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| About
us |
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| What is PIBID |
- Presidential Initiative on Banana Industrial
Development
- H.E., The President of the Republic of Uganda
is the Patron.
- Governed by a Board and Management Committee.
- Collaborators include; Professionals, private
and public sectors and farmers
- Main areas of focus: - Value addition &
Quality control operations, Marketing &
Rural enterprise debt, Production.
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| Vision |
| State-of-the-art banana
processing enterprises in Uganda, producing value-added
matooke products with competitive market strength
both locally and globally, manned by rural farmers/
enterprenuers. |
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| Mission |
| To offer rural farmers
technical/ scientific services, outreach and Research
& Development opportunities in: |
- Sustainable banana production
- Sustainable and competitive value addition
to bananas
- Business and product process development
- Product quality assurance and safety
- Process/ product technology transfer and
commercialisation.
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| Goal
of the Project |
| To facilitate the development
of state-of-the-art banana-based sustainable processing
enterprises applying Technology Business Incubator
(TBI) and Industrial Technology Park (ITP) system
principles to help farmers/ enterpreneurs to sustainably
add value to matooke to yield profitable and competitive
products. |
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| Specific
Objectives |
1. Establishment of
benchmarks for starting a rural based pilot banana
processing Industry in Bushenyi.
2. To ensure sustainable processing of quality
products by a start-up rural value addition enterprise
through a TBI framework for local & global
markets.
3. Capacity building for farmers in new production
technologies & agronomic practices, so as
to ensure sustainability of matooke production
& marketing in Bushenyi District for a banana
processing industry.
4. Linking farmers/entrepreneurs to favourable
micro-financing mechanisms to facilitate the enterprises.
5. Establishment of reliable supply chains that
link farmers to more profitable market outlets
with medium and large scale food processors/consumers.
6. Assessment of overall project impact on overall
economic wealth, and livelihood of poor households
in the district.
7. Transformation of the Bushenyi TBI into a Banana
Industrial Research & Development Centre (BIRDC).
8. To build capacity for entrepreneurship training
& development through establishment of an
Industrial Technology Park at Sanga, near Lake
Mburo. |
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| Organs/
Units of the Project |
1. The Project Secretariat
(Kampala)
2. The Technology Business Incubator (TBI) at
Bushenyi.
3. The Industrial Technology Park (ITP) at Sanga,
near L.Mburo, Mbarara. |
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| PIBID
Secretariat: Functions |
1. Carrying out the
overall general administrations/management of
the project.
2. Preparation of routine correspondence on Project
administrative matters.
3. Custodianship of all Project reports and documents&
property
rights
4. Preparation of monthly, quarterly and annual
financial reports.
5. Production and dissemination of Project progress
reports.
6. Schedule and organize Project-related meetings
/workshops /
seminars; conventions etc.
7. Maintaining, updating and communicating PIBID.
calendars/schedules to all stakeholders.
8. Handling general secretarial work at the secretariat.
9. Establishing and operationalising the PIBID
project resource
centre. |
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