Overview
Uganda Vision 2040, EAC Vision 2050, and Africa Agenda 2063 as well as the SDG must be accelerated by taking advantage of all opportunities at our disposal as a country.
NDP III comes in play to address this. The NDP III aims at increasing household incomes and improving the quality of life of Ugandans through sustainable industrialization for inclusive growth, employment and sustainable wealth creation.
To comprehensively develop the real economy and address the strategic bottlenecks, NDP III has laid out 20 Programmes to promote a coordinated approach to achievement of the development objectives.
Successful implementation of NPED
In the past, the Government of Uganda has implemented reforms, with varying degree of success, to address many development challenges such as :
- Macroeconomic instability.
- Infrastructure deficits.
- Poor governance and armed conflicts.
- Limited coordination and cooperation among Ministries.
The government is now responding to the challenge of limited coordination and cooperation in planning, budgeting, monitoring and evaluation among other problems.
The limited coordination and cooperation is partly attributed to overlapping roles and responsibilities, duplication of interventions/budgets, limited funding to implement interventions and “sector-egos” with some state agencies failing to cooperate on joint interventions.
In 2019, the government (National Planning Authority) embarked on the agenda of strengthening institutional coordination and cooperation through the Programme-based approach (PBA).
The PBA is a process that enables the government to formulate and realise national priority development objectives through corresponding national programmes formulated and implemented in a coherent, coordinated and participatory manner to ensure sustainability and development impact.
