The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Uganda team, recently paid a courtesy call to the Ministry of Finance to strategically discuss and generate a common understanding of the newly released PEPFAR...
L-R: FCU's Alfred Kizza, Ag. Coordinator FCU, Paulo Kyama, the Global Fund's Linden Morrison and Dr Saman Zaman together with Dawson Kalemba of the Local Fund Agent (PwC) The Global Fund team, led by...
(L-R) Director General of Health Services, Dr Henry Mwebesa, Ecobank Managing Director, Grace Muliisa, Malaria Free Uganda Board Chairman, Mr Ken Mugisha, Health Minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, Coordinator of the Funs Coordination Unit...
Uganda will join the rest of the world on 24th March 2023 to commemorate World TB Day under the theme: Yes! We can End TB. The country will on the same day commemorate the...
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria and Unitaid recently welcomed the World Health Organisation’s recommendation for the widespread use of a new class of mosquito net that uses two active ingredients...
The U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) Uganda team, recently (March, 2 nd 2023paid a courtesy call to the Ministry of Finance to strategically discuss and generate a commonunderstanding of the newly...
The first ever National Community Health Strategy (NCHS) (2021/22 – 2025/26) was recently (February 2023) by the Minister for Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng Ocero at Speke Resort, Munyonyo. Speaking at the launch event,...
Nine out of 10 random Ugandans interviewed ahead of today’s Budget Speech have said they only care about how to survive while another eight out of 10 people told this publication that they only...
President Museveni is today in Kibuku District to launch the much-publicized Parish Development Model (PDM), a programme government is banking on to lift 17.5 million Ugandans in 3.5 million households out of poverty. The...
The PDM is aimed at increasing household incomes thereby facilitating sustainable transformation. It is particularly targeting those households that are leaving in subsistence production. It is anchored in the National Development Plan III and the...
The Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Ramadhan Ggoobi has said the government must rise to the challenge of undoing its old age problem of poor policy implementation. He...
The Early Efforts (Pre-1980) In 1925, the Petroleum Potential of Uganda was documented by a Government Geologist E.J. Wayland, in the publication “Petroleum in Uganda”. The report documented the existence of oil seepages along the...
The global shift to clean energy will not have a big toll on Uganda’s oil as many have predicted. President Museveni In a bid to preserve the environment, the global call for a shift...
Summary A joint permanent commission of ministers, permanent secretaries and government technocrats has for nearly four years held meetings to iron out issues affecting the trade between the two neighbours. In a 2019, in...
The Resource Enhancement and Accountability Programme (REAP) is at the centre of implementing the Government of Uganda’s Public Financial Management (PFM) Reform Strategy July 2018-June 2023. REAP works to strengthen Public Financial Management at...
President Yoweri Museveni signed on Sunday the East African Crude Oil Pipeline project agreement with his Tanzanian counterpart Samia Hassan Suluhu. “The EACOP Tripartite Project Agreement has been signed by all parties with commitment...
Uganda Airlines, the country’s national carrier received its second Airbus A330-800 neo aircraft at the Entebbe International Airport as it continues preparation for building its international long-haul flight network. The plane arrived at the...
The EITI Board has approved Uganda’s application to join the EITI, making it the EITI’s 54th member country and the 26th in Africa. EITI Board Chair, Rt Hon. Helen Clark, welcomed Uganda to the...
The World Bank Board of Directors today approved $300 million in additional financing to the Uganda Intergovernmental Fiscal Transfers Program for Results (UgIFT) to boost local governments (LGs) service delivery in education, health, water and environment,...
