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Museveni Unveils Five Year Development Plan
23rd-April-2010
Drawn by National Planning Authority together with the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, the Uganda Five Year National Development Plan is now in it’s initial implementation stage, following its launch at Serena Conference Center in Kampala, Uganda.
Uganda’s National Planning Authority (NPA) recently unveiled a 5-year development plan, following the last development plan that has been in place for the past 40 years.
President Yoweri Museveni launched the five year development plan (worthy 50 trillion Uganda shillings) for the country. The new development plan is expected to focus on issues such as improving human security, eradicating poverty, exploitation and development of natural resources, improvement of the economic, social and trade infrastructure, development of innovative and efficient internationally competitive industries to help ease on the unemployment levels currently prevailing in the country.
Today, 31% of Uganda’s local population lives in poverty. According to the Uganda National Household Survey (UNHS) of 2005/2006, 14% of the total Ugandan labor force of 10 million is either underemployed or unemployed.
The new National Development Plan (NDP), dubbed “Growth, Employment and Socio-Economic Transformation for Prosperity” will act as a guideline for Uganda’s development plans for the next 5 years. The NDP replaces the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) which has been Uganda’s guidebook to eradicating poverty for the past 13 years since its launch in 1997. PEAP officially expired in June, 2008.
According to a statement released by the ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, NDP “will contribute to the attainment of Uganda’s vision of a ‘transformed Ugandan society’ from a peasant to a modern and prosperous country within 30 years.”
The State Minister for Planning, Prof. Ephraim Kamuntu, said that the new development plan would spar development if properly implemented and that the Uganda government would ensure that the plan is achieved by committing enough finances towards the set goals. He farther revealed that over shs50 trillion would be invested to implement the plan over a five year period.
“In the new development plan, one of the challenges identified is improving the quality of our population by empowering the people and this is what we want to address“, said Prof. Kamuntu.
In agreement to this, the Vice Chairperson of the National Planning Authority, Dr. Abel Rwendeire, said that the new development plan has a strong focus on strategies to increase household incomes, enhance human capital development, and increase gainful employment.