- CAPACITY BUILDING SUPPORT TO THE DEPARTMENT OF TAX POLICY IN MFPED
- CAPITALIZATION OF EADB
- COORDINATION OF MICRO AND SMALL ENTERPRISES & MICRO FINANCE OUTREACH
- FACILITY AND ASSETS MANAGEMENT
- FINMAP
- GOOD GOVERNANCE FOR POVERTY ERADICATION/ POVERTY MONITORING AND POLICY ANALYSIS UNIT
- GOU-UNICEF CROSS SECTOR COORDINATION
- INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT TO GOOD GOVERNANCE AND ACCOUNTABILITY
- MEDIUM TERM COMPETITIVENESS STRATEGY (MTCS) SECRETARIAT
- PRIVATE SECTOR COMPETITIVENESS/RURAL ENERGY
- PRIVATISATION & UTILITY SECTOR REFORM (PRIVATISATION UNIT)
- RSDP COORDINATION OFFICE
- THE MICRO-FINANCE SUPPORT CENTER
- UGANDA PARTICIPATORY POVERTY ASSESSMENT PROCESS (UPPAP)
- USAID TRUST FUND
- SUPPORT MINISTRY OF FINANCE, PLANNING AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND GOVERNMENT PURCHASES
- SUPPORT TO THE POVERTY ACTION FUND (PAF) SECRETARIAT
The Microfinance Support Center Ltd (MSC Ltd) is a limited liability company owned by government and set up to among others manage the Rural Microfinance support project (RMSP). RMSP is a country wide 5 year project funded by ADB and Government geared at the realization of Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) through the promotion of a countrywide access to affordable micro finance services.
Objective
- To provide financial services to the economically active poor
- Build capacity of the microfinance institutions
The Government of Uganda recognizes that development of micro and Small Enterprises (MSE) offers one of the most potent means of eradicating poverty. MSE are spread countrywide in both rural and urban areas. The Project and specifically the Unit's mandate includes effective coordination, formulation and implementation of appropriate policies that promote medium and long term development of the private sector and provide a regulatory framework for the Micro-Finance Institutions to benefit the poor to access funds for poverty eradication.
This project was designed under the Administrative Reform Programme to enhance capacity to manage government facilities and assets, tools and equipment both in country and abroad.
Objectives
- Develop and establish a software to enable data capture of coded and classified data on Government assets and facilities which hitherto never existed in Government
- Develop guidelines that control the management and use of Government Assets and Facilities
- Enhance the establishment of Asset Registers in Departments, which do not have sufficient resources to maintain an asset database
The Financial Management and Accountability Programme (FINMAP) was designed to deepen and consolidate achievements of financial management reforms to-date and to ensure sustainability.
The project has eight components and will cover further rollout of the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) in Agencies and Local Governments, strengthen public financial management, provide technical capacity support to Parliamentary Accountability Committees (PAC and the related Committees), and improve National planning and budgeting.
The programme will also provide support for development of an Integrated Personnel and Payroll System (IPPS) and its linkage and harmonisation with IFMS to be implemented by the Ministry of Public Service (MPS); the project will also support reforms for the Office of the Auditor General that will make the office more independent.
 Public Financial Management Performance Report 2008 - Final Report
FINMAP Strategy July 2006
In 1996, the Government of Uganda declared poverty eradication as its overall development goal. Following extensive consultations in 1997, a Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) was adopted which put forward a national vision for reducing the proportion of the national population living in absolute poverty to no more than 10 percent by the year 2017. In order for government to systematically monitor the outcomes of the PEAP policies and programmes, the Poverty Monitoring and Analysis Unit (PMAU) was established within the Planning and Poverty Eradication Section of the Economic Development Policy and Research department.
There was also need to coordinate support to various good governance initiatives funded by UNDP in different institutions, which would hasten poverty eradication. The initiatives include: long-term strategic vision and plan for capacity building programme for Parliament; strengthening the capacities of the UHRC and its partners to develop and implement strategies for human rights education, communication and mainstreaming human rights in development activities; strengthening the capacities of MSGLSD to develop and implement strategies for advancing gender and social equity in the country; strengthening the capacities of the office of the Inspector General of Government and Directorate of Ethics and Integrity, Office of the President, to enhance transparency and accountability of government and develop and implement a national strategy for promoting ethics and integrity in all sectors of governance; strengthening the capacities of the MoLG under the pilot districts to carry out the bottom up planning and equipping them with requisite skills within the Local Government Act framework.
Objectives
To increase the effectiveness of actions to eradicate poverty in Uganda
The specific objectives are:
- To strengthen capacities in key selected government institutions; to put in place policies and plans that facilitate poverty eradication through decentralized, broad based equitable development.
- To strengthen capacities in eight districts to participate in implementation of a building block participatory development management (PDM) initiative, starting at the village level.
- To demonstrate the efficacy of systematic participatory development management practices at the LC1 and 2 levels, and build capacity for the production of people oriented village plans and for their implementation.
- Enhanced capacity for poverty analysis
- Enhanced availability of information on poverty data and its reduction
- Increased use of information for poverty monitoring
- Increased application of well informed policy analysis
- Effective dissemination of government policies for poverty eradication.
Following the successful completion of the 1995-2000 Country Program, a new Country Programme 2001-05 anchored on the theme of Human Rights as a basis for design and implementation, followed. This Human Rights approach to programming, builds on achievements of previous Country Programme and focuses on Human rights issues that affect children and women and especially those in conditions of absolute poverty. This Country Programe (CP) is demand driven as opposed to the classic service Delivery. Hence it places the people at the centre of planning. Important too is that this Programme operates within the PEAP framework.
Objectives
- To co-ordinate implementing agencies of the Programme and UNICEF at national level on policy issues.
- Ensure accountability of Donor and GOU funds under various components
- To monitor implementation of the sectoral programme components at district level and ensure that the following Programme objectives below have been fulfilled:
- To reinforce capacity of duty bearers and enable them respect, protect and realise the universal rights of the Ugandan children.
- To strengthen capacities of rights holders to make claim and uphold their rights
- To ensure the realisation of the rights of the most disadvantaged and vulnerable girl children and women to free them from all forms of discrimination
- To strengthen the capacity of communities to analyse, assess, set priorities, take action and monitor outcomes of interventions at the local level.
The project aims at developing a commercially oriented service delivery of energy and small-scale renewable energy power generation by private enterprises which can effectively support scale-up of electricity and ICT access to underserved areas on a sustainable basis and support rural transformation. The project will address provision of a functioning conducive environment, an appropriate institutional framework, and adequate private sector capacities upon which a large-scale program can be built.
This sector affects the productivity of rural enterprises as well as the quality of life of rural households. Business and market development services will be provided to address skills and information barriers that constrain the development of rural electrification and ICT opportunities.
The PUSRP was set up as a follow up project on the Enterprise Development Project to contribute to broad based private sector lead growth of the economy, by reform and privatization of the parastatal sector. The scope includes completion of the ongoing privatization program, improvement of a utility reform program for telecommunication, power, water and railway sector and implementation of the financial oversight and monitoring of the parastatal sector.
Objective
To systematically improve the operational and financial performance of public enterprises (PEs) which might not be privatised; privatise PEs that can be operated more efficiently by the private sector; and promote competition in the provision of infrastructure services where feasible and desirable.
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The Government of Uganda is implementing the second 10-Year Road Sector Development Programme (RSDP2). The programme covers road improvement and maintenance projects as well as capacity building in the road sub-sector. For effective coordination and monitoring of the programme, Government established a Steering Committee chaired by the Permanent Secretary/Secretary to Treasury, to oversee the implementation of the RSDP. To facilitate the role of the Steering Committee, the RSDP Co-ordination Unit was set up in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development to act as a secretariat to the Steering Committee and carryout performance audit of the RSDP.
Objectives
- To appropriately establish procedures and associated capacity to provide macro-level planning, budgeting, coordination and monitoring of the RSDP.
Government has since 1986 initiated a broad based public service reform programme, which involved various reforms in the areas of economic policy and public expenditure management. These reforms call for significant capacity building in areas of policy analysis and formulation as well as use and management of public resources and external aid management. It is imperative to streamline and strengthen aid coordination within the new framework of donor partnership principles. Technical assistance is required in: strengthening capacity for implementing reforms in planning and budgeting targeting output orientation, SWAPs, MTEF; External aid programming and management focusing on budget support and integration of project aid in MTEF; capacity for tax policy analysis, formulation and monitoring; and spearhead a piloting of integrated financial management systems and fiscal decentralisation strategy.
The Government of Uganda also recognizes the significant role NGOs and Community Based Organizations (CBOs) play in national development, which has expanded tremendously in the recent past. Besides implementing their respective mandates within the statutory arrangements in Government, NGOs have become local implementing agencies for bilateral and multilateral donor funded programmes and projects particularly at the grassroots. Since the Introduction of Value added Tax (VAT) on all Imports into the Country, it was necessary for Government to counter fund these Institutions by meeting Local Taxes.
The Government needed to improve transparency, accountability and operational efficiency in the use of budget resources and assess whether national priorities are being met within the PEAP strategy. It was also necessary to establish a centralized M&E system to track budget performance at the line Ministry, Sector and District levels; support to sector wide approaches; support to the Development Committee to upgrade its capacity to appraise projects; and support to the Development Management System. This would address the existing gaps in determining whether national expenditure priorities are being attained, operational efficiency of the Development Committee and an infrastructure network linking all implementing agencies with the center.
Goal
The goal is to improve the management of the budget process for poverty reduction.
Specific objectives:
- Establish an effective M&E system for the budget
- Improve the capacity of Sector Working Groups for effective sector planning
- Improve the capacity of the Development Committee to programme appraisal
- Improve capacity for Data Management System
The PAF was set up in the 1998/99 Financial Year in order to channel resources from HIPC debt relief to key sectors identified in the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (1997), namely; Rural Roads, Agriculture Extension, Primary Healthcare, Water & Sanitation and Primary Education. Substantial additional donor resources have been mobilized towards these sectors. The coordination of the virtual fund requires a centralised institutional arrangement to track the resources; advice on the allocation of the resources within PEAP areas; spearhead the execution and monitoring of the fiscal decentralisation. The project is intended to provide the technical support to achieve specific objectives and critical needs as deemed appropriate.
These reports are the result of the first-ever Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) exercise in Uganda. They bring together the voices and perspectives of the poor consulted in twenty-four rural and twelve urban communities in nine districts of Uganda on a pilot basis. The exercise is a unique partnership comprising of Government represented by the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, nine pilot district authorities, civil society organisations (both NGOs and academic institutions) and donors.
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The United States of America Government requires that a percentage (usually 10%) of its balance of payments support to developing countries be remitted to the local USAID mission in local currency. These funds are used for operating expenses of the mission. Since the support is utilized mainly for debt relief, it does not generate local currency (i.e. shillings). The Trust Funds requirement must be met, and have to be paid annually indirectly from the savings from debt relief.
Objectives
- To support the operations of the USAID mission in Uganda.
- Improve payments of debt maturities.
- Smooth flow of USAID assistance.
- Improve donor confidence in the Uganda government.
Financing
Government provided U Shs. 1,505,505,000.00 in 2004/06, and will provide the same amount in 2005/06.
Over the last decade, the economies of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have registered uneven rates of economic growth, although all three countries have embraced poverty eradication programmes. Equally, there is determined effort by the Heads of State to re- establish the EAC and market the region as a single investment location. Despite financial sector development, access to long term finance continues to be severely limited, particularly for priority private sectors investments such as agriculture, industry and tourism. Therefore, EADB continues to play a crucial role as the engine for mobilizing such development financing and as an execution agency for EAC programmes, thus justifying part-capitalisationn by the three governments. Capitalization is required to give the bank the financial muscle to provide resources to the private sector and give sufficient cushion against insolvency. Kenya and Tanzania have already allocated funds towards the bank's capitalization. Uganda made its first contribution in 2004/05.
Objectives
To enhance development in the Member Countries of East Africa and to assist the countries achieve some of their developmental goals.
Government attaches great importance to the role the private sector plays in supporting economic development. The Medium Term Competitiveness Strategy was formulated to create a favourable environment for the private sector to grow, become profitable and compete both locally and abroad. The Secretariat is the critical link in the tri-partite relationship between Government, private sector and donors in the implementation of the strategy. It is the focal point for coordinating and monitoring MTCs by keeping track of performance indicators, benchmarks and policy actions, and briefs stakeholders for appropriate action.
Although Uganda has a great potential in Tax Revenue Collection, there is still a weakness of a narrow tax base and widespread tax evasion. Increasing tax revenue collection is a critical component of the Poverty Reduction Support Programme that has been agreed with the World Bank
Tax Policy is concerned with the design of a tax system that is capable of financing necessary level of public spending in as efficient and equitable way as possible. The tax system should (i) raise enough revenue in ways that are equitable to finance essential expenditures without recourse to excessive public sector borrowing(ii) raise the revenue in ways that are equitable and that minimise disincentive effects in economic activities; (iii) do so in ways that do not deviate substantially from international norms, and (iv) aim to reduce dependence on donor funding.
Objectives
- Provide a system for collection and analysis of revenue data from URA, UBOS and other Departments.
- Provide senior government officials and policy-decision makers with analysis, information and data to monitor the performance and identify the constraints in revenue administration.
- Develop officials in the Tax Policy Department so that they can assess the macro-economic impacts of alternative tax and revenue interventions and to advise Government accordingly and are able to consider social equity and environmental impacts of alternative revenue collection interventions.
- Develop a process so that policy and strategy developed for further improvements to tax and revenue policy, administration and monitoring in the medium to long-term, is supported by Government and other donors.
- Provide appropriate skills so that TPD can steer/support/make recommendation for the development and the management of the other Government departments implementing tax policies.
- Develop a comprehensive needs assessment to be carried out to define the priorities for a second phase of the programme to strengthen the capacity of the Tax Policy Department.
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