ATCA tweets about this article in New Vision (Uganda) by Jonathan Driliga. I don't know about promoting smoking but it looks like this factory is polluting the environment and its neighbors :(
On the 24th October 2018, a high-level stakeholder engagement meeting was held at the Kampala Golden Tulip Hotel, where GCRF tobacco control capacity program and the Center for Tobacco control in Africa (CTCA) launched the tobacco control capacity-building programme (TCCP) in Uganda.
What's the relationship between CTCA and ABCF going to be? The respective leaders met in August in Kampala. What's next? What about the other organizations/groups that used to be funded by the Gates Foundation?
Visiting the Bloomberg Initiative's site we discover 4 grants awarded in May, June and july 2014. All are provided to groups that were already regularly funded in Togo ($100,293), Ghana ($80K) and Uganda ($32K and $75K). See the details below.
WHO received in December 2009, $9.994.093 for a 5 year project centered around the creation of a 'hub'. The search for the country where the 'hub' would be installed was organized by the same DC based firm that was put in charge of its design and 'independent' evaluation. The announced budget for the 'hub' was to be about $3.5 million (less than 35% of the global grant) according to the document published in April 2010. The CTCA was inaugurated on... November 1, 2011 (the director had been recruited in September 2011). The 'first phase' of the WHO project is supposed to end, according to this document (at the bottom) in two months, in July 2014. What's next? Is the Gates Foundation going to continue its funding? at what level? for how long?
The Bloomberg Initiative has funded 4 projects in Africa since the beginning of 2014, in DRC ($80K), Kenya ($60K), Uganda ($18K), Ghana ($20K) for a total of $178K. All are linked to support passing legislation or implementing existing regulations.
The Textochange group in Kampala is looking for bloggers to blog about tobacco control. An interesting initiative but they don't tell if there is any financial incentive/compensation for the bloggers to blog?
A specially trained team of tobacco control advocates has prevented the tobacco industry from getting a suggested tobacco tax increase in Uganda reduced.
The Ministry of Finance had proposed increasing Uganda’s excise tax duty on cigarettes by 45.5 percent in the 2013-14 budget. When the matter was discussed in Parliament’s Finance Committee, the industry submitted a petition calling for an increase of just 11.4 percent.
From the CTCA's sitethis self-congratulatory presentation of their second annual performance review that does not tell us anything specific that we did not already know but probably cost a bundle. Who cares at WHO? Nobody as nobody outside of WHO is allowed to look at the cost effectiveness of the programs. Just try to get the detailed annual budget for the CTCA or the cost of this annual performance review...
Grants for programs in Kenya,Togo and Uganda (see details below). The grant for Kenya amounts to $49.380, the grant to Togo to $152.963 while 4 grants to Uganda total $456.440.
The International Tobacco Growers’ Association (ITGA) has welcomed the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (Comesa) decision to oppose the total ban of tobacco production without offering sustainable alternative crops. From Zimdiaspora
Visiting the Bloomberg Initiative site I find that the Ugandan Ministry of Health was awarded $120K in September to develop a "national tobacco control strategic plan". See below for a few more details. As of today, according to the information available, $272.724 have been awarded in 2012 by the Initiative to 4 African projects. That's a big drop compared to the previous years. Most of the recipients are organizations that had already been funded: what about all the other groups and countries? Any support for Guinea where advocates just succeed in advancing a new Tobacco Control Act (in French) or Senegal where they keep pushing and communicating (also in French).
Interesting article by Henry Zacumumpa about a public lecture titled, ‘The Journey from the Farm to the Lungs: Who gains from Tobacco in Africa?’ that took place on November 1st in Kampala. Source:The Observer
The Africa Tobacco Control Consortium works in 10 countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa. These countries include Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Zambia, The Gambia, Gabon, Senegal, Uganda and Congo Brazzaville.
You can learn more about our project activities in these countries. For update on our project in the individual countries, please click on the country name below:
Dr. Possy Mugyenyi, previously manager of the Uganda National Expansion Programme on Immunisation and now manager of the newly created Center for Tobacco Control in Africa made a presentation on September 21 at the All for Health One Health conference . See the pdf documents here page 1 and page 2. Read also on Facebook about the visit and 3 day capacity building workshop conducted by ATCC.
interesting article by Ibrahim Kasita on the New Vision site who echoes Lutgard's recent speech about deforestation caused by excessive tree cutting to provide fuel to cure their products. Several districts in the West Nile region plan to make by-laws to protect the forest and and make tree planting compulsory.
In an article in the East African, Hamina Abdallah describes the gloomy environmental impact of the tobacco farms in Uganda. Apparently BAT declined to comment about those destructive practices.
The cutting of trees for tobacco-curing, and charcoal-burning have
contributed to the depletion of trees in West Nile, the Arua district
forest officer, Edison Adiribo, has said.
He said tobacco, the region's major cash crop, requires large
quantities of wood fuel to cure, and has forced farmers to
indiscriminately cut down trees. Source: AllAfrica
The warning that manufacturers are to imprint on packets within the
next six months will read, Cigarette smoking causes lung cancer, heart
diseases and death” as opposed to the current warning, Cigarette
smoking can be harmful to your health. Dr Terry Kahuma, the executive
director of UNBS in a letter to the ministers of Health and Trade, said
the alert would be carried in English and Kiswahili. Source: Daily Monitor
BRITISH American Tobacco Uganda (BATU) has been ordered to pay over
sh3b to tobacco farmers as compensation for failure to buy their crop. As found on the blog of Jackie Tumwine :)
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