Third Annual Doing Business Forum
Unlocking Uganda's Tenfold Growth through the Construction Value Chain: Regulatory Reform, Local Capacity and Infrastructure Investment – Lessons from Ankole Subregion
Mestil Hotel, Kampala
Unlocking Uganda's Tenfold Growth through the Construction Value Chain: Regulatory Reform, Local Capacity and Infrastructure Investment – Lessons from Ankole Subregion
Photograph from an earlier Forum — awaiting this edition's own
Key indicators shaping the cost, speed and ease of doing business.
Tell us what you're here to do. We'll guide you through every step — from first question to final approval.
Registrations, permits, compliance steps — tailored to your business type.
Incentives, land acquisition, sector-specific guidance for foreign and local investors.
Navigate export procedures, certifications, and trade facilitation programmes.
Discover funding schemes, development finance, and credit facilities available to you.
Flag regulatory or bureaucratic obstacles and get routed to the right authority.
Find every licence, permit, and compliance requirement relevant to your sector.
Exports reached $1.93bn in FY2024/25 while imports held flat.
Six deficit years give way to the strongest position Uganda has held.
Uganda's Tenfold Growth Strategy targets four sectors with the highest potential for job creation and investment return.

Uganda produces some of East Africa's most diverse agricultural output. We're building the processing capacity to match.
Explore Agro-Industry
Uganda hosts 10 of Africa's Big Five, half the world's mountain gorillas, and the source of the Nile. Investment in hospitality and eco-tourism is backed by policy and incentives.
Explore Tourism
Oil reserves in the Albertine Graben, mineral deposits across multiple regions, and a regulatory environment being reformed for investor confidence.
Explore Minerals & Oil
Uganda's youthful population, growing tech ecosystem, and creative industries represent one of East Africa's most compelling digital investment stories.
Explore STI & Creatives77 reforms government has committed to, each with the institution answerable for it and where it currently stands. 31 have started moving.
View all reformsPublic financing exists for most Ugandan businesses — credit facilities, guarantees and grants — but it is scattered across the institutions that run it. The register brings the schemes together and records who each one is actually for.
Credit facilities, guarantees and grants from 9 public and development finance providers.
The requirement that stops most small businesses borrowing, waived or substituted.
Eligibility recorded per scheme, so you can tell before applying whether you qualify.
Agreements, financing, markets, institutions and skilling, coordinated across government and open to the private sector.
View all opportunitiesPreferential market-access agreements Uganda has signed — EAC, COMESA, AfCFTA, the EU and others — with the commodities moving under each and the firms already exporting them.
Ministry of Foreign Affairs · Ministry of Trade, Industry & Cooperatives
Concessional credit, guarantees and targeted windows channelled through banks and government agencies to lower the cost of capital for businesses.
Ministry of Finance, Planning & Economic Development
Nineteen Zonal Industrial Skilling Hubs across Uganda's 15 sub-regions, training 12,600 young people a year in trades employers actually need.
Office of the President · Ministry of Education & Sports
Forum editions and published documents
Unlocking Uganda's Tenfold Growth through the Construction Value Chain: Regulatory Reform, Local Capacity and Infrastructure Investment – Lessons from Ankole Subregion
Mestil Hotel, Kampala
Key statistics and highlights on the trade relationship between Uganda and the European Union, including flows, top products and market-access notes.
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