FAO/UNDP PROJECT UGA/87/007
FISHIN NOTES AND RECORDS

	SOCIO-ECONOMIC WORKING PAPERS No. 2 FISHING COMMUNITIES OF LAKE VICTORIA-UGANDA: A FIRST ASSESSMENT
	TABLE OF CONENTS

By

J.S. Kitakule¹ & J.E. Reynolds²

1. National Project Consultant, Community Survey.

2. Socio-Economic Advisor, FISHIN Project, UGA/87/007.

ABSTRACT

A preliminary assessment of findings from the FISHIN Project 1991 Community Socio-Economic Survey of Lake Victoria-Uganda is presented. The review concentrates on material collected through the community group-level interviews and some data from the household-level questionnaire. Basic features covered include community settlement patterns and land tenure, population composition, recent growth and development experiences and problems, service and amenity provision, community organisations, women's cash-earning activities, and perceptions of common health problems. Some tentative recommendations for development actions are made on the basis of survey findings compiled thus far.

EDITORIAL NOTE

It is intended that this first presentation of the 1991 Lake Victoria Community Survey findings will be followed by a fuller review now in preparation as a Field Document. The authors would like to acknowledge the kind assistance of Mr. S.K. Gupta, Chief Technical Advisor of World Bank/UNDP Project UGA/91/RO2, Social Dimensions of Adjustment Survey, for his advice on questions of sampling strategy, case weighting, and data analysis. Mr. Tom Emwanu, Data Processing Analyst, Statistics Department, Ministry of Planning and Economic Development, Entebbe, helped with setting up the computer processing work. Thanks are also due to Mr. Philip Gachuki, CTA of FAO/UNDP Project UGA/88/002, National Census of Agriculture and Livestock, along with Dr. S. Young and Messrs. Kiwesi and Magezi of the same Project, for their advice on sample survey questions and assistance with computer programme documentation. Valuable help with data entry tasks was also rendered by Ms. Margaret Masette, Fisheries Officer, Department of Fisheries, Entebbe.

FISHIN Socio-Economic Working Papers document results of major studies undertaken by Socio-Economic Group members of the FISHIN Project, and may incorporate material presented in earlier SEC Field Reports and other papers. Observations and findings presented in the papers are those of the authors and should be treated as preliminary and subject to further verification. Correspondence, comments, and suggestions are welcome and may be forwarded to: John-Eric Reynolds, Socio-Economic Advisor, FISHIN Project, UGA/87/007, FAO/UN, P.O. Box 521, Kampala, Uganda (or from August 1991 c/o Fisheries Policy and Planning -- FIPP, Fisheries Department, FAO, Via delle Terme di Caracalla, 00100, Rome, Italy.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

FISHING COMMUNITIES OF LAKE VICTORIA-UGANDA: A FIRST ASSESSMENT

1.   BACKGROUND

1.1   Survey Organisation and Objectives

1.2   Sample Selection and Sample Case Weightings

2.   FISHING COMMUNITIES OF LAKE VICTORIA-UGANDA: SOME BASIC FEATURES

2.1   Settlement Patterns and Access to Land

2.2   Population and Household Size

2.3   Community Growth and Development

2.4   Group Perceptions of Development Problems

2.5   Community Services and Amenities

2.6   Community Organisations

2.6.1.   The Gabunga or ‘Head Fisher’

2.6.2   Co-operative societies

2.7   Women's Involvement in Income-Generating Activities

2.8   Group Perceptions of Local Health Problems

3.   CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

3.1   Summary

3.1.1   Settlement and land

3.1.2   Population and household size

3.1.3   Community growth and development

3.1.4   Development problems

3.1.5   Services and amenities

3.1.6   Community organisations

3.1.7   Women's income-generating activities

3.1.8   Local health problems

3.2   Recommendations

3.2.1   Improved access

3.2.2   Land tenure

3.2.3   Social services and health

REFERENCES

APPENDIX 1:   FIGURES

• FIGURE 1. FISHERIES REGIONS OF UGANDA.

• FIGURE 2. SKETCH MAP OF LAKE VICTORIA-UGANDA

APPENDIX 2:   TABLES

TABLE 1. SECSURV CASE WEIGHTING FACTORS.

TABLE 2. COMMUNITIES BY SETTLEMENT TYPE.

TABLE 3. COMMUNITY DWELLING TYPES.

TABLE 4. COMMUNITY TOTAL NUMBER OF DWELLINGS.

TABLE 5. COMMUNITY LAND OWNERSHIP STATUS.

TABLE 6. ESTIMATED POPULATIONS OF INDIVIDUAL SETTLEMENTS.

TABLE 7. ESTIMATED TOTAL COMMUNITY POPULATION BY REGION AND GENDER.

TABLE 8. COMMUNITY POPULATION BY REGION, GENDER, AND AGE.

TABLE 9. PATTERNS OF COMMUNITY GROWTH OVER LAST FIVE YEARS.

TABLE 10. COMMUNITY GROUP PERCEPTIONS OF DEVELOPMENT PROBLEMS.

TABLE 11. COMMUNITY DISTANCES FROM MAIN/TRUNK ROAD.

TABLE 12. COMMUNITY ACCESSIBILITY RATINGS.

TABLE 13. FISHING COMMUNITY VICINITY SERVICES/AMENITIES.

TABLE 14. COMMUNITY LOCAL FISHERS' ORGANISATIONS.

TABLE 15. COMMUNITY WOMENS' INCOME-GENERATING ACTIVITIES

TABLE 16. COMMUNITY GROUP PERCEPTIONS OF MAIN HEALTH PROBLEMS.