NUSAF Community Projects - Apac Records 98 Percent Failure.

(From New Vision (Uganda) - AAGM)

Byline: Patrick Jaramogi

NINETY eight percent of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund (NUSAF) projects in Apac district have not been completed in three years, a report has indicated.

The assessment, conducted by Agency for Sustainable Development Initiative (ASDI), a civil society agency in the district, described NUSAF projects as full of ineffectiveness, inefficiency and characterised by lack of accountability and non-existent projects.

The survey from September to October 2006, concluded that the performance of NUSAF in Apac "is a mixture of very limited success and a lot of failures."

Now, district leaders are concerned about the stalemate of the projects and want action taken on the culprits.

Reacting to the report, the district chairman, Nicholas Opio Bunga said: "This issue of ghost projects and lack of …