The Russia-Ukraine war has caused global disruptions. Developing countries, including Uganda, have borne an especially high price for this ongoing crisis given their dependence on fertilisers and cereals from these two countries. While Bank of Uganda projections indicate that inflation is to continue declining, returning to 5 percent…
Local Government (LG) administration units in Uganda have continued to have inadequate funding to provide basic public service goods. Yet an indicator of a bigger problem than funding, is that many of these units return money to the consolidated fund despite lacking basic education and health services, among…
Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc and reverse the gains made in creating resilient and sustainable social-economic systems supporting young people’s lives, livelihoods and businesses. For instance, the International Labour Organisation shows that one in six young people aged 18-29 stopped working (about 17.4 percent) because…
The Bujagali hydropower dam, on the Bujagali Falls, is located on the Victoria Nile on Dumbbell Island, in Jinja. It is an important hydropower project in Uganda and was initially approved in 1994 as the lowest cost option to increase power production in the country with a total…
During the extraordinary Summit of the African Union Heads of State and Government held in March 2018 in Kigali (Rwanda), the agreement establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) was presented for signature, along with the Kigali Declaration for the launch of the AfCFTA. On January 1,…