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PRE RESENTATION ENTATION to ev

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NDP DP MI MID-TERM ERM REVIEW EW FINDI DINGS NGS AND D RECO COMME MMENDATION DATIONS S

BY: dhizaala

aala. . S.

  • S. moses

es Head monitoring and evaluation, npa

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THE NDP MID-TERM REVIEW WAS ENTIRELY SUPPORTED BY UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

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Background

  • The NDP Mid-Term Review (MTR) is a

requirement under the Comprehensive National Development Planning Framework adopted by Government in 2007; and under the NDP itself

  • The exercise started in March 2013 and was

completed in December 2013

  • The MTR was undertaken by a consortium of

two firms: Delta & Reev Consult with 6 local & 6 international consultants

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NDP MTR Objectives

  • Review the progress made in the

first half of the NDP Implementation

  • Make recommendations to improve

implementation of NDP1 over its remaining period

  • Inform preparation of the next NDP

2015/16-2019/20 (NDP2)

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The NDP MTR Themes

The MTR comprises six themes:

  • Policy and Strategic Direction
  • Institutional Framework
  • Results Framework
  • Political Economy
  • Economic Management
  • Development partnership

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Crosscutting studies

undertaken to inform MTR

  • Social Protection
  • Children
  • Environment
  • Gender
  • Human Rights
  • Democracy & Political Governance

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Results: Trends in NDP growth indicators

Development Indicator NDP Baseline 2008/09 Vision Baseline 2010 Actual 2010/11 Actual 2011/12 NDP Target 2011/12 NDP Target 2014/15 Vision Target 2040 GDP growth (% pa) 6.2 N/S 6.3 3.4 7.0 7.5 N/S GDP at market prices (UGX ) 29,972 N/S 39,051 49,087 46,934 72,094 N/S Per capita income (US$) - market prices 506 506 485 487 667 837 9,500 % of people below the poverty line 28.5 24.5 N/A N/A 27.4 24.4 5.0 Population growth rate (%) N/S 3.2 N/A N/A N/S N/S 2.4 Income distribution (Gini coefficient) N/S 0.43 N/A N/A N/S N/S 0.32 Export proportion of GDP (%) 7.5 N/S 10.8 16.1 N/S N/S N/S US$ labour productivity per worker - agriculture N/S 390 N/A N/A N/S N/S 6,790

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Results : Trends in NDP growth

indicators

Development Indicator NDP Baseline 2008/09 Vision Baseline 2010 Actual 2010/11 Actual 2011/12 NDP Target 2011/12 NDP Target 2014/15 Vision Target 2040 Population growth rate (%) N/S 3.2 3.2 3.2 N/S N/S 2.4 Income distribution (Gini coefficient) N/S 0.43 N/A N/A N/S N/S 0.32 Export proportion of GDP (%) 7.5 N/S 10.8 16.1 N/S N/S N/S US$ labour productivity per worker - agriculture N/S 390 N/A N/A N/S N/S 6,790 US$ labour productivity per worker – industry N/S 3,550 N/A N/A N/S N/S 24,820 US$ labour productivity per worker – services N/S 1,830 N/A N/A N/S N/S 25,513 US$ labour productivity per worker – total N/S 1,017 N/A N/A N/S N/S 19,770 Gross capital formation as %

  • f GDP

N/S 24.1 N/A N/A N/S N/S 30 Savings as % of GDP N/S 14.5 N/A N/A N/S N/S 35 8

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Employment

Development Indicator NDP Baseline 2008/09 Vision Baseline 2010 Actual 2010/11 Actual 2011/12 NDP Target 2011/12 NDP Target 2014/15 Vision Target 2040 Composition of GDP (%) – Agriculture 23.0 22.4 24.0 24.9 22.2 21.4 10 Composition of GDP (%) – Industry 24.6 26.4 26.9 27.7 24.3 24.0 31 Composition of GDP (%) – Services 52.4 51.2 49.1 47.4 53.5 54.6 58 Labour force in agriculture (%) 73.3 65.6 N/A N/A 71.4 69.3 31 Labour force in industry (%) 4.2 7.6 N/A N/A 4.7 5.4 26 Labour force in services (%) 22.5 26.8 N/A N/A 23.9 25.3 43 Labour force employed (%) 70.9 70.9 75.4 N/A 73.1 78.2 94 Number of manufacturing jobs N/S N/S 13,424 16,725 N/S N/S N/S

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Socio-economic transformation

Development Indicator NDP Baseline 2008/09 Vision Baseline 2010 Actual 2010/11 Actual 2011/12 NDP Target 2011/12 NDP Target 2014/15 Vision Target 2040 National skills gap N/S N/S N/S N/S N/S N/S N/S Literacy level (%) 73.6 73 73.2 74.6 76.9 82.2 95 Life expectance at birth (years) 50.4 51.5 54.1 54.5 51.3 52.4 85 Human development index 0.514 N/S 0.446 0.422 0.531 0.572 N/S World competitiveness index ranking 108/130 N/S 121/130 121/139 100/130 85/130 N/S Doing business survey ranking 112/183 N/S 123/183 123/183 104/183 82/183 N/S Population in urban areas (%) 12 13 13.0 14.7 12 20 60

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Progress on NDP

  • bjectives

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Trends in NDP income and equity indicators

Development Indicator NDP Baseline 2008/09 Vision Baseline 2010 Actual 2010/11 Actual 2011/12 NDP Target 2011/12 NDP Target 2014/15 Vision Target 2040 Per capita income (US$) 506 506 485 487 667 837 9,500 % of population below the poverty line 28.5 24.5 24.5 24.5 27.4 24.4 5.0 Global gender gap ranking 43/130 N/S N/A 29/135 N/S N/S N/S Gender development index N/S 0.51 N/A N/A N/S N/S 0.9 Income distribution (Gini coefficient) N/S 0.43 N/A N/A N/S N/S 0.32

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Availability and quality of gainful employment

Increased from 70.9% in 2008/09 to 75.4% by 2010/11 (marginally in excess of the NDP target of 75.3% for 2011/12), but this takes no account of any changes to the levels of under-employment.

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Stock and quality of economic infrastructure

Trends in NDP infrastructure indicators

Development Indicator NDP Baseline 2008/09 Vision Baseline 2010 Actual 2010/11 Actual 2011/12 NDP Target 2011/12 NDP Target 2014/15

Vision Target 2040

% of standard paved roads to total network 4 4 16.3 15.8 N/S 5.3

80

% of cargo freight

  • n rail to total

freight 3.5 3.5 9 10 N/S 17.8

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% of accessing power from national grid 11 11 12 10 N/S 20

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Electricity consumption (kWh per capita) 69.5 75 75 77.8 N/S 674

3,668

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Access to quality social services

Trends in NDP social service delivery indicators

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Development Indicator NDP Baseline 2008/09 Vision Baseline 2010 Actual 2010/11 Actual 2011/12 NDP Target 2011/12 NDP Target 2014/15 Vision Target 2040 DPT 3 pentavalent vaccine coverage 85 N/S 76 / 91 90 / 60 88 (MoH) 87 N/S Proportion of qualified workers 56 N/S 56 58 60 (MoH) 85 N/S HCs without medicine stock-outs 26 N/S 43 49 / 70 60 (MoH) 65 N/S % deliveries in health facilities 34 N/S 39 40 41 (MoH) 40 N/S OPD utilisation 0.8 N/S 0.9 / 1.0 1.0 / 1.2 1.0 (MoH) 1.5 N/S Infant mortality rate per 1,000 live births 76 63 N/A 54 N/S 41 4 Contraceptive prevalence rate (%) 24 N/S N/A N/A N/S 50 N/S Under 5 mortality rate per 1,000 137 96 N/A 90 114 60 8 Maternal mortality rate per 1,000 live births 435 438 437 438

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131 15 Child stunting as % of under 5s N/S 33 N/A N/A N/S N/S Net enrolment rate primary (%) 93.2 N/S 97.5 95.5 95.0 96.4 N/S

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Access to quality social services

Trends in NDP social service delivery indicators

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Development Indicator NDP Baseline 2008/09 Vision Baseline 2010 Actual 2010/11 Actual 2011/12 NDP Target 2011/12 NDP Target 2014/15 Vision Target 2040

Net enrolment rate secondary (%) 23.5 N/S 25 23.2 28 35 N/S Net completion in secondary (%)

35.0 N/S 41.1 N/A N/S N/S N/S Pupil - teacher ratio in primary 53 N/S 47 53 47 43 N/S Pupil classroom ratio in primary 72 N/S 58 58 66 61 N/S

Student – teacher ratio in secondary 19 N/S 19 N/A N/S N/S N/S Student – classroom ratio in secondary

38 N/S 45 45 N/S N/S N/S BTVET enrolment (thousand) 30 N/S 39 56 250 390 N/S Water consumption (m3 per capita) N/S 26 N/A N/A N/S N/S 600 % access to safe piped water N/S 15 N/A N/A N/S N/S 100 Rural water coverage 66 N/S 65.8 64 (MoWE) 64 (MoWE) 77 N/S Urban water coverage 60 N/S 67 69 (MoWE) 68 (MoWE) 100 N/S Sanitation coverage 62 N/S 68 69.6 (MoWE) 73 (MoWE) 77 / 80 N/S

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Science, Techn, innovation & ICT to enhance competitiveness

Trends in NDP science, technology, innovation and ICT indicators

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Development Indicator NDP Baseline 2008/09 Vision Baseline 2010 Actual 2010/11 Actual 2011/12 NDP Target 2011/12 NDP Target 2014/15 Vision Target 2040 Ratio of national budget allocated to STI and ICT 0.3 N/S N/A N/A N/S 0.6 N/S Ratio of S&T to Arts graduates 1:5 N/S N/A 1:5 N/S 1:3 N/S Level of ICT deepening (million) N/S N/S 14.6 17.2 N/S N/S N/S % urban centres with public internet access N/S N/S 36 N/A N/S N/S N/S Manufactured exports as % of total exports 4.2 4.2 4.4 6 N/S 12 50 ICT goods and services as % of exports N/S N/A N/A N/S N/S 40 Technology achievement index N/S 0.24 N/A N/A N/S N/S 0.5 Public expenditure on R&D as % of GDP N/S 0.1 N/A N/A N/S N/S 2.5 Innovation -patents registered per annum N/S 3 N/A N/A N/S N/S 6,000

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Human Capital Development

Trends in NDP human capital development indicators

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Development Indicator NDP Baseli ne 2008/ 09 Vision Baseli ne 2010 Actual 2010/ 11 Actual 2011/ 12 NDP Target 2011/ 12 NDP Target 2014/ 15 Vision Target 2040 Life expectance at birth (years) 50.4 51.5 54.1 54.5 51.3 52.4 85 Literacy rate (%) 73.6 73 73.2 73.3 76.9 82.2 95

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Good Governance, Defence and Security

  • Uganda’s score on the corruption perception

index (CPI) has been oscillating between 2.4 and 2.9 during the last five years.

  • The baseline score for Uganda in 2008/9 was

2.6. However the country’s performance worsened in 2011 (2.4) before it improved slightly in 2012 to 2.9. The Vision 2040 target is 7.1 and there is need for greater efforts to move there.

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Sustainable population and use of natural resources / the environment

  • unmet family planning demand continuing to

be high at 34%; with a contraceptive prevalence rate of 30%; and with only 58% of birth attended to by a skilled professional

  • life expectancy falling from 54 years in 2010

to 52.7 years in 2012; with maternal mortality ratio increasing from 430 in 2008 to 438 in 2011; with the rate of decline of infant mortality slowing down since 2005;

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Sustainable population and use of natural resources / the environment

  • Urbanisation exceeded 5% per annum, the

urbanisation process is taking place in a haphazard manner, with no control and regulation

  • forest cover was 18% (2009) against a target
  • f 24% in 2014/15.
  • 92,000 hectares of forest cover are lost

every year with 34% lost in private forests and 12% in the protected forests

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Sustainable population and use of natural resources / the environment

  • An estimated 11,268 square kilometres (30%)
  • f Uganda’s wetland ecosystems

representing 4.7% of the Uganda land area has been lost since 1994.

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Key MTR Findings

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Specific Findings

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Comparisons of 5 year GoU on-budget sector allocations for MoFPED MTEF and NDP MTEF

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Comparisons of relative importance of

  • ff- and on-budget finance for first 3 NDP

years

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Comparisons of on-budget planned and actual financial releases by sector

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Comparisons of percentage allocation of funding to broad sector clusters

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General Findings

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Institutional Framework

  • Most institutions in the country (Public Sector,

Private Sector, Financial Services Sector and Civil Society) are weak and innovations are required to fast track building of their capacity to deliver the NDP/Vision Goals &

  • Objectives. Weaknesses attributed to: history,

state formation process i.e private sector founded on politics (colonialism & racism, Ugandanization of economy) compared with

  • rganic processes elsewhere.

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Institutional Framework

  • Absence of deliberate strategies for private

sector development – i.e. strategies to develop indigenous road construction sector are lacking

  • Financial sector is growing but still unable to

provide affordable medium & long term financing to bolster strategic factor driven growth E.g Agric, Infrastructure, Education, Health, etc. Financial Services Sector greatly depends on Govt bonds which kills incentive to support lending to private sector.

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Institutional Framework

  • Many legal frameworks and policies are weak which

renders their enforcement untenable

  • Conflicting, overlapping & unclear mandates among

various institutions

  • Political interference at all levels has often inhibited

execution, innovation & effectiveness e.g IGG, KCCA, Makerere, MAAIF , etc

  • Lack of corporate governance culture within NGOs –

not accountable to anyone and represent their own interests more than that of their beneficiaries

  • Weak media impact – explained as a result of – not

being competitive – over-regulated, poor culture of listenership, high illiteracy rates, low civic competence

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Results Framework

  • Performance against the majority of NDP

theme and objective indicators has generally been disappointing

  • Baseline and target setting in the NDP

results framework needs improvement

  • There is widespread agreement on the

importance of equitable development around Uganda, but little recognition of this in the results framework

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Results Framework Cont’d

  • Weak public sector management, poor

accountability for results, corruption and mind sets are still major constraints to national development

  • The implementation of core projects and
  • ther development investments is being

seriously constrained by limited access to finance and land disputes

  • Development planning is considered in

piece-meal way and many potential synergies and intra-sector efficiency gains remain untapped

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Results Framework Cont’d

  • There

remains huge potential for streamlining the strategic direction for national development in Uganda and there have been some steps in the right direction

  • The current levels of funding for national

development are not enough to achieve many of the NDP targets

  • There is misalignment between sector

financial allocations in the NDP and the budgets.

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Results Framework Cont’d

  • There are major differences btn financial

releases and budget appropriations across sectors

  • There are major differences between

NDP priorities and projects that appear in the Public Investment Plan

  • Administration costs are taking a growing

proportion of development spending, leaving less for the delivery of services

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Economic Management

  • Suggests that the NDP is not currently on

track to achieve its key macro-economic

  • bjectives and targets
  • Following the introduction of new monetary

policy instruments in mid-2011 interest rates reached 23% by November 2011. This policy was very successful in adjusting inflationary expectations and restoring macro-economic stability

  • The mix of policy instruments used over the

last 3 years has not generally supported growth

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Economic Management

  • Fiscal policy has been relatively conservative

for much of the period

  • There has been mixed progress on alignment
  • f NDP with the budget. The high level

budget process has not yet been effectively integrated with the NDP

  • There is positive progress on aligning macro-

economic modelling frameworks used by NPA, the MOFPED and Bank of Uganda

  • Output based budgeting and sector planning

systems are not closely aligned with the NDP

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Economic Management

  • Weak investment planning and lack of

integration of NDP priorities into the annual PIP and SIPs process has constrained NDP Implementation

  • NDP projects are not automatically ranked

as the highest priority projects in the annual PIP and SIP processes

  • NPA, MFPED & sectors have not actively

engaged to assess the relative importance of proposed investment projects

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Economic Management

  • Agriculture has consistently underperformed

in relation to NDP expectations and its performance is still largely driven by climatic conditions

  • “Doing business” in Uganda is not getting

easier and in some instances costs have increased.

  • There are a growing number of examples of

actions being undertaken to unlock the binding constraints to growth.

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Economic Management

  • Lack of financing will remain a problem for the

duration of NDP1.

  • Domestic Revenue mobilisation has been hit by

slow growth and slow progress on policy reforms.

  • Balancing tax collection with private sector

growth and development is challenge to domestic resource mobilisation.

  • Progress
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development

  • f

innovative financing mechanisms has been slower than expected.

  • Capital Markets have continued to develop

despite the slowdown in growth.

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Policy and Strategic Direction

  • The theme of the NDP

, “Growth, Employment, and Socio-Economic Transformation” is relevant to the Ugandan context, and is in line with the country’s Constitution, Vision 2040, and NRM Manifesto

  • The overall conceptual framework or “Egg

Analogy” has proven to be helpful in terms of prioritisation

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primary growth sectors, complementary sectors, social services and enabling sectors for socio-economic transformation.

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Policy and Strategic Direction

  • Overall alignment between the sector
  • bjectives in the NDP and the budget is

mixed- In many cases, the SIPs are more aligned to the annual National Budget Framework Paper outcome statements than to the NDP objectives. SIPs are critical for alignment of sector BFPs and budgets to NDP

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Policy and Strategic Direction

  • There has been good progress in liberalising

and regulating the banking sector and pension reforms, and relatively good progress in several other areas such as controlling inflation, managing a market exchange rate and harmonising capital market policies.

  • Slow or no progress has been made in other

areas such as expanding the taxation base, streamlining tax exemptions and ensuring allocative and technical efficiency in public spending.

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Political Economy

  • The

NDP has not been consciously implemented in a coordinated manner

  • There is fundamental question around the

capacity of the state to deliver an ambitious plan of the NDP’s nature, given severe weaknesses in service delivery, as well as the scale of corruption in Government

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Political Economy

  • Despite recent progress in reducing

poverty, a significant number of new ‘chronically poor’ have emerged, that are largely not catered for within current systems.

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Development Partnerships

  • In both real terms and as a percentage of GDP

development assistance has continued to decline during the NDP period, but in nominal terms it has remained constant and for the moment donor financing remains very important in Uganda’s development

  • During the NDP there has been a clear re-

allocation of both “on budget” and “off budget” project aid in favour of infrastructure and energy investments in line with the NDP’s aim to broaden Uganda’s development strategy to structural transformation to raise growth and living standards

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Development Partnerships

  • A number of donor technical assistance

programmes are building the capacity required for effective NDP implementation

  • Without a Partnership Policy in place it

has been difficult for the NDP to be a focus for progress on the wider agenda for improving aid effectiveness

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PROGRESS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF THE NDP CORE PROJECTS

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Progress on the core projects

Core Project State Of Progress Water for Production 1. Construction

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five irrigation systems The project is on-track: Doho, Agoro, Mubuku rice irrigation schemes have been rehabilitated. For Olweny rice irrigation scheme and Kiige, work is in progress. Coordination between the Ministry of Water and Environment and Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry and Fisheries is very critical for the success of these initiatives. Oil and Gas

  • 2. Refinery development

There is progress on this project- procurement process to identify the lead investor is on going, bids solicitation is expected to end in April 2014 and an Investor to be on board in June 2014. Project is expected to be finalised within the period of NDPII.

  • 3. Construction of inter-state

distribution pipeline For the pipeline for refined product, the Project is experiencing very slow progress -procurement for studies at initial stages. For crude oil pipeline development, the commercialization plan (Memorandum of Understanding, MOU) between GOU and upstream companies was signed in 5th February 2014.

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Progress on the core projects Cont’d

Core Project State Of Progress Energy Infrastructure

  • 4. Construction of Karuma

HEP project (600MW) Work has commenced. Contractor is on site but financial closure not yet

  • concluded. Project is expected to be finalised within the period of NDPII.
  • 5. Construction of Ayago

HEP project Memorandum with construction company has been signed; feasibility study underway.

  • 6. Construction of Isimba

HEP Project (140MW Work has commenced. Contractor on site but financial closure not yet

  • concluded. Project is expected to be finalised within the period of NDPII.
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Progress on the core projects

Core Project State Of Progress Transport Infrastructure

  • 7. Rehabilitate the existing railway

lines Rehabilitation of Malaba-Kampala and Tororo-Gulu have been rehabilitated, but Kasese-Kampala remains undone

  • 8. Construct the standard gauge

rail from Malaba to Kampala, Malaba- Nimule, Kampala- Kasese-Mirama Hills Preliminary engineering studies underway, cooperation agreements with Heads of state have been signed, project expected to be completed by 2018, solicitation of funding underway.

  • 9. Improve transport infrastructure

and safety for Greater Metropolitan Kampala Feasibility study for flyover from Queensway to Jinja Road roundabout

  • finalised. Rapid Bus Transport System not yet implemented. Challenges:

lack of integration of transport modes; lack of coordination mechanisms between KCCA and neighbouring districts of Wakiso and Mukono in planning and joint implementation of projects.

  • 10. Improve water transport on

lake Victoria Slow progress Mining

  • 11. Construction and development
  • f phosphate industry in Tororo

Memorandum of Understanding has been signed, mining lease issued and preliminary works have begun.

  • 12. Development and production
  • f iron ore ingots

No tangible progress. Fragmentation of surface rights has hampered implementation of the project. There is need to manage on-going small

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Progress on the core projects

Core Project State Of Progress Others 13. National non-formal skills development programme Strategic plan for the BTVET program has been developed and incorporates the non-formal training project. Seed fund provided by Government for the “Skilling Uganda Programme” and the institutional framework for implementation is being worked on. 14. Construction and development of 4 regional science parks and technology incubation centres (SPTIC) No tangible progress.

  • 15. Information Technology

(IT) business parks construction project No progress

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Sector specific assessments, including that on cross-cutting issues available in the review reports

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Key Overall Recommendations

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Key Overall Recommendations

  • Improving alignment
  • Aligning the PIP, SDPs, DDPs and MTEF to the

NDP, including linking more closely outcomes and outputs used by the financial management systems such as the Output Based Tool (OBT) to the NDP

  • Re-structuring the sector-wide working groups

(SWGs)

  • OPM to more effectively quality assure and

approve sector and district work-plans, BFPs, and Policy Statements

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Key Overall Recommendations

  • Improving policy and strategic direction
  • Institutional and legal framework be designed

and established to strengthen generation of policy and strategic direction for the country for

  • ver-riding choices and aspirations in terms of

development, governance and global positioning.

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Key Overall Recommendations

  • Improving macro-economic management
  • NDP

macro-economic framework requires strategic coordination of fiscal and monetary policy objectives to achieve both growth and macroeconomic stability

– Expected higher levels of spending to support NDP implementation – Broaden tax base to bring more informal sector businesses into the tax net – More explicitly aligning resources to NDP implementation

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Key Overall Recommendations

  • Focus on infrastructure and systems for supply
  • f production inputs and affordable finance
  • Reducing cost of doing business
  • Fast-track energy projects and deal with

underlying factors regarding access and high communication and transport costs.

  • In-depth comparative analysis of taxes that are

perceived to be punitive due to the narrow tax base

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Key Overall Recommendations

  • Improving Institutional Frameworks
  • Strengthen current institutional architecture in

ways that improve its efficiency and effectiveness by accelerating implementation

  • f public sector reforms such as restructuring of

sectors and ministries i.e:

– Reduce unproductive functions within government; – Reduce conflicting and overlapping mandates; and – Strengthen coordination

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Key Overall Recommendations

  • Improving local government performance
  • Rationalise the expenditure assignments so

that those functions that have been decentralised and cannot be served by districts are lifted either to the regional level or back to central government.

  • Review local government financing under the

unconditional grants to include the management functions of planning, supervision and monitoring of service delivery

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Key Overall Recommendations

  • Improving

management

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development assistance

  • Review the Development Partnership Policy to

take care of emerging development assistance issues

  • Manage development assistance in the context
  • f a new Partnership Policy that codifies

commitments

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both sides

  • f

the development partnership

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Key Overall Recommendations

  • Enhancing planning during preparation of the next NDP
  • Assess for adoption the following areas of focus:

– Transformation of agriculture – Development of small and medium sized enterprises – Development of transport and energy infrastructure – Skills development – greater regional integration – alignment of planning, budgetary, policy and legal and implementation frameworks to the NDP and Vision 2040 – fast tracking of the mapping, registration and strengthening

  • f land management

– improving access to family planning; and improved urban planning

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