Yesterday afternoon, 15th November
representatives of the municipality, CSOs, Business community, political
leaders, bankers from Fort-portal town met at St Joseph’s Inn Virika, to form a
Municipal Development Forum, a body that will be overseeing the implementation of a long term infrastructure
development plan for Fort-portal and
ensure value for every money spent. While opening the meeting His worship, the
Mayor Edson Ruyonga noted that with the limited funding Fort-portal has grown
from strength to a level of planning for a city, and now with the heavy funding from the World Bank the
dream of making Fort-portal a city would
be realized. He however called upon the members of the Forum to frequently
share information and plan for the sustainability of the project as early as possible.
During the main presentation from the ministry of
lands, Housing and urban Development, Mr. Kasimbazi David, noted that the
municipal infrastructure Development (USMID) project is a five year based project meant to enhance the institutional development
in urban planning and more so infrastructure development. He challenged the
participants that what we see today is a plan of 50 years back and thus the
municipality should be able to plan how it will look like in the next 50 years he
explained that all this requires capacity development for the human resource ,
partly that the funding will be tagged to.he asked the members why they were setting up buildings of
10metres yet other countries as Japan have set up buildings 200 metres high ? All this is possible when
other stakeholders realize there is a
good plan to contribute to and that’s the reason the Forum representation is from different stakeholders, lastly the
participants elected members of the Municipality Development Forum who
comprised of CSOs,religious leaders,
business community among others to draw the road map for the project and
oversee its implementation.
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