Oil palm seedlings take 18 months before they can be ready to plant. Within two years, 896 farmers have been schooled on how ...

When Uganda struck oil along the shores of Lake Albert, international investors hailed it as East Africa’s next great energy frontier. China’s Cnooc, France’s TotalEnergies, and the state-backed ...

The Consolidated Fund, which finances immediate priorities such as healthcare, education, and infrastructure. • The Petroleum ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. It is time to shift the discussion from the motivations of disenfranchised ...

Young people are more likely to believe that global poverty can be eradicated, but this optimism declines sharply with age, a ...

President Museveni further revealed how through his wealth creation message in the 1960s, managed to transform the lives of the people of Ankole and now they are living a prosperous life. President ...

Uganda has agreed to take on an unspecified number of third-country nationals who have a pending asylum claim in the US but cannot return home due to safety concerns. In other words, these are people ...

Wednesday's Public Poverty Forum in Kampala had one blogger, Tumwijukue, asking, “Did they (re)define poverty? Did they speak of poverty of the mind? Or did they merely use the event as a networking ...

Presidential Advisor on Exports and Industrial Development (PACEID), Odrek Rwabwogo, has urged Uganda to reduce its reliance on raw material exports and embrace value addition as a strategy for job ...

A World Bank report provides an analysis on increasing inclusive growth and reducing poverty in Uganda based on the views of government agencies, civil society, private sector, development partners ...

This paper discusses Uganda’s Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) 2004/05–2007/08. The PEAP provides an overarching framework to guide public action to eradicate poverty. It has been prepared ...

WASHINGTON, January 17, 2006 – The World Bank Board of Directors today discussed the Uganda Joint Assistance Strategy (UJAS) and approved an International Development Association (IDA) grant of US$112 ...