The Parish Development Model (PDM) is a government strategy for organizing and delivering public and private sector interventions for wealth creation and employment generation at parish level as the lowest economic planning unit. It is a model for socioeconomic transformation of smallholder farmers by moving them out of the non-monetary subsistence to a money economy. The model is fully backed by the Government of Uganda. Legally, PDM is backed by the Local Government Act 1997 that designates a parish as one of the planning units for government. The model was developed in line with the National Development Plan III (NDPIII), the NRM 2021 -2026 manifesto, but also address two Sustainable Development Goals - no poverty (SDG 1) and zero hunger (SDG 2). According to 2019/2020 Uganda National Household Survey report, 39% of Ugandan households (approximately 16 million people) are under the subsistence economy. The targeted subsistence households are characteristic of low-income earnings, limited access to land (mostly tenants), mainly subsistence food growers for home consumption who sometimes depend on hand-outs. Majority of household heads barely afford earning more than UGX 7000 (1.9 USD) per day which is the international poverty line level. In response to the challenges associated with the subsistence economy, the PDM targets a parish (in a rural setting) and a ward (in a city/urban setting) as the lowest reference unit for planning, budgeting and delivering of public services. The strategy is expected to move Ugandans from a subsistence economy into a money economy.