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Ugandan politician
Agnes Atim Apea
is a Ugandan
social entrepreneur
and politician. She founded the Hope Development Initiative, and was named to the
BBC
's
100 Women
programme in 2017. In the
2021 general election
, she was elected to the Parliament of Uganda as the women's representative in the
Amolatar District
for the
National Resistance Movement
.
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Education and career
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Apea has a
Doctor of Philosophy
in International Development from the
University of Reading
, and a
Master's degree
from
Uganda Martyrs University
in Developmental Studies.
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Apea is the chairperson of Local Government Finance Commission and also the founder and chief executive officer of Hope Development Initiative,
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which promotes the rice growing industry for female farmers in several areas of Uganda. This has led to her nickname of "Mama Rice".
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Her organization has arranged
agricultural cooperatives
in Uganda, and drive to achieve a significant portion of the market share. In addition to rice, the cooperatives also work with seeds used to make
vegetable oil
and
cassava
products.
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She is also the women's representative of Parliament for the Amolatar District in
Northern Uganda.
In 2017, she was named to the
BBC
's
100 Women
programme.
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Apea found out while she was attending the 7th African Grain Trade Summit in
Tanzania
, saying that is it was because she promoted social justice and teaching to young women that she made the list.
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In the eleventh parliament of Uganda, she serves as the deputy chairperson of the Committee on Agriculture, Animal Industries & Fisheries.
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