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The Ugunja Community Resource Centre

UCRC is a community based organisation in Ugunja Division of Siaya District. It was started in 1992 to respond to community’s information needs after a realisation that the next and nearest information centre/library is in Kisumu some 72 Kms away. UCRC is a membership based organisation with membership standing at eighty [...]

Producer of Government Services  
  
The slow down in government expenditure which grew by 7.5 per cent in 2008 compared to 18 per cent in 2007 was due to privatisation and retrenchment in order to create room for improved efficiency in the sector. Real growths were not visible as there were tight budgetary controls in government expenditure. Capital [...]

The sector recorded significant decreases in the production of tea, wheat, sugar cane and maize. Overall marketed production declined by 13.5 per cent. The slow down in the sector has been contributed by the inefficiencies in major processing and marketing organisations, coupled with insufficient rainfall necessary for production of crops.However, growth in the sector was [...]