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Case Study: Africa
Uganda - PRDP
After the guns fell silent in 2006, the Ugandan government established a post-conflict
strategy called the Peace, Recovery and Development Plan (PRDP). Over the years
since, many projects have been initiated and completed with the involvement of
Hydraform.
recovery and development
A plan for peace,
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s a part of the PRDP strategy, Hydraform offered an
innovative opportunity to address many of the points in
the government’s plan, which was devised specifically
to support the following key areas:
• strengthening the state
• rebuilding and empowering communities
• revitalising the economy
• peace-building and reconciliation
• disaster relief and assistance.
The plan also included elimination of terrorist threat to
stability, building of security and access roads, water,
revival and re-enhancement of education, emergency
relief, health and immunisation, farming for food security
and income generation as well as the re-education and
orientation of the minds and hearts of the population
towards peace and development rather than war.
A case in point involved the landslides triggered by
heavy rains in early 2010 that displaced more than
4 000 people in a short period. The Office of the Prime
Minister (OPM) in Uganda, which is responsible for
disaster management, responded firstly by relocating
the affected people to a more stable geographic area,
and secondly by implementing a housing plan.
Since the OPM had already been using the Hydraform
Building System in other government intervention
projects, it was a natural choice here too. Under the
guidance of Hydraform, the Ugandan company G1
Group Ltd executed the project to build over 60 houses.
Since the Hydraform machines will remain in the
community after the project is complete, the contractor
was mandated to train different youth groups in block
production and artisan skills during the construction
phase of the project. The idea is to avail the unemployed
community members of the opportunity to continue
with commercial block production and building long
after the need for disaster relief ends.