The Millennium Summit held in New York in September 2000 was a land mark event that brought together a number of countries and heads of state to form a global consensus of the challenges facing humanity. More important to the summit deliberations was to discuss and come up with what needed to be done to overcome the challenges facing the world development initiatives resulting into formulation of the Millennium development Goals (MDGs)
The Poverty Status Reports explore the extent to which Uganda’s economic status changes overtime and how such change relates to poverty outcomes. Poverty status reports provide comprehensive reviews of implications of these changes for the poverty reduction agenda. Since the launch of the National Development Plan (NDP I) in 2010, there has been perception among stakeholders
The Government Outlays Analysis Reports (GOARs) were one of the expected outputs under the MDG Reporting and Poverty monitoring component of the United Nations development Programme (UNDP) Country Programme Action Plan (2006-2010) for Uganda. They were being produced by the Economic Development Policy and Research Department of the MoFPED to track the trends and patterns of Public Expenditure and Development results on an annual basis.
The production of the Sustainable Development Reports (SDRs) has been innovated after the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era. Beginning with 2015, Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development will be producing the Sustainable Development Reports (SDRs) in a series every after three years
The Directorate of Economic Affairs in the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development is composed of four departments that include: Macro Economic Policy Department (MEPD), Economic Development Policy and Research Department (EDP&RD), Financial Services Department (FSD) and Tax Policy Department (TPD).
Bank of Uganda publications are sourced from several departments within the Bank, which include;
Government prioritizes agriculture as the key driver for national growth, wealth creation, employment and food security. Recently, the budget allocation has been doubled although remaining relatively low compared to sectors like Public Administration and Works, Housing and Urban development to mention but a few.
Development of all nations depends on the ability for young children’s healthier growth to become able and energetic youthful persons to catalyse all growth initiatives. Climate Change and urbanisation have been identified as major challenges that will have an increasingly significant impact on wellbeing of the world inhabitants especially children of the developing world in the coming decades.
