Strengthening and Promoting Agricultural Interventions With a Social Protection Lens - TCP/UGA/3603
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Despite the significant transformation of Uganda’s economy and prevailing peace, the country’s economic growth has been fluctuating at a declining rate since 2008-2009, registering its lowest growth rate of 4.8 percent in the financial year from 2013 to 2014. Given the current status of the economy, GDP growth is not currently expected to perform above these levels. In addition, poverty, vulnerability and income inequalities continue to affect a large section of Uganda’s population, with over 19.7 percent still living below the poverty line and 43.3 percent still insecure and vulnerableto poverty. Despite the significant role that social protection can play in helping the vulnerable to build their resilience, many of the agricultural interventions implemented in Uganda do not adequately address the challenge of poverty from a social protection perspective. Indeed, there is a limited capacity and understanding of the role social protection in the agricultural sector, with food and nutrition security interventions aimed at the poor often implemented in isolation by different stakeholders and, as a result, poorlycoordinated.