The core aim of the Business, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (BTVET) is to promote an integrated, demand driven and competent based modular system. Learners enter the system at various points suited to ...

In 2001, the Chinese government began a strong, sustained push for Chinese companies to increase their outgoing investment. The expansion of China’s “Going Out” or “Going Global” strategy has brought an increasing number ...

The 2030 Agenda (Sustainable Development Goals) highlights gender equality and empowerment of women and girls (Goal number five) as one of the issues to be addressed in pursuit of sustainable inclusive growth and development ...

Although Uganda has made progress in infrastructure development, the country still faces huge deficits across all sectors, including in transport, energy, water and information and communication technology that require ...

This policy brief will contain a summarized analysis on how effective the implementation of the Kampala Declaration on SGBV, the Goma Declaration on eradicating Sexual Violence and Ending Impunity in the Great Lakes, and ...

The level of Uganda’s public debt has created doubts regarding the government’s sustained ability to repay. This is because of both the rapidly increasing debt accumulation as well as share of interest payments in the ...

Rural women entrepreneurs in Uganda continue to face multiple challenges that impede their enterprise growth and expansion, despite pragmatic interventions from government and non-state actors to enhance entrepreneurship. ...

There are large productivity differences across firms in developing countries, even within the same sector and region. Understanding what contributes to such differences in productivity is important for designing policies ...

According to the National Development Plan (NDP), fish farming in Uganda presents immense opportunities for socio-economic development, in terms of livelihood, income, and employment. The need for the National Investment ...

Despite Uganda’s efforts to enhance access to secondary education through the universal secondary education (USE) programme, access to secondary education remains a challenge—especially for poor students and girls. Also, ...