ONC Monitoring Visit Reveals PDM Impact In Luweero

In the quiet villages of Bamunanika in Luweero district, the Parish Development Model is steadily rewriting the fortunes of ordinary residents, and a recent monitoring visit by the Office of the National Chairman has put two of those success stories into sharp focus.

The ONC Regional Coordinator for Luweero sub-region, Wasswa Abdulkarim Tamale, toured the area as part of an ongoing programme to track how beneficiaries are using the government funds. What he found in Kyampisi parish offered fresh evidence that the initiative is delivering tangible results at the household level.

Among those he met was Busulwa Label, a young man from Muyenga village who received one million shillings under the programme and channelled it into poultry farming in 2024. He started with one hundred chickens. Today, his flock has grown to six hundred birds, and he speaks of the venture with the confidence of someone who has watched a modest investment mature into a thriving enterprise. For a youth in a region where employment opportunities remain limited, the growth represents more than numbers. It is a path to independence.

A short distance away, in the same parish, the coordinator visited Noah Segawa of Muyenga zone, whose story carries its own weight. Segawa, a person with disability and a mechanic by trade, chose to look beyond his workshop when his one million shillings arrived. He invested the funds in fertilisers for his coffee plantations in Kikonda Kiteme, a decision that has since paid off as the gardens yield well and the proceeds keep his children in school.

Yet Segawa’s account came with an appeal. While grateful for the support that has changed his circumstances, he urged the government to increase the share of PDM funds allocated to persons with disabilities at the parish level to thirty percent, arguing that a larger allocation would allow more people in his situation to break free from poverty and contribute to their communities.

His call points to a broader conversation around the programme, which channels funds directly to households at the parish level with the aim of moving families from subsistence living into income-generating ventures.

For groups that have historically been left at the margins, the question of fair allocation remains central to the model’s promise.

As the monitoring exercise continues across Luweero, the experiences of beneficiaries like Busulwa and Segawa offer both encouragement and direction, showing what the programme can achieve while reminding policymakers of the adjustments that could widen its reach in the years ahead.

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