Works & Technical Services
ROADS
The current total length of district roads stands at 452km, out of which about 255km are in good and fair status whilst the rest are either in bad or poor conditions. This represents about 55%. The Central Government took over about 85Km, but this is little compared to the over 200km that are poor and therefore call for Full scale rehabilitation since most roads traverse across deep swamps and flood prone areas. The road equipment that would otherwise reduce on the road rehabilitation backlog are in appalling mechanical status.
It is worth noting that most of these roads link to other districts, agricultural production areas and Kiboga – Hoima highway but Uganda Road Fund (URF) that took over funding for road works focuses on only road routine and periodic maintenance as per its mandate.
The situation is worse for community access roads under the jurisdiction of sub counties that receive funds under URF that are too little to cater for over 2-3km of Periodic maintenance per year. There are no funds at all to cater for routine maintenance of community access roads. The sub counties have an average of 95km per subcounty under their mandate.
The District Transport sector contributes to social and economic development of the district through provisional of accessible road network, repair of mechanical plants and sensitization of communities.
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTIONS FOR THE 5 – YEARS
- Rehabilitation of 264.2 km of District Feeder roads.
- Periodic maintenance of 259.3 km of District Feeder roads.
- Routine maintenance of 315 km of District Feeder roads.
- Mainstreaming of cross cutting issues in road construction.
SAFE WATER COVERAGE
The overall policy objective of the Government for domestic water supply and sanitation is: “sustainable provision of safe water within easy reach and hygienic sanitation facilities, based on management responsibility and ownership by the users, to 77% of the population in rural areas and 100% of the urban population by the year 2015 with an 80% - 90% effective use and functionality of facilities”.
The departmental target for 2010-2011 in line with the above is to increase the safe water coverage of the district by 4.7%, from the current 52% to 56.7% through deep borehole drilling, hand-dug shallow well construction, protection of springs and borehole rehabilitation all associated with the corresponding software activities.
