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UPCOMING EVENT

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

200
Expected participants
4
Expected sessions
5 November 2026
Date
Mestil Hotel, Kampala
Venue
In person
Format
A speaker addressing an earlier Doing Business Forum from the lectern. Not a photograph of this edition.

Photograph from an earlier Forum — awaiting this edition's own

Competitiveness Indicators

Uganda’s Business Competitiveness at a Glance

Key indicators shaping the cost, speed and ease of doing business.

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Trade with the EU

Uganda's trade position, FY2024/25

Trade flows

Exports grew 80.8% in a single year

US$ million, financial year
Uganda's exports to and imports from the EU, FY2017/18 to FY2024/25, in US$ million05001,0001,5002,00017/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/2424/25Exports to EUImports from EU

Exports reached $1.93bn in FY2024/25 while imports held flat.

Trade balance

A $1.16bn surplus, the largest on record

US$ million, exports less imports
Uganda's trade balance with the EU by financial year, in US$ million17/1818/1919/2020/2121/2222/2323/24+$1,163M24/250
SurplusDeficit

Six deficit years give way to the strongest position Uganda has held.

Priority Sectors

Uganda's Priority Sectors

Uganda's Tenfold Growth Strategy targets four sectors with the highest potential for job creation and investment return.

Agro-Industry
Agro-Industry

From farm to factory — Uganda's agro-industrial opportunity

Uganda produces some of East Africa's most diverse agricultural output. We're building the processing capacity to match.

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Tourism
Tourism

Gorillas, Nile, and a continent's most biodiverse landscape

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.

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Minerals, Oil & Gas
Minerals, Oil & Gas

Beneath Uganda's surface — a resource investment opportunity

Oil reserves in the Albertine Graben, mineral deposits across multiple regions, and a regulatory environment being reformed for investor confidence.

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Science, Technology & Creatives
Science, Technology & Creatives

Africa's next digital economy is being built here

Uganda's youthful population, growing tech ecosystem, and creative industries represent one of East Africa's most compelling digital investment stories.

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Financing Schemes

Find Financing That Fits You

Public 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.

Schemes in the register9 schemes

Credit facilities, guarantees and grants from 9 public and development finance providers.

Available without collateral5 of 9

The requirement that stops most small businesses borrowing, waived or substituted.

Open to micro-enterprises6 of 9

Eligibility recorded per scheme, so you can tell before applying whether you qualify.

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A speaker addressing an earlier Doing Business Forum from the lectern. Not a photograph of this edition.
Upcoming forum
5 November 2026

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