Agriculture

B-VET Project Skills & Decent Jobs Workshop Edition April 2026

Advancing Skills for Decent Jobs in Uganda On 16th April 2026, the B-VET Project participated in the Skills & Decent Jobs Workshop held in Kampala, Uganda, bringing together key stakeholders from government, academia, development partners, and the private sector. During the workshop, GWED-G, on behalf of the B-VET consortium, presented an overview of the project, highlighting its objectives, implementation approach, and contribution to strengthening vocational education and youth employability in Uganda. The workshop...

B-VET Project Monitoring & Uganda Consortium Visit November 2025

B-VET Project Monitoring & Uganda Consortium Visit November 2025 Introduction The Erasmus+ funded B-VET Project continues to strengthen Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) in Northern and West Nile Uganda. In November 2025, GWED-G hosted consortium partners from Europe and Uganda for a strategic monitoring visit, field-learning engagements, and collaboration meetings aimed at improving project implementation. Consortium Meeting at GWED-G office in Gulu city, Uganda Key Highlights • Strengthened collaboration between European and Ugandan partners •...

Gulu University Launches Agri-food Systems Research and Entrepreneurship Centre (ASEC) Program

Gulu University has launched Agri-food Systems Research and Entrepreneurship Centre (ASEC) Program under TAGDeV 2.0. The launch took place at the Gulu University New Library on Thursday 7TH August 2025 during an inception meeting that brought together over 100 participants across Acholi, Lango and West Nile sub-regions. Dr. Collins Okello, the Dean Faculty of Agriculture and Environment Gulu University said TAGDev 2.0 programme which comes after a successful implementation of TAGDeV...

UIPE Paid University Vice Chancellor a Courtesy Call

Uganda Institution of Professional Engineers on October 30th of October 2024 paid a courtesy call on the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Openjuru George Ladaah after holding a workshop on Innovation and Intellectual Property Management for the Bio-System Engineering students and staff at the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment. The team were accompanied by their partners like the Royal Academy of Engineering and University of the West of Scotland. Dr. Okello Collins, the Dean Faculty...

Gulu University VC tips African University leaders in TAGDev1.0 Experiences

Prof. Openjuru George Ladaah, the Gulu University Vice-Chancellor has told African University Vice-Chancellors that his administration was able to succeed in the implementation of the program “Transforming African Agricultural Universities to Meaningfully Contribute to Africa’s Growth and Development” (TAGDev 1.0) by re-envisioning teaching in the direction of producing job creators and not job seekers. Prof. Openjuru was addressing Vice-Chancellors and Education stakeholders in Africa during the second RUFORUM Triennial Conference, held...