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UN HABITAT Housing Project For Uganda

Uganda is to benefit from a UN-HABITAT low cost Housing Project o be implemented at Mpumudde, in Jinja Municipality. This project aims at empowering urban women entrepreneurs through housing development and land rights.

The project will have multiple interventions by providing funds to improve businesses and linking them with access secure tenure (land and/or housing) that will also act as collateral/security for the loans. It will also include provision of utilities such as water, sanitation, electricity and infrastructure to benefit up to 200 people in the first phase. The two year pilot project will be implemented from 2004.

In the implementation of the project, the High Commission will coordinate the relationship between UN-HABITAT and relevant Government and Non-Governmental offices in Uganda, negotiate with UN-HABITAT to provide a UN-HABITAT local officer in Uganda, and liaise with relevant offices in UN-HABITAT to provide relevant services to the proposed project.

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