Appropriate Technologies
Teaching and utilizing state-of-the-art appropriate technology techniques
on its campus, including solar electricity, solar drying, biogas systems,
energy-efficient stoves, Ventilated Improved Pit latrines, animal traction
and waste conversion.
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ICTs/Computer Training Programme
The Computer Center provides the first-ever exposure to computers for most
of its visitors. Through access and training, the Center makes computer
literacy possible for nearly a hundred new people each year.
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Human Rights Office
URDT's human rights programme offers education, training and advocacy on human rights issues.
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Community Radio Station
On the air 365 days a year, 16 hours per day, KKCR broadcasts thousands of educational
programmes each year, reaching a listenership of 4 million people in a 50-mile radius around Kagadi.
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Land Rights Office
Providing information and conflict resolution services on land ownership and tenure
matters to the poor people in the region, most of whom are squatters on their
ancestral lands that are owned by absentee landlords.
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Microcredit Fund
Providing parents and guardians of Girls' School students with access to
microcredit so that they can implement the plans they have devised in their
strategic visioning processes.
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Sustainable Agriculture
URDT operates a demonstration farm that employs best practices in organic farming,
natural pest and disease control, micro-irrigation, mushroom cultivation,
land use management and environmental development and protection.
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Programme Overview
Our mission of teaching people how to think strategically about their own development, training them to become "visionaries" and "creators" of their own futures, is personified in the education and training conducted through extension work and our campus-based programmes.
Developing Lives, Families and Communities
URDT trains people who live on less than $1 per day to take a visionary, entrepreneurial approach to developing their own lives, families and communities. URDT promotes "integrated" rural development, teaching people to address the interconnectedness of health, education, financial self-sufficiency, civic participation and human/gender rights within their lives. URDT's entrepreneurial, integrated development approach results in much more sustainable development, both within individuals and throughout the region.
Each of our programmes is a feeder into the other as they contribute to URDT's overall institution mission of enabling people to create for themselves peace, freedom, prosperity, health and happiness.
News from the African Rural University
You can always find the latest information about all of our programmes, as well as updates from the Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme on our News Blog.