Back in 2007, Katine, a sub-county of 25,000-30,000 people, was recovering from waves of insecurity, including attacks by Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army.
A sub-county project steering committee prioritised 12 worst hit villages, before Amref's technical staff and district water authorities chose the lucky eight.
At the start of the project, Katine, a sub-county in north-east Uganda, had some of the worst socio-economic indicators in the country.
"As a sub-county we would only benefit from taxing those who come to buy from the store, and those who might need space to keep the produce for some time - if space is available," he said.
And farmers in Katine, a sub-county in Uganda that Guardian readers have supported for nine years, signed a deal with Kenyan firms to export grains, which should boost their incomes.
This is threatening the development of Katine as a sub-county, leaving most of the people as peasants or casual labourers in most of the manufacturing industries in Uganda.
Animals are so weak and prone to pneumonia that flash downpours in a sub-county of Marsabit, the first of the season, killed 5,000 goats in just two days, according to local authorities.
In Katine, a sub-county in north east Uganda, where the Guardian is supporting development work being carried out by the African Medical and Research Foundation (Amref) and Farm-Africa, music is used to deliver important messages and educate people in a way newspapers and the internet do elsewhere.
Under the livelihoods component of the project, the African Medical and Research Foundation, assisted by Farm-Africa, sponsored 18 farmers' groups in the sub-county to tour several farms and the research institute in Serere, a town in a sub-county further south of Katine, in the hope they would learn new skills and ideas on citrus growing, which they could replicate back home.
This study took place in Isiolo Central, a sub-county of Isiolo County situated in northern Kenya.
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