Background
Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) was launched by H.E the President in July 2013 as an intervention to efficiently facilitate national socio-economic transformation, with a focus on raising household incomes and wealth creation by transforming subsistence farmers into commercial farmers to end poverty. This was after successful implementation with tangle outcomes of the pilot program launched to support Civilian-Veterans in the “Luwero-Rwenzori Triangle”
Specific Objectives:
i) To mobilize the masses to engage in commercial
agricultural activities to boost household incomes;
ii) To distribute production inputs equitably and timely
to boost production and productivity at household level;
iii) To facilitate rural technological upgrading
to allow smallholder farmers to transform themselves into
small-scale industrialists;
iv) To stimulate local and community enterprise
development across the country; and
v) To facilitate infrastructure development
particularly in rural areas.
vi) To empower the 68% of the population outside
the money economy.