Throught the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MoIA), Government rolled out e-registry to ensure increased effective and efficient public service delivery, transparency and citizen participation. This is intended attaininig effective and efficient public service delivery.
This will help avoid digital fragmentation of services and data; improve sharing and reusing of information among MDAs; improve information exchange between MDAs; and increase cooperation between MDAs. This is all geared towards reinforcing government’s rate of service delivery, accountability and transparency.
Developed a Policy review framework to finalize the Financial Sector Development Strategy. This Strategy aims at reducing financial exclusion and access barriers, developing credit infrastructure, building out the digital infrastructure for efficiency, and empowering and protecting individuals with enhanced financial capability. This is in line with the Development Plan Implementation Programme’s objective under NDP III of strengtheninging Government’s capacity for development planning.
The 2021 Annual Transport Observatory report of the Northern Corridor Transit and Transport Coordination Authority highlights status of indicators that gauge performance of the Northern Corridor. The Corridor covers all East Africa partner states except Tanzania, spanning 13,185 km of road network.
Tourism accounts for about 10% of GDP of each EAC partner states, 7% of employment, and about 17% of export earnings. It is also estimated that 70% of tourism in the East Africa region is dependent on wildlife. Therefore, factors such as poaching, habitat loss and fragmentation, climate change, expansion of agricultural activities and human-wildlife conflict continue to threaten wildlife conservation efforts.
The Bill intends to regulate the relationship between landlords and tenants, to reform and consolidate the law relating to letting of premises, to provide for the responsibilities of landlords and tenants in respect to the letting of premises.
The Bill will oversee the establishment of the Uganda National Mining Company which will manage the government’s commercial holding and participating interests in mineral agreements. The Bill mandates the National Mining Company to hold 15 per cent free equity in all large and medium mining ventures as well as have the right to pay up 20 per cent extra shares in the mining ventures at the commercial rate.
The amended Act is intended to remove inconsistencies in the law by introducing flexibility in its implementation and to streamline operations of the electricity sector. Particularly, the Bill proposes to remove the monopoly of the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company and Uganda Electricity Distribution Company as the single buyers and suppliers of generated electricity. The Bill further intends to grant power to the Electricity Regulatory Authority (ERA) to classify licences and as well as increase funding ERA from 0.3% to 0.7% from the revenues generated from the sale of electricity.
Parliament passed the Physical Planners’ Registration Bill, 2021 to provide for the establishment of a Physical Planners' Registration Board; to provide for the powers and functions of the Board and to provide for the registration of physical planners in the country among other provisions. The Bill addresses the absence of a legal framework through which physical planners are regulated. Thus, it intends to solve the challenges of unplanned physical development in urban and rural, violation of minimum physical planning standards and abuse of environmentally sensitive areas.
Government approved the Minerals Policy 2019 to provide a regulatory framework for sustainable minerals industry. Similarly, the Electricity Act 1999 is currently undergoing review to accommodate new trends in the energy sector.
