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How should Uganda finance infrastructure development?
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2017)
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 ...
The fight for equality in east Africa: An analysis of sexual gender-based violence in Central African Republic, democratic republic of Congo and Uganda
(Akina Mama wa Afrika, 2018)
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 ...
Fiscal Policy and Public Debt Sustainability in Uganda
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2019)
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 ...
Fostering rural women nonfarm household enterprise financing through local groups
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2017)
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. ...
Understanding productivity dispersion Evidence from a new survey of manufacturing firms in Uganda
(International Growth Center (IGC) Uganda, 2019)
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 ...
Comprehensive Evaluation of the Universal Primary Education (UPE) Programme: Financing and Costing of UPE
(National Planning Authority, 2020)
With the introduction of UPE in 1997, Government committed to providing the basic facilities and resources to enable every child enter and complete primary school. The Government commitments included: (i) payment of school ...
National Investment Policy for Aquaculture Parks in Uganda
(TrustAfrica, 2014)
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 ...
The role of Public Private Partnerships in enhancing access to quality Education: The Case of PEAS Intervention in Uganda
(Economic Policy Research Centre, 2019)
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, ...
Assessment of the Coherence between Uganda’s Tax Laws and Policies and the EAC Common Market Protocol
(Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) Uganda, 2014)
The East African Community (EAC) identified and prioritized the harmonization of taxation regimes of the Partner States as a way of fostering its goal towards the implementation of the Common Market Protocol. This is on ...
Supporting Refugees and Host Communities in East Africa
(Regional Durable Solutions Secretariat (ReDSS), 2017)
Displacement in Eastern Africa is predominantly of a protracted nature. At the end of May 2017, there were almost 13 million people displaced in the region- with 4 million refugees mostly from South Sudan and Somalia, and ...