Livelihoods and Enterprises for Agricultural development (LEAD).
LEAD was initially designed to catalyze the transformation of Uganda's agricultural economy by facilitating competitiveness in select agricultural value chains. Following a successful mid-term evaluation, LEAD focused activities on the three FtF value chains-maize, beans, and coffee-and modified its approach be more facilitative versus intervening directly. LEAD activities focus on private sector agro-input suppliers and commodity buyers to generate sustainable benefits for large numbers of smallholder farmers through better, more business-oriented relations with farmers as their customers and suppliers. Employing a light touch facilitation approach to ensure ownership-and therefore sustainability of results-LEAD provides a combination of technical assistance and cost-sharing (underwriting initial risk of new approaches and technologies) in different combination, encouraging innovations such as developing market entry strategies, assisting early-adopter target firms to scale-up, producing case studies and presentations at industry forums, and hiring field agents to market inputs and to promote and buy high-quality produce. Such successes promote sustainability and encourage emulation by other firms. Coupled with the facilitative value-chain approach, LEAD employs an adaptive planning process-collaboration, learning, adaptation-that allows periodic evaluation of project interventions and gaps, allowing adjustments to the implementation and significantly increasing the effectiveness of the strategy. This built-in learning process allows for quick incorporation of new information and opportunities, which leads to improved project performance and results.
- Project ID
US-GOV-1-AID-EDH-I-09-05-00006- Activity status
- 2 - Implementation
- Aid type
- C01 - Project-type interventions
- % to Uganda
- 100.00
Organisations
- Accountable
- U.S. Agency for International Development
- Extending
- U.S. Agency for International Development
- Funding
- U.S. Agency for International Development
- Implementing
- ARD, Inc.
Disbursements by fiscal year, quarter
| Fiscal year |
Fiscal quarter |
Value (USD) |
Uganda Value (USD) |
| 2015 |
Q4 |
-14,162.00 |
-14,162.00 |
| 2013 |
Q3 |
521,116.71 |
521,116.71 |
| 2013 |
Q2 |
151,678.43 |
151,678.43 |
| 2013 |
Q1 |
421,595.45 |
421,595.45 |
| 2012 |
Q4 |
886,496.05 |
886,496.05 |
| 2012 |
Q3 |
680,586.03 |
680,586.03 |
| 2012 |
Q2 |
857,342.83 |
857,342.83 |
| 2012 |
Q1 |
754,667.09 |
754,667.09 |
| 2011 |
Q4 |
936,733.64 |
936,733.64 |
| 2011 |
Q3 |
769,554.73 |
769,554.73 |
| 2011 |
Q2 |
2,100,918.90 |
2,100,918.90 |
| 2011 |
Q1 |
1,457,299.53 |
1,457,299.53 |
| 2010 |
Q4 |
3,180,231.12 |
3,180,231.12 |
| 2010 |
Q3 |
2,422,624.27 |
2,422,624.27 |
| 2010 |
Q2 |
2,449,125.70 |
2,449,125.70 |
| 2010 |
Q1 |
4,396,873.89 |
4,396,873.89 |
| 2009 |
Q4 |
2,913,999.33 |
2,913,999.33 |
| 2009 |
Q3 |
2,948,376.45 |
2,948,376.45 |
| 2009 |
Q2 |
2,956,155.75 |
2,956,155.75 |
| 2009 |
Q1 |
2,017,153.11 |
2,017,153.11 |
| 2008 |
Q4 |
1,590,437.40 |
1,590,437.40 |
| 2008 |
Q3 |
1,048,479.55 |
1,048,479.55 |
| 2008 |
Q2 |
342,808.46 |
342,808.46 |
Commitments by fiscal year, quarter
| Fiscal year |
Fiscal quarter |
Value (USD) |
Uganda Value (USD) |
| 2017 |
Q4 |
-176,928.58 |
-176,928.58 |
| 2013 |
Q1 |
85,680.00 |
85,680.00 |
| 2012 |
Q3 |
1,453,841.00 |
1,453,841.00 |
| 2011 |
Q1 |
5,200,000.00 |
5,200,000.00 |
| 2010 |
Q1 |
7,000,000.00 |
7,000,000.00 |
| 2009 |
Q3 |
7,082,500.00 |
7,082,500.00 |
| 2009 |
Q1 |
7,500,000.00 |
7,500,000.00 |
| 2008 |
Q4 |
3,905,000.00 |
3,905,000.00 |
| 2008 |
Q1 |
3,750,000.00 |
3,750,000.00 |
MTEF projections by fiscal year
| Fiscal year |
Value (USD) |
Uganda Value (USD) |
| CRS code |
% |
|
Biosphere protection
(41020)
|
2.09
|
|
Trade policy and administrative Management
(33110)
|
3.8
|
|
Business support services and institutions
(25010)
|
12.71
|
|
Agricultural development
(31120)
|
80.56
|
|
STD control including HIV/AIDS
(13040)
|
0.84
|