The Northern Uganda Resilience Initiative (NURI) is one of the three Royal Danish Embassy funded projects under the Uganda Program on Sustainable and Inclusive Development of the Economy (UPSIDE) for the period 2019-2022. 

NURI seeks to enhance resilience and equitable economic development for refugees and host communities in northern Uganda. Although NURI covers three thematic areas: Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA); Rural Infrastructure (RI); and Water Resources Management (WRM), AFARD implements the CSA component in Nebbi, Zombo and Pakwach districts. The aim of the CSA component is “to increase agricultural output of small-scale farmers and refugees.” 

Supporting 16,253 households organised in 615 farmer groups, the project has been able to support the production of strategic agro-enteprises with increased farm sized, adoption of better climate smart practices, and collective marketing of high quality products (worth UGX 2.1 billion in 2020 alone). VSLA savings increased to over UGX 1,8 billion thus enabling smallholder farmers access to agricultural loans.

Project Budget: UGX: 6,999,310,789

Donor: DANIDA