Minister Okello Engola urges Oyam residents to be patience about PDM.

11 April 2023, 8:05 am

SHINE FM REPORTER

State Minister for Labour, Employment and Industrial Relations, Charles Okello Engola has called upon residents of Oyam district to be patience about delays of Parish Development Model [PDM] money.

Speaking to Shine Fm on Phone, The minister Okello Engola said the PDM is one of the best among many programmes the Government initiated to eradicate household poverty.

He noted that people are embracing the program but added that people need to be patience as government fulfills their roles of disbursing up to 100m into parish Sacco.

The minister further advised civil servants, political, religious and cultural leaders in Oyam to closely monitor the implementation of the programme to ensure that it registers success after five years. President Yoweri officially launched the PDM in February 2022.

The PDM aims at moving households still trapped in the subsistence economy to the money economy by emphasising agricultural value-chain development to increase commercial production.

Under PDM, each of the 10, 594 parishes in Uganda is expected to receive Shs 100 million every financial year to operationalise the Parish Revolving Fund [PRF] as one way of empowering communities to engage in commercial enterprises such as coffee growing, piggery, and poultry keeping among several others.

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