HANDOVER OF NAADS MOTOCYCLES

Kamwenge District Local Government having received thirteen motorcycles for use in Naads program implementation. it was therefore time to the deliver them to the responsible persons. The function that took place on Thursday 14^th/NOV/2013 .At 10:00 and was graced occasionally.kamwenge district having 15 sub counties and one town council therefore 13 sub counties received the motorcycles

LCV chairman and the DNC addressing the S/C naads cordinators

 

Members present was the chairperson LCV, DNC, CAO, HEADS OF DEPARTMENTS,DEC MEMBERS,RDC,DISO AND THE SUB COUNTY NAADS COORDINATORS.

Each sub county has received a motorcycle apart from Mahyoro And Nkoma which already have.

Yamaha monocycles with registration UDX number plate have a fully parked Toolbox, Helmet, Two Keys, an operational manual and photocopy of the logbook and delivered to S/C NAADS coordinators for effective delivery of extension services to farmers in the Sub counties meanwhile the monocycles have to be used in line with the provisions of the memorandum of understanding signed by the district for the implementation of NAADS programme.

LCV chairman handing over to a sub county chief

In his words the RDC cautioned the S/c NAADS coordinators to use the monocycles for the purpose there intended to be used for and to ensure proper maintenance of them.

He wished them success in using the motorcycles.

 

HARD WORK PAYS

 

kabuga primary school

 

 

After the essay, poem, art and painting competition that was conducted by RIC-NET between the months of June and August 2013 in Kamwenge district it was the time to reward every school that participated in this region.

a pupil from kanara primary receives her certificate

Every school that participated received results and certificates. Participants were rewarded certificates of participation and copies of the education magazines that showcased work of the best performers in the Rwenzori region. In Kamwenge district the RICNET e-society center staff visited three schools (Kabuga, Kanara and Ntara Christian primary schools in the two sub counties of Kibale and Kitagwenda.

Below are the photos for the visited schools

 

h/teacher ntara cgristrian reading out some of the education magazines that were delivered to him

kanara primary pupils in a happy and jovial mood

KAMWENGE DISTRICT E-SOCIETY CENTER SUSTAINABILITY MEETING.

The meeting took place on Wednesday 23^{rd October.2013 at the district headquarters in the Deputy CAO’s office. Members who were present was the RIC-NET staffs headed by the Programmes Manager, Systems Administrator, Video Documentations Officer and the Center ICT Officer among others. On the part of the District, there was the Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, Chief Finance Officer, District Speaker and also the District Executive Committee Member. The main concern of the meeting was to draw the road map of E-centres operations starting January 2014}

And to discuss about the sustainability of the E-society resource center which is a community District ICT hub apoint that is used by citizens to access, share and disseminate information on local governance and service delivery using ICTs.

This HIVOS-EU funded "enhancing civic competence for social accountability" project that was set up on the 17th September 2012 under public private partnership strategy in Kamwenge district given its objectives of building resident capacity to disseminate information through the use of online resources, given the fact that every project is time bound, it was therefore important to note and lay strategies for the continued operation of this project that ends on 31st December 2013.The two parties embarked on seeing ways on how the center will be sustained.



PAS MR bahemuka levy

The Chief Administrative Officer said that the District is in the process of not only sustaining the center but rather this extending ICT facility and make it a department of its own and the District will recruit an ICT office r looking forward the budget estimates required to run the center for the year 2014 which totaled up to eleven million, eight hundred thousand (11,800,000). The two parties also embarked on how the budget is going to be cost shared as the District staffs committed to take up some items within the budget like monthly internet subscription and antivirus amounting to 2,300,000/= while RIC-NET committed to website hosting and updating as discussions went on Kamwenge.


D'speaker Gerald twebaze

 The District speaker Hon: Gerald Twebaze, promised to have further discussions in the council meetings for approval.