Uganda Rural Development and Training Program – Home of Innovators in Education and Sustainable Development

Directorate of Education

URDT believes that training, education and information sharing are key ingredients to sustainable development programmes. URDT currently has 5 established education institutions that is URDT Girls School, URDT Tijhaar Community School Nkondo, URDT Community Schoool Kanyamiyaga, URDT Institute and African Rural University training young people between the ages of 6 – 30 years with over 3300…

Directorate of Epicenter Strategy

PreambleClearly, there is demand to apply and upscale URDT’s methodology to a larger population. Therefore, since 2012 URDT facilitates the establishment of community based epicentres (CBEs). Through its African Rural University (ARU), URDT has developed a new breed of 26 community development workers whom it deploys to support the founding and management of these epicentres.…

Directorate of Cooperate Service

Services are pertinent in an organization and for it to exist; it will always depend on services to enable its operations. Therefore for several years, URDT has run different sustainability projects in the organization and these have generated incomes which have aided running of some activities within the organization and especially the sustainability section like…

Rural Communication Development Program

This is the first truly community radio station in Uganda based in Kagadi Town Council of Kagadi district mid-western Uganda. KKCR is a product of the partnership between the communities in Greater Kibaale and URDT, an indigenous nongovernmental organization. KKCR is part of East African Community Media Programme (EACMP) initiated in 1992 after the RIO…

Mini Estates

Goal: To support the transformation of subsistence farmers into commercial farmersURDT was selected by the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) to pilot together with the farmers in Kibaale District the concept of value addition in agriculture and move subsistence farmers, especially women, to become commercial farmers.This Public Private Partnership project has 2…

African Rural University

URDT Girls’ School (URDTGS)

Tijhaar Community School Nkondo

URDT Community School Kanywamiyaga

African Rural University

ARU was launched in 2006. However, ARU was conceived as part of the URDT strategy for rural transformation in 1987.What did URDT aspire for? ARU as an Institution of Higher Learning to deal with strategic developmental issues that are embedded in the rural communities; The villages to act as social laboratories in which participation was…

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URDT Institute

Youth employability cannot be ignored in the search for sustainable development strategies Uganda Rural Development and Training Institute (URDT-I) is a vocational training institution based in Kagadi District. It was established in 1993 to deliver vocational skills and youth leadership development using a Visionary Approach to training that leads to a critical mass of all-round…

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URDT Girls’ School (URDTGS)

URDT Girls’ School uses the 2 generation approach whereby students and their parents learn together, develop a shared vision for their home, analyze their current situation, apply systems thinking, team learning, plan together and learn new skills. Alongside the national curriculum, the students get ‘change agent’ training to generate sustainable income, health, family cooperation, and…

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Tijhaar Community School Nkondo

The school was established in 2003 by a committed member of the Nkondo community. Sadly the founder passed away and the school had to close in 2005 due to managerial and financial problems. In 2006, thanks to the stamina of the students who remained teaching each other, the URDT decided to transform the school into…

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URDT Community School Kanywamiyaga

This school was started by a community member who desired to see community children accessing education. However in 2008, he could not run the school any more as the parent were to poor to pay for good educational standards.In 2008 URDT got a request to manage the school while the parents were part of the…

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11 Graduate at African Rural University Uganda’s Women’s University with degrees in Rural Development

African Rural University on 25th November, 2022 held its 8th graduation ceremony, where 11 students have been awarded with Bachelor’s degree in Rural development with an aim of contributing to African Renaissance through higher education. The 8th Graduation Ceremony for African Rural University that attracted distinguished guests from various destinations was held on Friday at ARU…

Uganda Rural Development and Training Institute Graduation Ceremonies in 18 Districts in Mid Western and Central Uganda.

Uganda Rural Development and Training Institute (URDT-I) conducted graduation Ceremonies for 9,933 young people trained under the Satellite Approach using the principle of Learn Work and Earn. The graduation ceremonies were launched at URDT main Campus in Kagadi District on 3rd September,2022 and thereafter to other Districts: Kibaale, Kakumiro, Kyenjojo, Kabarole, NtorokoBundibugyo, Kasese, Kamwenge, Kikuube,…

Engineers Without Boarders introduce UDDT Technology at URDT Campus

Bernd and Stephanie guiding the team during construction of the foundation. Photo by URDT. 19-7-2022. A team of three Engineers Without Boarders from the Republic of Germany arrived at Uganda Rural Development and Training Program (URDT) Campus on 18-07-2022. The purpose of the visit is to train the URDT-I graduates who are brick layers to…

Pioneer student at URDT Institute. I joined Uganda Rural Development and Training Institute (URDTI) in the year 2003 when I was a volunteer at Kagadi Kibaale Community Radio (KKCR) practicing news reading. Am among the pioneer students and by then the institute was called Institute of Business Vocation, and Media studies (IBVMS). By the time we started our…

Birungi B. Mark Programs officer Kagadi Kibaale Community Radio

I joined URDT Girls School in 2004 in Primary 5 when I was 13yrs. My home then was in a poor situation, living in a grass thatched house, we had poor health, education and everything was not okay. The school helped our family to come-up with a vision of a good house, health, education and…

Nyesige Safira

After URDT sending an epicenter manager in our Sub County, us as women are benefiting a lot. For example in the past, we used to fear attending big gatherings, we could not associate with the educated people but with the intervention and education by our epicenter manager, we have learnt a lot like now we…

Burora Sub County Women Testimony

I had information on the radio that was about the project that URDT is carrying out on cervical cancer screening, signs and symptoms and this team was to visit our health center 3. Given that i was already filling and experiencing some of these signs that were described on the radio, I had to visit…

Tumuhairwe Latecia