Collective effort Inter-group associations are functioning in all three districts. In the Buleya area of Kalabo District, six groups set up an Area Advisory Committee to raise community problems with local authorities. The committee also manages eight oxen donated by the Netherlands and used for ploughing rice and maize fields. The oxen are rotated among the groups, each of which appoints one member to look after them and contributes to a fund for veterinary supplies. Before the ploughing season, the committee draws up a work plan assigning four animals to each group for two weeks.
Members wishing to use the oxen pay a small daily fee.
The idea has been taken up by other groups, two of which recently received three-year development loans for oxen and ploughs. Similar cooperation is evident at all levels of the project. District-level coordinators have been appointed to supervise GPs directly and, at a higher level, a Provincial PPP Coordinating Committee has evolved into a Women in Development Committee overseeing all activities for women in the region.