How do PPDs relate to Clusters and Competitiveness By: Professor Maggie Kigozi, Executive Director, UIA Secretary, Uganda Presidential Investor Round Table (PIRT) 2009 Public-Private Dialogue International Workshop Vienna, Austria April 28-30, 2009 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

UGANDA Vision 2025 “ Prosperous People, Harmonious Nation, Beautiful Country.” Poverty Reduction Strategy Country Paper (PRSCP) Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) Target: By 2017 Poverty will have been reduced to less than 10% Private Sector Led Economy 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

UIA – VISION AND MISSION “Make Uganda the leading Investment destination”. MISSION “Promote and facilitate investment projects, provide serviced land, and advocate for a competitive business environment”. 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

CONSTRAINTS TO THE PRIVATE SECTOR 2005 Exchange Rates Corruption Interest Rates Inflation VAT Income Tax Customs Duty Tax Policy Availability of Power Corporate Tax 2004 Cost of Finance Macroecon. Inst Corruption Electricity Tax Admin. Tax Rats Anti-competition Skills-Workers Customs & regu Theft & disorder Land access Labour regulation Licence/permits 1996 Electricity Tax Policy Tax Administration Cost of Finance Access to Finance Utilities Bureaucracy/ Corruption 2001 Access to Finance Tax Admin. Bureaucracy/ Corruption Transport Tax Policy Lack of Incentives GOU Discriminatory Interventions Sources: UIA Investor Surveys, FIAS Report 2003 Investment Climate Assessment Uganda 2004 & FPC Survey 2005 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

UGANDA PRESIDENTIAL INVESTOR ROUND TABLE Chairman – H.E Y.K Museveni 22 Private Sector Members(11 Local, 11 Foreign) Secretariat – UIA,PSFU and Min. of Finance In attendance – relevant Ministers, World Bank, IMF, IFC 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

PIRT STRUCTURE 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

PIRT (Con’d) 2004 – 2006 Regulatory Reform Infrastructure Agriculture ICT Education 2007 – 2009 Business Climate Tourism Agribusiness BPO Mining/Petroleum 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

MATRIX EXAMPLE - ICT Obstacle: Access to better and quicker services Recommendations Actions taken Outstanding issues Responsible Ministry/Agency Improve International Access options Ministry of ICT (MoICT) set up the Uganda Broadband Infrastructure Strategy Team (UBIST) to study and provide an independent evaluation on the optimum utilisation of the available options: East African Submarine Cable System (EASSY) by a consortium of operators with the region The East African Marine System (TEAMS) by the Kenyan Government SEACOM by a group of Americans investors and the Agha Khan UhuruNet, an initiative of the NEPAD UBIST report is ready and recommendations are to be forwarded to Cabinet by 28th-Feb-2009 Beginning of the Second National Backbone infrastructure construction MoICT 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

SOME ACHIEVEMENTS ICT Ministry set up ICT Infrastructure in place ICT BPO Strategy Tourism Infrastructure prioritised Education Vocational colleges countrywide Incentives for Agriculture Energy Provision Relevant Skills - Geology Inst., Tourism, Nursing, Research, Agriculture National ID Pension Sector Reform Credit Reference Bureau 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

ICT CLUSTER Policy, Laws Regulators Investment Promotion – One Stop Shop, Funding Skills – University, Schools Mobile – Licenses? Infrastructure –VSAT, Fibre Optic, Submarine Cable Private Sector Investment 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

Success Story – ICT Indicators PERIOD Dec 2002 Dec 2004 June 2008 Fixed Telephone Lines 59,472 82,495 166,552 Mobile Cellular Subs 505,627 1,165,000 6,374,506 Internet/e-mail Subs 6,500 8,000 17,000 Mobile Cellular Operators 3 6 VSAT International Gateways 8 10 Internet services Providers 17 18 20 Private FM Radio Stations 117 148 200 Tele-density 2 5 20.6 Courier Services Providers 11 19 Pay Phones 3,200 4,634 37,595 Private TV Stations 22 31 44 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

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Some New Multinationals 2007/8 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

FDI Inflows 2000 - 2007 Source: Bank of Uganda, Balance of Payments 2007/08 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

Revenue Collections (1991/2 to 2007/08) Source: Uganda Revenue Authority 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

Poverty Reduction Vs Millennium Development Goals Source: MFPED 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

Competitiveness – Doing Business Report Research and Science PIRT 2009 - 2011 Transport/Logistics Competitiveness – Doing Business Report Research and Science Agricultural Sectors – Cotton, Fisheries Petroleum/Mining 9/22/2018 | Uganda Investment Authority

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