Programme co-ordinator Northern Uganda Human Rights Partnership George Pelle explained that the consultation meeting was meant to seek Acholi cultural chiefs’ feedback on the new National Land Policy, especially in regard to their customary land tenure system and know on how the Acholi manage and utilise their customary land. Mr Pelle explained that “under the new National land policy, government, has pledged Shs54b for Acholi sub-region to support the sketch mapping of land boundaries and planting trees on the boundary as they have done in Teso and Lango sub-region.”
Lakini MaendeleoVijijini inafahamu kwamba, kwa upande mmoja tayari serikali imeanza kutekeleza suala la ufadhili wa masomo ya elimu ya juu kwa wanafunzi wa kike wanaofanya vizuri katika masomo ya sayansi, utaratibu ambao umeanza kutumika katika mwaka 2017/2018. Utaratibu huo ni kupitia Mfuko wa Udhamini wa Kumbukumbu ya Mwalimu Julius Nyerere unaosimamiwa na Benki Kuu ya Tanzania (BoT), ambao ulitangaza mapema kutoa nafasi za udhamini (scholarships) ili kuongeza hamasa na ufaulu kwa wanafunzi wa kike hapa nchini katika masomo ya Hisabati na Sayansi. Taarifa kamili hii hapa: