Uganda: Economic Development, Environment, & Health
- ActionAid International in Uganda (Kampala, Uganda; Johannesburg, South Africa)"...working in Uganda since 1982 to end poverty and injustice. ActionAid is among the leading anti-poverty agencies working directly with over one million poor and excluded people in 50 districts of Uganda."
--See especially: Publications - 10th Africa Symposium on Statistical Development, January 13-15, 2015, Kampala, Uganda (via Statistics South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa)
- African Development Bank Group on Uganda (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
- Bank of Uganda (Kampala)
- Bioline Publications Abstracts and Document Service (Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, UK)
- View the abstracts without charge; view online or receive full texts with paid registration.
- African Crop Science Journal. -- Kampala: African Crop Science Society, 1995-
- Full list of journals
- Centre for the Study of African Economies (Oxford, UK)
- CSAE Home Page
- Selected Working Papers on Uganda
--"Increasing students' aspirations: the impact of Queen of Katwe on students' educational attainment," by Emma Riley (2017). Working paper ; 2017-13.
--"Inflation forecasting models for Uganda: is mobile money relevant?" by Janine Aron, John Muelbauer,
and Rachel Sebudde (2015). Working paper ; 2015-17.
--"What's love got to do with it? An experimental test of household models in East Uganda" by Vegard Iversen et al. (2006). Working paper ; 2006-01.
--"Understanding the determinants of income inequality in Uganda" by Ssewanyana N. S. et al. (2004). Working paper ; 2004-29.
--"A client-community assessment of the NGO sector in Uganda" by Abigail Barr & Marcel Fafchamps (2004). Working paper ; 2004-23.
--"The resources and governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda" by Abigail Barr et al. (2004). Working paper ; 2004-06.
--"Changes in poverty in Uganda, 1992-1997." (1999).
--"Changes in poverty in Uganda, 1992-1996" by Simon Appleton ...[et al.] (1998).
- CSAE Working papers (Search)
- Cities Alliance on Uganda, 2011-- "Cities Without Slums" (Washington, DC)
- Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA): Uganda Trade Statistics COMSTAT Data Hub. (Lusaka, Zambia)
- 8th Annual International Conference on Computing and ICT Research -- ICCIR 2012, 5-7 August 2012, Makerere University, Kampala, UgandaFormerly known as the "International Conference on Sustainable ICT Capacity in Developing Countries."
- Demographic and Health Surveys: Uganda Indicators, Datasets, and Reports (2016 and earlier) (Calverton, Maryland)
- DENIVA--Development Network of Indigenous Voluntary Associations (Kampala, Uganda)[Founded in 1988]... and has grown to over 700 Member Organizations (MO), located in all regions of Uganda. DENIVA’s program areas are:
(i) Governance and Human Rights; (ii) Sustainable Livelihoods; and (iii) Strengthening of Civil Society Organizations. Gender Mainstreaming and Youth Empowerment." - East African Community = Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki (Arusha, Tanzania)
- This is the official website of the regional intergovernmental organization (encompassing Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) which was (re)established in 1999 by treaty (see "Documents & Publications"). The site includes information about the EAC, current news, and related links.
- EACOP : East African Crude Oil Pipeline Project (Uganda and Tanzania)
- African Arguments: "The bold campaign to defund the East African Crude Oil Pipeline.," June 22, 2022. (London)
- The East African: "EAC MPs tell off EU counterparts, back oil pipeline project," November 8, 2022. (Nairobi)
--See also: "Lenders save stalled Eacop with $300 million," October 8, 2022. - East African Crude Oil Pipeline Ltd. (London, UK; Kampala, Uganda) Official site
- "The East African Crude Oil Pipeline: why are some East Africans opposed?" (2022) By Abby Morenigbade. Georgetown Environmental Law Review. March 25, 2022.
- EITI--Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative: "Connecting the dots with the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline," November 24, 2020 (Oslo, Norway)
--See EITI on Uganda below - The Guardian: "'Monstrous' East African oil project will emit vast amounts of carbon, data show," October 27, 2022. (London)
- IPP Media: "Environment precautions taken in EACOP project," September 24, 2022 (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
--See also: "Oil firms protest EU's EACOP vote," September 17, 2022. - The Petroleum Authority of Uganda: The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) Project (Kampala)
- "Rivalry in East Africa: The case of the Uganda-Kenya crude oil pipeline and the East Africa crude oil pipeline," (2022) By Brendon J. Cannon and Stephen Mogaka. The Extractive Industries and Society. Vol. 11 (September 2022). --via ScienceDirect
- StopEACOP: Stop the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Kampala, Uganda)
See below - Tanzania Petroleum Development Corporation (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania)
--Brief description of EACOP - Uganda. Directorate of Petroleum: "East African Crude Oil Pipeline" (Kampala)
- Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Uganda (Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)The site offers very general information about the centre. Established in 1994, "EPRC is conceived as an institution for high level research on policy issues ... aims at enhancing and building national capacity for policy formulation/analysis and decision making. EPRC maintains close contact with Government departments and other clients in addressing urgent problems where practical solutions can be found."
- EITI--Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative : Uganda (Oslo, Norway)Uganda was admitted to the EITI in August 2020 as a member country. "The country has discovered commercially recoverable oil reserves, with current oil exploration work taking place in the Albertine Graben region. Uganda's proven crude oil reserves stand at 6.5 billion barrels with 1.4 billion barrels that are commercially recoverable. The country has a large artisanal and small-scale mining sector."
--See: Uganda Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative 2019-2020 report (May 2022) - ELDIS Country Profiles (Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)Search for Uganda: This service compiles and indexes links to online full texts (requiring Adobe Acrobat PDF), related web sites, and print publications in the IDS library on a variety of subjects pertaining to Uganda, especially in the fields of agricultural economics, trade, health, governance, and education.
- European Centre for Development Policy Management: Search for Uganda (Maastricht, The Netherlands)"ECDPM aims to improve international cooperation between Europe and countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACP). It does this through capacity building for policy management, the promotion of policy dialogue between ACP countries and Europe, and the provision of information and facilities for knowledge exchange."
- FAO--Food and Agriculture Organization on Uganda (Rome, Italy)
- FAO Country Profile on Uganda
- FAO Aquastat Programme -- Uganda, 2015A profile of Ugandan water resources. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
- FAO Document Repository on "Uganda"
- Friedrich Ebert Stiftung in Uganda (Kampala)
- FES in Uganda
- Economic development and industrial policy in Uganda." (November 2017) 44 pages in PDF format
- Government of Uganda--Ministries (See Republic of Uganda below)
- The International Monetary Fund: Uganda Country Info (Washington, DC)Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
- International Rivers Network: Bujagali Falls Dam -- Campaign and Reports, 2000-- (Berkeley, California)
- Lake Victoria Basin: Atlas of Our Changing Environment (2017) -- Arendal, Norway: GRID-Arendal, 2017.
110 pages in PDF format.
- The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) (NBI Secretariat, Entebbe, Uganda)General information about the programme and its committees. "[Launched in Dar es Salaam in February 1999] ... The NBI is a regional partnership within which countries of the Nile basin have united in common pursuit of the sustainable development and management of Nile waters. ... supersedes the disbanded 'Technical Co-operation Committee for the Promotion of the Development & Environmental Protection of the Nile Basin.'"
- Nyaka AIDS Orphans Project (via East Lansing, Michigan)The official web site of a community-based project with a wholistic approach to education for children and their families in southwestern Uganda. "To provide a high-quality, free education, both formal and informal, to children who have been orphaned due to HIV/AIDS in order to counteract pervasive hunger, poverty and systemic deprivation.
- Oxfam GB on Uganda (Oxfam International, London, UK)Campaigns and reports from Oxfam and its activities in Uganda.
- Policy Project: Uganda (Futures Group, Washington, DC)
- RUFORUM--Regional Universities Forum for Capacity Building in Agriculture (Kampala, Uganda)"...established by ten Vice Chancellors in 2004, is a consortium of 129 African universities operating within 38 countries spanning the African continent. RUFORUM is coordinated by a Secretariat hosted by Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda."
--See especially: African journal of rural development (2016--) ; Member Universities ; and, RUFORUM Institutional Repository - Republic of Uganda -- Agencies and Ministries (Kampala)
- Bureau of Statistics
- Energy and Mineral Development
- Finance, Planning and Economic DevelopmentGeneral information, directory, current budget speech, and historical documents.-- FPED Publications (budget, legislations, speeches, etc.)
- HealthThis official web site includes information about programs and policies, news, publication lists, and recent statistics.--See especially: Coronavirus (Pandemic), COVID-19
- Lands, Housing and Urban Development
- National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) of Uganda (Kampala)This site includes general information about NEMA, its activities and downloadable publications, environmental news, and a recent annual report. See also: List of Environmental Practictioners. "[Established in 1995] NEMA is a semi-autonomous institution under the Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment, legally established as the principal agency to implement the national policy for the management of the environment in Uganda."
- National Population Council
--See especially: The State of Uganda Population Report, 2019 ; All reports (since 2008)
- Uganda Investment Authority
- Water and Environment
- Bureau of Statistics
- SEATINI--Southern and Eastern African Trade Information and Negotiations Institute SEATINI Uganda (Kampala, Uganda)SEATINI Uganda serves as the East African regional coordinating office. The website includes annual reports, policy briefs, and legal documents on selected Ugandan and regional East African trade issues, commentaries, workshop and conference reports, etc.
- StopEACOP: Stop the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (Kampala, Uganda)An environmental and human rights NGO advocates for the people of Uganda and other neighboring countries in East and Central Africa...[and for] the clean renewable energy of the future and all the benefits that come with it."
--See especially: Publications - THETA: Traditional and Modern Health Practitioners Together Against AIDS and other Diseases (Kampala, Uganda)The website contains basic information about the activities and goals of THETA. Even though some publications are listed, none are available online.
- Uganda AIDS Commission (Kampala)General information about the commission and the center, its programs, research updates, news, and related links. "The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) was established by Statute of Parliament in 1992 and placed under the Office of the President to coordinate the multi-sectoral efforts."
- Uganda: atlas of our changing environment (2009), published by the Uganda National Environmental Management Authority and the United Nations Environment Programme. (See UNEP below)
- Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Kampala, Uganda)This official website includes a wealth of information about the activities of the bureau, links to web sites of several government ministries, and recent statistics in HTML format, including exerpts from the 2002 Population Census, information on education, health, labor, energy, migration, etc. In addition, the site includes a databank, with downloadable statistics in EXCEL format.--See also: National Population and Housing Census 2014--Main Report (2016) --via United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistics, New York, USA.
- Uganda Debt Network (Kampala, Uganda)
- "Uganda Debt Network is an advocacy and lobbying coalition of NGOs, institutions and individuals formed in 1996." UDN claims to have over 100 member organizations as of 2003.
- UDN Newsletters
- UDN Policy Reports
- Debt Unit Publications
- Uganda National NGO Forum--The NGO Blueprint (Kampala, Uganda)"...an inclusive national platform for NGOs to think and strategize on matters of mutual interest. With increasing interest from districts, we grew into a membership organization. Our strength and membership has since grown from 50 members in 2001."
-- Publications: reports on UNNGOF itself and on Uganda policy & development issues - Uganda Virus Research Institute / International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (Entebbe, Uganda)"This research is sponsored by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), working as partners with the Government of the Republic of Uganda since August 2001 to accelerate the development and testing of vaccines to prevent HIV/AIDS."
---Publications
---News
--National HIV Drug Resistance Prevention, Monitoring, and Surveillance Activities: National Status Report (August 2018)
---See also: Uganda AIDS Commission above - United Nations Agencies on Uganda -- Economy
- United Nations Development Programme on Uganda (New York)-- UNDP in Uganda (2019-2020) : reports and news
- UNEP--United Nations Environment Programme:
-- Uganda, atlas of our changing environment. (Kampala, Uganda: National Environment Management Authority; Nairobi, Kenya: UNEP, c2009) 220 pages in PDF format. - UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Search for Uganda Country Indicators, Policy Developments, and Overview (New York)
- United Nations Development Programme on Uganda (New York)
- United States Agencies on Uganda -- Economy (Washington, DC)
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Uganda
- USAID on Uganda -- Country Information
- Development Experience Clearinghouse (General)Search the entire USAID database for downloadable (in PDF) reports on projects and studies on Uganda.
- USAID--Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) on East Africa
- FEWS NET Uganda Center Current news and analysis of the food security situation on Uganda -- read online or download as a PDF files; plus links to other FEWS NET resources.
- Regional Trade Analytical Agenda (USAID-RTAA, Nairobi, Kenya)-- RTAA Home Page (General)
"Unrecorded cross-border trade between Kenya and Uganda: proceedings of a workshop held at the Mayfair Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, December 6, 1996," by Chris Ackello-Ogutu and Protase Echessah. PDF file. SD publication / Technical paper ; no. 58 (July 1997).
"Unrecorded cross-border trade between Kenya and Uganda: implications for food security," by Chris Ackello-Ogutu and Protase Echessah. PDF file. SD publication / Technical paper ; no. 59 (July 1997).
- USAID on Uganda -- Country Information
- United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
- United States. Department of Commerce. International Trade Administration: Search by Country--Trade & Industry Analysis
- United States. Energy Information Administration on Uganda
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Uganda
- Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) (Kampala, Uganda)This site offers directories of prominent Ugandan women in all sectors of Ugandan society, news and opinions, documents on women's issues in Uganda, and related links. "WOUGNET's goal is to promote the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) by women organisations and individuals for the better being of Ugandan women."
- The World Bank on Uganda (Washington, DC)
- The World Bank in Uganda, 2010--A brief country profile, project reports, news, and related links.
- Uganda Poverty Assessment Overview (June 2023)
- The Growth Challenge: Can Ugandan Cities Get to Work (March 2015) Uganda economic update, 5th ed.
-- Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2015. 90 pages in PDF format
--See also: Summary, fact sheet, & press release - Building Women's Economic & Social Empowerment through Enterprise: Experimental Assessment of the Women's Income Generating Support Program in Uganda (April 2013) By Christopher Blattman [et al.]
-- Washington, DC: The World Bank, 2014. 63 pages in PDF format
- Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper and Assessment, 2000.
- Post-conflict reconstruction: Uganda (September 1998) OED Précis ; no. 171. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1998.
- Designing technical assistance projects: lessons from Ghana and Uganda (September 1995) OED Précis ; no. 95. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1995.
- The World Bank in Uganda, 2010--
- World Resources Institute -- Papers on Uganda (Washington, DC)
- Mapping a better future: how spatial analysis can benefit wetlands and reduce poverty in Uganda (2009) -- Kampala, Uganda: Wetlands Management Department, Ministry of Water and Environment, Republic of Uganda ; Washington, DC: WRI, c2009.51 pages in PDF format.
- "Tools for local-level rural development planning: combining use of participatory rural appraisal and geographic information systems in Uganda." (2004) By Frank R. Turyatunga. Discussion paper. -- Washington, DC: WRI, 2004. (PDF or HTML formats)
- "Commerce, kings, and local government in Uganda: decentralizing natural resources to consolidate the central state." (2003) By Frank Emmanuel Muhereza. Environmental governance in Africa working paper; no. 8. -- Washington, DC: WRI, 2003. (PDF format)
- "Decentralization, politics and environment in Uganda." (2002) By Nyangabyaki Bazzara. Environmental governance in Africa working paper; no. 7. -- Washington, DC: WRI, 2003. (PDF format)
- "Decentralisation and wildlife management: devolving rights or shedding responsibility? Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda." (2002) By Agrippinah Namara, Xavier Nsabagasani. Environmental governance in Africa working paper; no. 9. -- Washington, DC: WRI, 2003. (PDF format)
- WRI Home Page (General)
- Mapping a better future: how spatial analysis can benefit wetlands and reduce poverty in Uganda (2009) -- Kampala, Uganda: Wetlands Management Department, Ministry of Water and Environment, Republic of Uganda ; Washington, DC: WRI, c2009.51 pages in PDF format.