As part of the UN-Women Uganda Women Count II project, EPRC will provide technical and leadership roles in building the capacity of data producers and users to bridge the gap in Gender Statistics in Uganda. Leveraging on the data produced by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBoS) and…
Women leaders in the western district of Mbarara have expressed optimism that it is possible to advocate change to lessen the burden of unpaid domestic care work on females. During an advocacy training in Bwizibwera Mbarara on April 3-5, 2023, women leaders said they were confident that their…
EPRC has today April 17, 2023 begun a five day training on a capacity-building exercise on data analysis for EPRC researchers as part of the capacity development plan for the financial year 2022/2023. The training is and will be based on the existing knowledge and skills gap among…
Yesterday (April 13, 2023) Economic Policy Research Centre Researchers sat down in a meeting to discuss the proposed National Employment Strategy 2023-2028 and the action plan for 2023-2025. The strategy's aim is to anchor the employment strategy in Uganda’s Vision 2040 which is necessary to ensure that the…
Economic Policy Research Centre has received a greenlight to carry out a Regulatory Impact Assessment (RIA) for the sugarcane sub-sector in Uganda. Mr. Patrick Ocailap, the Deputy Secretary to the Treasury (DPST), said the RIA will “lead to a serious policy direction that is necessary to take care…
With Uganda’s public debt estimated to reach 53% of GDP in 2023, Economic Policy Research Centre, with support of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC), is assessing the impact of debt policies and COVID-19 shocks on households and firms in a constrained resource and institutional environment. This includes…
In brief Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, who captured power in 1986, has set himself an ambitious development target. Through the Parish Development Model launched recently, he is seeking to lift the country’s annual GDP growth rate to at least 7% by 2040 – up from 5.1% projected for…
The opening of the global economy from the COVID-19 pandemic came with an unprecedented problem: rising commodity prices. Bank of Uganda’s state of the economy report of December 2022 shows that international inflationary pressure persisted and became widespread, driven by supply-side shocks in agricultural commodities, energy, and non-energy…
Unending land disputes are impacting agriculture production and holding many Ugandans into poverty. According to Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC) Executive Director Dr. Sarah Ssewanyana, land tenure security impacts agriculture and areas where there are serious land issues like Kabale have seen their poverty [levels] go up. Dr.…
Seasonal changes due to climate change remain one of the biggest challenges facing Uganda today. The increasing temperatures, drought, erratic rainfall, and floods adversely affect farmers’ yields. This creates an uncertain future for farmers and everyone who depends on agriculture as a source of livelihood. According to the…