Partnerships and Collaborations

	The National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) The National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO) is an agency of the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries (MAAIF) with the mandate to coordinate and oversee all aspects of public-funded agricultural research in Uganda.Established as a body corporate by the National Agricultural Research Act of 2005, NARO comprises a Governing Council, a Secretariat and 16 Public Agricultural Research Institutes (PARIs) spread across the country. NARO is mandated to undertake research in all aspects of agriculture including crops, livestock, fisheries, forestry, agro-machinery, natural resources and socio-economics.
	Mbale Municipal Council Mbale is a city in the Eastern Region of Uganda. It is the main municipal, administrative, and commercial center of Mbale District and the surrounding sub-region. Mbale is approximately 225 kilometres (140 mi), by road, northeast of Kampala, Uganda's capital and oldest city, on an all weather tarmac highway. The city lies at an average elevation of 1,156 metres (3,793 ft) above sea level. The coordinates of the city are 1°04'50.0"N, 34°10'30.0"E (Latitude:1.080556; Longitude:34.175000). The city also lies on the railway from Tororo to Pakwach. Mount Elgon, one of the highest peaks in East Africa, is approximately 48 kilometres (30 mi), north-east of Mbale, by road.
	The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) The Forum for African Women Educationalists (FAWE) is a membership-based pan-African Non-Governmental Organisation that operates through 34 National Chapters in sub-Saharan Africa to promote girls’ and women’s education. FAWE’s vision, mission and goal are all resolute on the well-being of girls’ education. In order to accomplish its mission of ‘promoting gender equity and equality in education in Africa’ FAWE uses a holistic four-pronged approach. FAWE is a non-political, voluntary, charitable, non-sectarian, not-for-profit organisation and does not discriminate on the basis of race, ideology, colour, nationality or religious persuasion. However, its target beneficiaries and constituency are primarily girls and women.
	The Higher Education Students’ Financing Board (HESFB) The Higher Education Students’ Financing Board (HESFB) was established in February, 2014 by an Act of Parliament HESFB Act No. 2 of 2014, with a mandate to provide Loans and Scholarships to Ugandan students to pursue Higher Education. HESFB is intended to provide loans and scholarships to Ugandan students who have qualified to pursue accredited courses of study or programmes in the recognized Higher Education Institutions in Uganda but are unable to support themselves financially. HESFB implements the Students Loan Scheme.
	Mbale Regional Referral Hospital Mbale Regional Referral Hospital is a government owned and funded hospital. It is located 250km east of Kampala in the Centre of Mbale City. The Hospital serves a population of over 4.6 million people in 16 districts of Busia, Tororo, Butaleja, Pallisa, Budaka, Mbale, Bududa, Sironko, Manafwa, Namisindwa, Butebo, Kapchorwa, Kibuku, Bukwo, Kween and Bulambuli. Started 1924 as a health Centre and has since grown to a 450-bed capacity Regional Referral hospital.
	VSF Global Food Justice (VSF-VETERMON), Spain VFS Global is the world's largest visa outsourcing and technology services specialist for governments and diplomatic missions worldwide. The company manages the administrative and non-judgmental tasks related to visa, passport and consular services for its client governments. This enables them to focus entirely on the critical task of assessment. With 3366 application centres and operations in 149 countries across 5 continents, VFS Global serves the interests of 70 client governments. The company has successfully processed over 272 million applications since its inception in 2001, and over 126.53 million biometric enrolments since 2007. VFS Global provides a wide range of services aimed at enhancing customer experience in public services with an automated and seamless process. However, VFS Global does not play any part in the decision-making process behind visa applications being granted or denied. VFS Global employs highly trained and dedicated staff across 5 continents and is continually investing in its people and technology operations. The company offers rewarding and exciting career opportunities across the globe. VFS Global has its headquarters in Zurich/Switzerland and Dubai/United Arab Emirates.
	The AIDS Support Organization TASO was started in 1987 by a group of medical workers who had witnessed how badly patients showing signs of Acquired Immuno Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) were being treated in the wards of the Mulago Hospital in Kampala. At first, it was a small, informal group of people meeting to talk about HIV and AIDS and grow into an organisation. It became one of the major HIV and AIDS care organisations in Uganda. When TASO started, Uganda was recovering from a war that brought the current government to power. TASO was founded to provide comfort to patients who were being discriminated against and sometimes abandoned by relatives to die within the hospital compound. As the number of people coming for comfort to this small group grew, counseling became a necessary service to keep those seeking comfort. By 2008, TASO had grown into one of the largest indigenous HIV and AIDS services organisation in Uganda.
	National Forestry Authority (NFA) Establishment of the National Forestry Authority was preceded by the development of the new Forestry Policy (2001) and the National Forest Plan (2002). These were to provide for a framework for distribution of roles and responsibilities amongst sector stakeholders and not just the Forestry Department. NFA has a mandate of managing 506 Central Forest Reserves (CFR’s) totaling to 1,262,090 ha of the land cover, with objectives of improving management of the CFRs, expanding partnership arrangements, supplying forest and non-forest products and services and ensuring organizational stability.
	Masaka Regional Referral Hospital Having started in 1927 as a treatment centre for World War I veterans, Masaka Regional Referral Hospital was elevated to regional referral status in 1996.The hospital has a 330 bed capacity with an annual admission of 23,456 patients giving a bed occupancy rate of 90.6%. However with the completion of a new mega hospital facility, the bed capacity is expected to increase to about 540 beds. Masaka Regional Referral hospital offers all services expected of a regional referral health facility but also offers nutritional support for both children and adults.
	St. Mary’s Hospital, Lacor, Gulu Lacor Hospital is located in Obiya West Village, Bardege Division, Gulu City, Gulu District, Acholi sub-region, Northern Uganda. This location lies along the Gulu-Nimule Road, approximately 6 kilometres (4 mi), by road, west of Gulu Regional Referral Hospital. Gulu, the largest city in Northern Uganda is located approximately 335 kilometres (208 mi), north of Kampala, the capital of Uganda and the largest city in that country.[2] The coordinates of Lacor Hospital are:2° 46' 3.00"N, 32° 15' 11.00"E (Latitude:2.767500; Longitude:32.253056). The hospital serves as a general hospital for a significant percentage of the population of the city of Gulu and of Gulu District. It also serves as a referral hospital for many smaller hospitals in the region, as well as less well equipped and staffed hospitals in the country. Lacor Hospital is one of two teaching hospitals for Gulu University School of Medicine, the other being Gulu Regional Referral Hospital. St. Mary's Hospital Lacor is one of the best in East Africa.
	World Vision Uganda World Vision Uganda seeks to address causes and effects of poverty through development, relief and advocacy. Over 128,633 registered children benefit from World Vision Uganda’s work. World Vision Uganda is able to provide educational support, construct and equip schools and health centres, train health workers and farmers, participate in advocacy campaigns, distribute improved crop varieties and animal breeds, and provide clean and safe water. World Vision Uganda started in 1986 to offer relief and resettlement packages and to help reconstruct districts in central Uganda ravaged by the 1981-1986 war. Development work was added on with the initiation of Community Development Projects (CDPs) in central, southern, western and West Nile regions between 1987 and 1995.
	Uganda Wildlife Authority, (UWA) Uganda Wildlife Authority, (UWA) manages 10 National Parks; 12 Wildlife reserves; 5 Community Wildlife Management Areas; and 13 Wildlife Sanctuaries. The ten National Parks include Queen Elizabeth, Lake Mburo, Murchison Falls, Kidepo Valley, Kibale, Mount Elgon, Rwenzori Mountains, Semuliki, Mgahinga Gorilla, and Bwindi Impenetrable National Parks. These parks display the best in East Africa. Their Rift Valley landscapes and tropical forests make dramatic backdrops to an extensive variety of flora and fauna.Explore the wild Kidepo Valley; spot Queen Elizabeth’s tree-climbing lions; trek up the Virunga Volcanoes; summit the snow-capped Rwenzori Mountains; take on Bwindi’s “impenetrable forest”; learn ancient tribal traditions and crafts or just relax at your lodge surrounded by the wonderful sights and sounds of Africa’s most hospitable destination.
	Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture Description
	Cyber School Technology Solutions Limited Cyber School Technology Solutions is a premier provider of quality educational services offering world-class solutions to enhance the online educational environment globally. The one-stop-site for development, e-learning, communication solutions, Cyber School Technology Solutions works with experienced educators and technocrats across the globe in designing and developing digital educational resources, portals and learning management systems for improved communication and easy access to syllabus-specific lessons on Science and mathematics. Be it digital content on 3D, online tutoring services, ICT courses or School Online Information Systems, all our products, educational tools, training and support material and services are well-researched and tested, providing appropriate solutions to achieve student success at all levels.
	Uganda Prison Services The key objective of Uganda Prison Services(UPS) is "to contribute to the protection of all members of society by providing reasonable, safe, secure and humane custody and rehabilitation of offenders in accordance to universally accepted standards".
	Operation Wealth Creation (OWC) 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”
	Cure Children’s Hospital of Uganda, Mbale Officially opened in Mbale, Uganda on January 19, 2001, CURE Uganda is one of Africa’s leading pediatric hospitals for brain surgery and the treatment of neurological conditions. It provides minimally-invasive endoscopic neurosurgical procedures and attracts surgeons from around the world to its prestigious CURE Neuro Fellowship Program. The teaching hospital consists of three operating rooms, an 18-bed Intensive Care Unit, and 68 Ward beds. Hospital staff complete approximately 1,900 surgical procedures annually for children with conditions including hydrocephalus, spina bifida, brain tumors, and other neural tube defects. In addition to world-class clinical service, CURE Uganda ministers to the emotional and spiritual needs of patients and their communities.
	Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU) Research and Education Network for Uganda (RENU) is a not-for-profit National Research and Education Network (NREN) that offers affordable services uniquely designed to enable collaboration among its member institutions and their global partners.
	Mbale Clinical Research Institute (MCRI) MCRI was founded in 2008 in response to the need for evidenced based clinical guidelines. Together with various partners at different stages in its development, the MCRI has remained focused on clinical research as an ingredient on which to inform development of clinical guidelines in East Africa and similar settings in the region and beyond.
	Comprehensive Rehabilitation Services for People with Disabilities in Uganda CoRSU was established in 2009 as a private, non-profit, non-governmental organization in Uganda. CoRSU’s core mandate is to mitigate the debilitating effects of disabling physical conditions, by ensuring accessibility and availability of quality, preventative, curative, rehabilitative services for people with disability in Uganda and neighboring countries. CoRSU provides subsidized treatments (surgery and rehabilitation) for vulnerable patients and this is carried out through social assessment tools.