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Dr. Mwalimu Musheshe

Mwalimu Musheshe is co-founder of the Uganda Rural Development and Training Programmme (URDT) He is also founder of African Rural University and other institutions especially for unprivileged girl child, like the URDT Girls School, URDT Institute, Nkondo Secondary School and Kanywamiyaga Primary school. In partnership with the communities of Kagadi, he founded the Kagadi Kibaale Community Radio, KKCR 91.7. He sought to address the missing link in development programmes, the merger of functional education, training and participatory action research using the principles of creating and systems thinking. With his work he has changed how academics, policy makers, and business people approach rural development issues. (He has over 40 year of experience in this field)

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About Us

URDT was founded to address the missing link in development programmes, the merger of: truly functional education; consciousness and conscience raising; skills training; rural development interventions with the intent of empowering marginalized people living in rural communities in Uganda.
Since 1987, URDT has evolved, applied and tested a rural development methodology based on the principles of the creative process and systems thinking.
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Vision

A learning organization and center for reflection and development that has participatory and interactive professional management that also enhances support from communities, volunteers, donors and government partners

Mission

Enable the people of Uganda to recognize and embody common vision, values and work together to create for themselves peace, prosperity freedom, health and happiness as they discover that are key to their own development.

Values & Virtues

1-Forgiving, 2 -Humility, 3-Integrity, 4 -Kindness, 5-Moral excellence, 6-Perseverance, 7-Respect, 8 -Tolerance, 9-Sharing, 10-Voluntarism.

Outreach

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Years of Service since 1987

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Districts & Refugee Settlement reached

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students accessed Education From our 2 schools

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youth skilled in vocational and soft skills

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youth already in work

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Young people assessed by DIT/UVTAB

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Epicenter Managers graduated from ARU

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House hold use the visionary approach, practice climate smart agriculture and mainstream gender at that level

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Trees planted

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House hold are food secure.

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Programs aired to 4,000,000+ listeners

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Women screened in for cervical cancer

Working Premises

  1. The people of Uganda, like the people world over, are key to their own development.
  2. Lasting change can come only if people shift from reacting or adapting to events and circumstances to being the creators of events and circumstances.
  3. People who share a common vision can transcend traditional barriers and prejudices caused by tribal, religious, political and gender differences and work together to achieve that which is truly important to them all.
  4. People have innate power and wisdom, which they can tap, to transform the quality of their lives and that of their communities.
  5. Training, education and information sharing and key and strategic components of the rural transformation programme.

Our latest News & Impact

Young women learning to look beyond their current reality and consciously create the future they want through the Visionary Approach.
27Sep

Young women learning to look beyond their current reality and consciously create the future they want through the Visionary Approach.

Kiiza Nobert News | URDT Institute

On the 24th of September, 2026 at URDT-I LAB 1, a total of 25 young women training at URDT campus…

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URDT Hosts RIWAH Exchange Visit on Water Harvesting and Organic Farming
21Sep

URDT Hosts RIWAH Exchange Visit on Water Harvesting and Organic Farming

Kiiza Nobert URDT

Farmers under the Right to Access Affordable Water Harvesting for Smallholder Farmers in Uganda and Tanzania (RIWAH) project have hosted…

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URDT-I Artisans Review Curriculum to Equip Young Women with Market-Ready Skills
21Sep

URDT-I Artisans Review Curriculum to Equip Young Women with Market-Ready Skills

Kiiza Nobert News | URDT Institute

In a bid to equip young women with relevant, market-driven skills and improve their transition into employment and sustainable enterprises,…

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Impact Stories

  • The Epicenter Strategy

    The Epicenter Strategy In Burora Subcounty

    Clearly, there is a demand to apply and upscale URDT’s methodology to a larger population.

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    The Epicenter Strategy In Burora Subcounty

  • Cervical Cancer

    PRESCRIP TEC Project in Uganda

    Learn more about the work that the Uganda Cancer Institute (UCI) and the Uganda Rural Development and Training Programme (URDT) are doing in the PRESCRIP-TEC project to eliminate Cervical Cancer as a public health problem in remote areas of Uganda.

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    PRESCRIP TEC Project in Uganda

  • URDT Model

    Journey with us to Uganda

    URDT Model to development in rural communities

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    Journey with us to Uganda

    URDT’S MODEL FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT

    The Uganda Rural Development and Training programme (URDT) was founded to address the missing link in development programmes: the merger of truly functional education and training with rural development interventions, with the intent of empowering and energizing marginalized people living in rural communities.

    Since 1987, URDT has been working with the rural people to create for themselves prosperity, peace, health, happiness and freedom. Together with the population URDT has evolved, applied, tested, and documented a rural development methodology based on the principles of the creative process and systems thinking.

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    Location

    Please contact us at: Uganda Rural Development & Training Programme Located in Kagadi town council, Kagadi District, Greater Kibaale, Bunyoro Region, Uganda-Africa Contact office – Plot 617 Rubaga Kibuga Block-4, P. O. Box, 16184 Kampala, Uganda.

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