Kampala - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Uganda in partnership with the country’s Ministry of Gender, Labour and Social Development have launched YouthConnekt, a platform aimed at  addressing issues of youth unemployment and inclusion in economic and political processes. The programme which...

Kampala - Members of the Private Sector have been asked to match up the public sector’s efforts towards supporting refugees. The call was made by Mr. Patrick Bitature, the Chairperson of Private Sector Foundation Uganda (PSFU) during the Uganda Solidarity Summit’s Private Sector Side Event focusing on the...

Kampala - On 21st and 22nd June 2017, the world gathered in Uganda to stand in solidarity with the country as it hosts over 1 million refugees. This was during the Uganda Solidarity Summit on refugees. The summit, hosted by H.E President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni and the United Nations Secretary General, Mr. Antonio...

Kampala - The UNDP Country Director, Ms. Almaz Gebru says strengthening the capacity of district local governments is key to the sustainability of Uganda’s progressive refugee hosting model. Ms. Gebru observed that districts are at the forefront of hosting refugees, including maintaining peaceful co-existence of...

Kampala - The UNDP Country Director, Ms. Almaz Gebru says strengthening the capacity of district local governments is key to the sustainability of Uganda’s progressive refugee hosting model. Ms. Gebru observed that districts are at the forefront of hosting refugees, including maintaining peaceful co-existence of...

Entebbe - The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Country Director, Ms. Almaz Gebru has tasked nations to fast track finding solutions to biodiversity financing as one of the pathways to sustainable development. Ms. Gebru said that the cost of depleted plant and animal species will be so high and the...

KAMPALA – Uganda shall not build walls to keep out refugees, Hon. Hilary Onek, the Minister for Disaster Preparedness and Refugees has affirmed. He made this affirmation during the opening of the first-ever dialogue between district and national leaders from Uganda’s 12 refugee hosting districts. These districts...

Kampala - Professor Justin Yifu Lin – a renowned economist from China has called on Uganda to focus on export oriented industrialisation that targets global markets. He made this call during his three day visit to the country this week – where he called on Government to focus on industrialisation if it wants to...

Kampala - A team of young innovators have won Uganda’s first weather hackathon competition. The young innovators under their group Agrigap, won the weather hackathon after three days of rigorous work to develop an application that would ease dissemination and utilisation of weather information in Uganda. The...

New York, 6 December 2016 - Uganda’s 2015 National Human Development Report has been announced as one of the four winners of the 2016 Awards for Excellence in Human Development Reporting. This was announced by the Human Development Report Office (HDRO) during the 2016 Awards for Excellence in Human...

As part of activities to mark the UN Month, UNDP Uganda together with the Office of the Prime Minister will host the official screening of the film for Northern Uganda. The screening will be held on Thursday, 20th October 2016 at Century Cinema in Kampala. Please find the full length film here.    About the film...

The declaration follows a similar one signed by religious leaders in West Africa against all forms of extremist activities in the name of Islam Kampala, Uganda: African Muslim religious leaders and scholars from Eastern and Southern Africa gathered in Kampala have agreed on a framework to enable them work together...

Mubende - Annet, a 30 year old mother of five living in Mubende town used to spend over UGX 115, 500 (about $35) every month on charcoal used to prepare food for her family. This was a big expense for her as it accounted for 50% of her monthly income. Recently however, this changed due to the introduction of...