ICCO Bi-Annual Activity Report-2014

Introduction
ICCO and Kirk in Actie are supporting UCAA, KOPEIN, UJCC and TEWPA as theTeso-Karamoja cluster toimplement the Conflict transformation and democratization (CT&D) Project. The Year 2014 is the 2nd year of the project implementation. This is a report on UCAA activities of Jan-June 2014.

Project Activities
Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLA)
During the period Jan-june 2014, UCAA conducted 2 VSLA trainings one in Napak and Another in Katakwi districts. Each training had 10 participants as follows: Napak training had 5 males and 5 females all drawn from Ngoloriet Sub county, while Katakwi had 7 females and 3 males from Usuk sub county.

The training evaluation report indicate that participants liked the training because it was unique and enriching. Participants took it upon themselves to immediately start implementation of theskills acquired as soon as they get to their groups.

Training in Group formation,Community based monitoring and Evaluation (CBM&E)
UCAA conducted 2 trainings on CBM&E ,one in Katakwi and another one in Napak. Attendance at this workshop was 100% as follows: Katakwi 20 (8 males and 12 females) while Napak was 20 ( 9 males and 11 females).
The objective of the training on Group formation in Community Based Monitoring and Evaluation

1. To organize the people at the grass roots to learn and understand the budget process at local, District and National level
2. Make available skills of the people at the grassroots in data collection, carryout monitoring exercise and present reports of findings in sub-county dialogue meetings
3. Through dialogue meetings at various levels, seek actions to remedy the situation obtained
4. Develop a monitoring structure of budget monitoring committees at the grass roots for the continuous monitoring of utilization of budget resources
5. Assist the Budget monitoring committee develop follow up activity plan

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