As of 2025, Uganda’s implementation of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (UGEITI) demonstrates moderate progress. In FY2022/23, Uganda scored 78.5/100, reflecting meaningful gains in stakeholder engagement and impact, though challenges remain around full transparency.
The East Africa Insurance Outlook is an annual report that provides insights and analysis on the latest trends and developments and growth opportunities in the insurance sectors of the East African Community (EAC), notably Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Ethiopia. The report provides direction for insurers, regulators, investors and policymakers as the industry navigates a rapidly evolving economic landscape.
World leaders gathered in Belém, Brazil this week for the annual United Nations climate summit to confront a sobering reality: Global emissions from fossil fuels are set to reach a new high in 2025, the goal of limiting temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels is out of reach, and the United States did not even bothe
Uganda’s Second Biennial Update Report demonstrates the country’s commitment to addressing climate change through comprehensive data collections, reporting, and implementation of mitigation actions. Covering the period from 1995 to 2019, the report highlights a steady increase in greenhouse gas emissions, predominantly from the agriculture, forestry, and land use (AFOLU) sector, which accounts for about 76% of total emissions.
The 2024 Uganda Water Accounts provide a comprehensive, physical and economic assessment of water supply, use, abstraction, and productivity across the economy, aligned with the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting (SEEA) framework. This systematic dataset links water resources with economic activities, facilitating integrated planning for water sustainability and socioeconomic development.
The 2024 edition of the National State of the Environment report highlights Uganda’s natural resource base and how it is under increasing pressure from rapid population growth, agricultural expansion, urbanization, and climate change. Forest cover continues to decline while wetlands are being degraded and converted for farming and construction. These changes are weakening the country’s ecological systems, reducing biodiversity, and diminishing the ecosystem services that sustain livelihoods, agriculture, and hydropower generation.
The Country Climate and Development Report 2025 underscores Uganda’s urgent need to adopt a comprehensive and prioritized approach to climate action, balancing its long-term development aspirations with its high vulnerability to climate shocks.
The Business Climate Index (BCI) improved marginally by 3.7 index points from 88.8 in the previous quarter (January-March 2025) to 92.5 in the current quarter (April-June 2025). Increased business activity, sales turnover, profitability, and improved selling prices are responsible for the slight increase in business sentiment during the current quarter.
The Africa Sustainable Development Report (ASDR) is an annual publication that monitors the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the African Union’s Agenda 2063. The 2025 edition was produced under the theme: Advancing sustainable, inclusive, science-and evidence-based solutions for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals for leaving no one behind, and the African Union's Agenda 2063. The Report focused on SDGs 3, 5, 8, 14, and 17, along with corresponding goals of Agenda 2063.
The Global Innovation Index 2025 (GII) takes the pulse of innovation against a background of steady but slow global economic growth, shrinking innovation finance and sluggish productivity. It reveals the most innovative economies in the world, ranking the innovation performance of around 130 economies while highlighting innovation strengths and weaknesses. In the Global Innovation Index (GII) 2025, Uganda was ranked 124th out of 139 economies.
