Partcipants at the 2011 Youth Science, Technology and Innovation Contest (23-24 September 2011, Golf Course Hotel-Kampala )

Millennium Science Initiative funding has produced an impressive range of projects in Uganda. The government is wrong to bring it to an end.

For the past five years, winds of change have been blowing through Ugandan science. Funded largely by a US$30-million loan from the World Bank under its Millennium Science Initiative (MSI), a large number of projects have taken place aimed at boosting the country’s capacity to use science and technology in agriculture and industry to meet its development needs. More »