Kayunga District planning unit together with the Development Initiative held a three days capacity building workshop under the theme "strengthening District data system project" at Mingo hotel in Kayunga town council.
In attendance were Heads of Departments, District statistics committee, town clerks, SACAOs, CDOs, commercial officers and other technical staff.
This Project is piloted in only 2 Districts that's Kayunga and Masindi.
The Minister for Micro Finance hajji Haruna Kasolo visited the District in preparation for the inauguration ceremony of launching a 5 Year Strategic District plan for Islamic banking slated for 25th November 2023.
The President is expected to preside over the function.
In attendance were the District Kadhi and his Deputy, Deputy RDC, CAO, Technical staff, Directors of schools, Business partners, Investment partners among others.
Hon Madada outlined the main objective as empowering people financially with low interest rates and no collateral security required.
Kayunga District held a joint meeting with Emyooga District Task Force Committee together with a team from microfinance support center.
The purpose of the meeting was to check on interventions the country is implementing most especially Emyooga and to assess the progress and challenges of the program.
The Chairperson briefed the team about the status of Emyooga as follows 54 Saccos, 993 Emyooga associations and received 1,680,000, 000.Billion.
Recoveries stand at 580,000,000 and the total 1,100,000,000.is still in arrears.
