This report highlights migration, the movement of people from one usual place of residence to another as an essential matter. The world has about 184 million migrants and 43 percent live in low and middle-income countries. Migration issues are sweeping across and turning crucial as a result of the harsh differences between and within countries regarding real wages, labor market opportunities, demographic patterns, and climate costs.

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This report examines the role for natural resource wealth in driving Africa’s economic transformation and the implications of the low-carbon transition for resource-rich economies. Resource wealth remains central to most Sub-Saharan African economies such as Uganda, and significant untapped potential is in the ground. Subsoil assets such as metals, minerals, oil, and gas are key sources of government revenues, export earnings, and development potential in most countries in the Africa region.

A properly governed migration regime is envisaged to make significant contribution to sustainable development in countries of origin, transit destination including providing benefits and opportunities for both migrants and their families. This report emphasizes the need for Member States under the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) that guarantees proper and effective migration governance and ensure its effective implementation.

This report gives a general appraisal of the human rights situation in Uganda in 2021 in fulfilment of Uganda Human Rights Commission’s mandate that the Uganda Human Rights Commission has the honour and pleasure to present to you its 24th Annual Report. The report goes ahead to give an insight of the period leading to and after the 2021 general elections. Other key emerging issues in 2021 included the twin bombings, banishment of persons from their societies and teenage pregnancy.

The 2022 report takes into account police’s challenges and its efforts to curb crime. The report indicates a general increase in crime rate in 2022 compared to the previous year. There was an 18 percent increase in the number of crimes reported to Police from 196,081 cases reported in 2021 to 231,653 cases mainly due to the full opening of the economy after the Covid-19 lockdown and growing confidence to report crime to Police.

Uganda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report 2021 provides a national overview of progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, using the latest available data and estimates. It tracks the country’s progress towards the 17 Goals with in-depth analyses of selected indicators for each Goal.

Second in series, the aforementioned report focuses on African Governance Futures 2063 Scenarios through utilising future studies as its scientific platform. This report represents a collective effort that highlights rigorous, evidence-based research spanning a period of one year. Secondly, Africa can harness incoming changes and direct the trajectory of national, regional and global governance, economic development, and environmentally sustainable practices.