Who We Are
Busoga Consortium for Development
About Us
The Busoga Consortium for Development is a non-partisan development agency established by the sub region’s local governments to rally the people and friends of Busoga residing in Uganda and in the Diaspora to steer Busoga’s transformation.
The Consortium Program was conceived by H.E Edward Kiwannuka Ssekandi, Vice President of the Republic of Uganda after his election as 1st Board Chairman of the Forum on China Africa Local Government Cooperation held in Beijing in 2012. The forum that was run under the theme “Enhance Local Cooperation, Promote Common Development” inspired the Vice President to establish China Africa Friendship Association Uganda (CAFAU) through which as Patron, he championed the formation of the Busoga Consortium and other Consortia to translate the shared vision at the forum to the people of Busoga and other parts of Uganda.
BCD was then established in 2017, by the then 10 districts constituting the Busoga subregion, through a Memorandum of Understanding backed by their respective councils. The resultant MOU was endorsed by the Solicitor General as legally binding and consistent with the provisions of Uganda’s Constitution. The Busoga Consortium was formed to re-affirm that the development of Busoga shall only be a consequence of self-proclamation, self-insights and self-drive by those who live, own, and lead the political and productive assets in the subregion.
The Busoga Consortium is, therefore, built on a bottom-up model through a citizen-led and community-driven approach to development. Through the Consortium, and as illuminated in its development agenda, rather than starting from a point of needs and deficits, the people and friends of Busoga have identified their existing strengths and development potential as foundations for bolstering the socio-economic prosperity of the sub-region. The Consortium is moving away from a disorderly development history where the sub-region lacked a sustained and structured platform to bring together all stakeholders in their diversity to share experiences, develop a common agenda, motivate each other, resolve key sub-regional challenges, and facilitate an inclusive review of the progress of the region in relation to national and international development processes.