President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pledged increased funding for the Parish Development Model (PDM), targeting urban and town parishes with larger populations and higher demand for support.
Speaking in Makindye Ssabagabo on July 9, 2025, during the third day of his PDM performance tour, the President acknowledged the need to revise the current uniform allocation of UGX 100 million per parish annually. The funds are intended to support 100 households with UGX 1 million each for income-generating activities.
“This UGX 100 million is just the beginning,” President Museveni said. “We are going to put more money and increase the amount disbursed to these urban PDM parishes where there are many people. This money is yours. My advice is, don’t let anyone play around with it.”
The President made the remarks while visiting Lillian Nagawa, a successful PDM beneficiary from Kaazi Village, Busabala Parish, who received UGX 1 million in April 2024. Initially venturing into piggery, she shifted to poultry farming after a swine flu outbreak. She now rears over 200 chickens and six goats.
Nagawa revealed she earned UGX 1.6 million from selling broilers during Eid and reinvested the profits in expanding her livestock project. “I plan to have 20,000 chickens, more goats, and, if possible, cows because I know how to take care of them,” she said.
She also urged Ugandans to take the PDM seriously, calling it a “lifeline” for low-income earners.
President Museveni praised her resilience and entrepreneurial vision, describing her story as proof of the PDM’s potential when well-utilized. “I’m very happy to be here to join you and to see that you’re proceeding well with the Parish Development Model,” he said. “I’m also impressed by the level of uptake and utilization of PDM Funds in Makindye Ssabagabo.”
To boost her growing enterprise, President Museveni donated UGX 10 million to Ms. Nagawa and promised a modern poultry house to support her operations.
He also extended UGX 10 million to ten other PDM beneficiaries in Busabala Parish (UGX 1 million each) and allocated UGX 12 million to help the local SACCO purchase a three-wheeled tuk-tuk to ease transport and business activities.
The President emphasized that government initiatives like PDM and Emyooga are designed to empower communities and free Ugandans from dependency and exploitative lending systems.
“If we handle this money very well, you will find that in five years, you will have UGX 800 million, and in ten years, it will be UGX 1.6 billion in your parish bank,” he explained.
While affirming the importance of roads and other infrastructure, President Museveni stressed that true transformation happens at the household level. “You can have a tarmac road for 60 years, but poor people can still live beside it,” he said. “That is why the NRM said, on top of development, let us add another word—wealth.”
He encouraged Ugandans to embrace commercial agriculture, services, and manufacturing as viable paths to prosperity.
Nagawa thanked the President for his grassroots approach and commitment to improving livelihoods directly at the community level.
