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lABour InTenSITY

Labour Intensive Public Works as
a social protection measure aims
at enabling capable individuals lydia nabiryo
and households to provide labour

in building community assets Senior programme Officer-
Policy and Advocacy

Labour Intensive Public Works aims at building community assets such as community access roads and in maintaining other road
infrastructure, environmental protection measures to contain soil erosion, among others.
the role of labour intensive public

works in addressing shocks in Uganda

ike all countries around the world, exacerbated the vulnerability of some categories
Uganda has been grappling to contain of the population.
the Covid-19 pandemic. Uganda The Global Growth Centre estimates poverty to
reported its first case of the Corona have increased reasonably in the country. Overall,

LVirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic poverty rates are estimated to have increased
on March 21st, 2020 and set in motion, a series from 18.6%, to 26.3%, in Kampala from 2.2% to
of measures to contain the virus including 20.2%, while other urban centres increased from
instituting a lock-down for more than 2 months. 9.1% to 22.3% and rural areas from 22.4% to
This caused disproportionate disruption in the 22.7%. The informal sector workers were the most
livelihoods of many households in the country and affected. Specifically those in the transport and

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