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Rural Agency for Sustainable Development

NGO located in the Mukono District of Uganda

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ7380469 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Rural Agency for Sustainable Development (RASD) is an NGO based in the Ugandan town of Nkokonjeru. It was first established as a CBO in 2000 before gaining NGO status in 2005, serving communities in the wider Buikwe, Kayunga and Mukono District around Nkokonjeru. RASD has received broad support from the community through private donations and volunteer efforts as well as from the local government of the Nkokonjeru Town Council and Mayor. Engineers Without Borders groups from the University of California, Davis and Duke University have assisted RASD with new technology implementation. EWB-UK have recently started sending students on 3 month placements to help with ongoing RASD projects.

Mission

In coordination with local government and other motivated organizations, RASD strives to alleviate poverty in the Buikwe, Mukono and Kayunga districts by improving the health and economic opportunities of the communities. The focus of accomplishing this mission resolution is through development and coordination of programs for the benefit of the communities. The various programs encompass general health improvement, assistance for orphans, water quality and availability, sanitation, vocational training, and agricultural needs.

Programs

Notable programs at RASD include:

Vocational education

There are schools for hairdressing, carpentry, catering and nursery offered at RASD. Volunteer-taught classes provide students who do not have enough money for university-level education an alternative way to learn skills that will let them earn a successful living.

2013 Update: None of these projects are currently funded or staffed.

Editorial summary

“Rural Agency for Sustainable Development” enters the record as nGO located in the Mukono District of Uganda. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rural, Agency and Sustainable can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost useful as a place-based finding aid connecting the present description to earlier jurisdictions, maps and built evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2005, 2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rural, Agency and Sustainable.
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Why this record matters

“Rural Agency for Sustainable Development” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rural, Agency and Sustainable provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7380469. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2000, 2005 and 2013.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rural Agency for Sustainable Development” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.