Adjumani District Local Government

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The District Budget Conference for 2026/2027 is scheduled for Monday 10th November 2025 in the District Council Hall starting at 8:00am.

We have passed a budget of shs 49,372,995/= for the next financial year 2025/2026.

This is a slight reduction from the budget of the running financial year of shs 50,599,454,000/=.

The reduction is attributed to reduction in local revenue due to the ban on commercial charcoal trade and closure of projects like USMID -AF and DRDIP.

In the next FY, we shall also recruit staff to fill 166 positions.

Today, we hosted a team from Reach A Hand Uganda (RAHU) to deliberate on how to strengthen our cordial partnership over the years on creating advocacy on Sexual Reproductive Health Rights (SRHR) and Gender Issues for young people in Adjumani.

Photo credit: Reach A Hand Uganda.

We appreciate UN Women and Stanbic Africa Holdings Limited for strengthening financial inclusion for refugee women in Adjumani through a donation of 25 smartphones for financial digitisation of VSLAs, 133 reusable sanitary pads, 1250 fruit tree seedlings and 334 mama kits under the .

The Leadership Empowerment Access and Protection (LEAP) II project (2022-2025) implemented by UN Women through Whitaker Peace and Development Project aims to strengthen gender responsive humanitarian programing, enhance women's leadership and protection, and promote sustainable livelihoods for refugee and host communities.

The LEAP project targets 2990 beneficiaries from both the refugee and host communities. Whitaker Peace And Development Initiative has so far reached out to 829 through business support, 1171 VLSAs, 389 farmers through Climate Smart Agriculture and 441 under GAL.

This morning, we received a team from the National Information Technology Authority Uganda (NITA-U) who are in the district to enhance internet connectivity and promote digital inclusion for the host and refugee communities in Adjumani.

Adjumani is one of the 12 refugee hosting districts that will for the next two years benefit under the Uganda Digital Acceleration Project -GovNet (UDAP -GovNet) that seeks to establish 80 telecommunication masts and 24 telecentres across the country.

In Adjumani, the telecommunication mast will be set up in Nyumanzi Refugee Settlement and two telecentres will be established in Pagirinya and Maaji Refugee Settlements respectively.

The project is in line with the National Development Plan III and is funded by the World Bank. Led by NITA-U, other key stakeholders are OPM and UNHCR.

Here are copies of stories we contributed to the 4th Edition (15th -22nd April 2025) of the West Nile Today weekly newsletter on Apaa Land Conflict in the East Ma'di Wildlife Reserve and 23rd Peace Celebrations in Yumbe District on 12th April 2025.

We also shared a feature story on how refugee women in Adjumani are coping with mental health challenges.

Here is a summary of our budget for the running FY 2024/2025.

Please note that the draft budget for FY 2025/2026 is shs 49,372,995,000/=.

The budget reduction is mainly due to closure of projects like USMID -AF and DRDIP although these are expected to have phase II which is yet to be confirmed .

Here is an article on how fishing on River Nile can be boosted through harnessing .

Adjumani is blessed to be located on the east of River Nile. However, this advantage hasn't fully been utilised to boost socio economic development for not only the district but the Ma'di Sub Region.

Educate a girl today, Accelerate Gender Equality tomorrow!

On this International Women's Day, we urge all parents and guardians struggling to pay school fees and enroll their girls in S1 this year to register them in any USE school.

UNICEF through Enabel, Trailblazers Mentorship Foundation and Spotlight are running the Cash Plus programme model where parents and guardians will receive a modest cash assistance of shs 264,000/= to support them to keep their girls in school.

However, only those who are vulnerable and have attained 80% of school attendance will receive this cash assistance.

With an Inception meeting already conducted with stakeholders, UNICEF is currently doing verification of the potential beneficiaries of 5,000 girls from 7 districts.

This assistance is not a sponsorship!

Enroll your girl today!

Happy Women's Day!

Today, we joined the rest of the world to celebrate International Women's Day with stakeholders gathering in Dzaipi Sub County.

Together, with UN Women and Women's International Peace Centre we started a 5 year journey to create a transformed and sustainable community through a Local Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security.

The Local Action Plan seeks: to reduce all forms of conflicts and violence from 33% to 23%; to reduce poverty from 38% to 28% at all levels; to reduce GBV from 27% to 17% at all levels; and to improve governance and service delivery from 71% to 95%.

Let us all contribute towards a peaceful community where sustainable peace is not desired but experienced.

This morning, the district leadership convened a meeting with all health facility in charges to strategize how to bridge a funding gap following a halt of budget support from the United Nations Agency for International Development (USAID) partners.

This is critical for evading collapse of the health system and avoidable deaths.

In Adjumani, USAID has been mainly funding interventions in HIV/AIDs management, Laboratory, Tuberculosis and Leprosy through Infectious Disease Institute (IDI) and other partners in other thematic areas like Lutheran World Federation and Finn Church Aid.

This morning, we received 200 ICT devices from Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) under the Uganda Communications Universal Service and Access Fund (UCUSAF) project.

The devices have been given to households in Aliababa Village, Subbe Parish, Ofua Sub County.

We welcome the support for bridging the digital divide for the underserved communities.