UN DESA | DPAD | Development Policy Analysis Division
Capacity Development and Advisory Services
Uganda
DPAD/UN-DESA has been implementing capacity development and policy advisory activities in Uganda since 2008. Financed by the Development Account, these activities aim at assessing the impact of existing socio-economic policies and at formulating and evaluating development strategies that will help Uganda faster achieve the development goals. The main areas of development policy which are covered by DPAD's capacity development initiatives in Uganda under past, current and forthcoming projects include: financing strategies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), maximizing the development impact of international support measures in least developed countries (LDCs), and enhancing the coherence of macroeconomic and social policies.
Activities are implemented with the overall support from the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development of Uganda. DPAD collaborates closely with the United Nations Development Program country office in Uganda for administrative support. The World Bank provides technical assistance during implementation of capacity development projects.
- Projects
- Activities
- Outputs
- Partners
- Removing constraints in utilizing trade-related international support measures for Least Developed Countries (2012–2015)
- Strengthening Macroeconomic and Social Policy Coherence through Integrated Macro-Micro Modelling (2011–2013)
- Graduation Strategies for Least Developed Countries in Asia and Africa (2008–2011)
- Realizing the Millennium Development Goals through socially inclusive macroeconomic policies (2006–2011)
- 16-17 October 2013–Presentation of policy notes and project outputs (Entebbe and Kampala, Uganda)
- 11-14 September 2012 — Second intensive training workshop (Kampala, Uganda)
- 7-9 March 2012 — First Intensive Training Workshop on "Strengthening Macro-Micro Modelling Capacities to Assess Development Support Measures and Strategies" (Entebbe, Uganda)
- 17–20 October 2011—Scoping mission and inception workshop
(Entebbe, Uganda) - 28-29 June and 11-12 August 2011— Uganda provided key inputs to training and peer review workshops on trade-related international support measures for LDC WTO Members (Geneva)
- 11 September 2010 — Final country meeting under the project "Realizing the MDGs through Socially-Inclusive Macroeconomic Policies" (Kampala, Uganda)
- 10-13 May 2010 — Second regional training workshop under the project "Realizing the MDGs through Socially-Inclusive Macroeconomic Policies" (Pretoria, South Africa)
- 10–11 February 2010 — In preparation of an Expert Group Meeting to review the content and implementation strategy of a draft survey on trade-related support measures for LDCs, Uganda filled out a pilot draft survey, in order to provide first hand experience to the EGM and possible insights where the surveys would need to be revised (Geneva, WTO Secretariat)
- 4–6 November 2009 — Inception regional workshop under the project "Realizing the MDGs through Socially-Inclusive Macroeconomic Policies" (Entebbe, Uganda)
- Report "Maximizing Development Impacts of International Support Measures to LDCs: Pilot Study for Uganda" (2012)
- Country study "Assessing Development Strategies to Achieve the MDGs in The Republic of Uganda" (2011)
- Application of microsimulation methodology
- Social Accounting Matrix for MAMS
- Uganda Summary Results on the use of WTO provisions and preferential market access
- Bureau of Statistics
- Economic Policy Research Centre
- Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
- Ministry of Tourism, Trade and Industry
- UNDP Uganda
A team of experts was formed to participate in the implementation of the project "Realizing the Millennium Development Goals through socially inclusive macroeconomic policies". These experts were associated with the following institutions:
- Economic Policy Research Center (EPRC)
- Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
- UNDP Uganda