo the strategic plan with stakeholders to appreciate and embrace. She later visited Masafu Export Zone site to see the development progress there TradeMark Africa

Today Busia Area Communities Federation(BUACOFE ) has distributed another batch of 58 heifers to beneficiaries to economically empower families and boost livelihood of the children in the communities their support. The distribution was presided over by Dabani Subcounty Chairperson at Buyengo P/S ChildFund Uganda

During a forum with women leaders in Busia, organized by the Equal Opportunities Commission, Commissioner Kamya Julius highlighted critical social issues affecting the district. He reported that teenage pregnancy has risen to 30%, surpassing the national average of 25%, while the

Today we joined the Equal Opportunities Commission Equal Opportunities Commission in an engagement with women leaders in Busia to dialogue on inclusivity, equality and discrimination. The forum provided opportunity for District Chairperson Wasike Stephen Mugeni to propose some reforms for equal opportunities

Earlier today,EASSI Eastern Africa Sub Region & Reproductive Health Uganda under PowerToYouthUg conducted a stakeholders dialogue on issues relating to SGBV and harmful practices against young people.The Probation Officer called on stakeholders to have collective efforts towards supporting young people positively

We had a team from Ministry of Health- Uganda this afternoon to engage the district leadership on routine immunization and upcoming immunization campaigns on malaria and #yellow fever. The team will be engaging health workers over the Sam starting tomorrow.

Council convened for a session today for laying of budget estimates for the financial year 2025/2026. The draft budget of UGX 55,400,297,000 was laid by the secretary of finance,Peter Nakeri including the budget performance. The estimates were referred to committees for scrutiny

Today we conducted two site meetings for the ongoing works of construction of administration blocks at Masafu Sub County valued at UGX178,950,781 and Tiira Town Council valued at UGX81,406,017. The works were reviewed and progress rates established at 75% and 60% respectively

Today we joined Obwene'ngo Bwa Bugwe, local leaders and Baganda in Kabaka's saza of Busia, Tororo and Malaba for Kabaka's birthday run 2025. #KabakaBirthdayRun2025 #EndHivBu2030 @BugandaOfficial Airtel Uganda

Today ASHWA 🇺🇬 conducted a district inception meeting for Community led monitoring activities under The Global Fund aiming at enhancing community engagement in health service delivery by empowering affected populations to monitor and advocate for improved malaria and #TB services

Today we held a Yellow Fever immunization coordination meeting to review day one implementation and fix identified gaps to ensure that we hit our target.The campaign was launched the previous day targeting the population of 1 to 60 years,running from 10th to 16th April 2025

Earlier today EASSI Eastern Africa Sub Region under PowerToYouthUg consortium joined district Technical Working Group #TWG for a quarterly meeting where EASSI Deputy Executive Director,Joseline Komuhangi called on the District leadership to aid in consolidating PTY achievements Power to You(th) Global

Today we joined Busia Women Crossborder Traders Cooperative and ACWICT for official launch of “Enhancing Digital Business Opportunities for youths in Eastern Uganda” programme that intends to address youth unemployment,underemployment and economic marginalization in 4 districts

Earlier today Rays of Hope Hospice Jinja Official had an entry engagement with district stakeholders on their interventions in overcoming access barriers to health care and providing much needed care for people with life limiting diseases.They pledged to support the district’s health care system

Today,we commemorated International women’s day at Madibira Primary School. The event was presided over by hon. Minister of State for Fisheries (MAAIF) Uganda as the chief guest.She called on women and men to embrace gender equality without abusing it and equally commended Government of Uganda for promoting gender equality

We received two giant refrigerators from Ministry of Health- Uganda to support cold chain services at the district headquarters. These were installed at the district medical stores.

Today, RDC,Namagogwe Hajira led a delegation from Busia District Local Government ,Uganda to participate in the 5th Edition of #BusiaCrossBorderRun2025 in the County Government of Busia 040 at Busia Polytecnic,Kenya where participants ran across the Busia-Kenya border for 15km,10Km and 5km respectively for fitness &fun

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As we strive to improve health service delivery in the district, today we had a performance review for third quarter where we engaged our partners in the health sector led by Mbale Area Federation of Communities #MAFOC on how to achieve immunization coverage by 95% by April,2025

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