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• African Development Bank Group on Uganda (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire)
  Basic economic indicators and links to other "country operations" reports.
  
  
• Bank of Uganda (Kampala)
  
  
• Bioline Publications Abstracts and Document Service (Electronic Publishing Trust for Development, UK)
  • View the abstracts without charge; view online or receive full texts with paid registration.
  • African Crop Science Journal. -- Kampala: African Crop Science Society, 1995-
  • Full list of journals
  
  
• Centre for the Study of African Economies (Oxford, UK)
  • Working Papers Series -- Abstracts & Full Texts
    Note: See all Full texts and abstracts ; requires Adobe Acrobat.
    -- "What's love got to do with it? An experimental test of household models in East Uganda" by Vegard Iversen et al. (2006). Working paper ; 2006-01.
    -- "Understanding the determinants of income inequality in Uganda" by Ssewanyana N. S. et al. (2004). Working paper ; 2004-29.
    -- "A client-community assessment of the NGO sector in Uganda" by Abigail Barr & Marcel Fafchamps (2004). Working paper ; 2004-23.
    -- "The resources and governance of non-governmental organizations in Uganda" by Abigail Barr et al. (2004). Working paper ; 2004-06.
    -- "Changes in poverty in Uganda, 1992-1997" by Simon Appleton ...[et al.] (1999). Working paper no. 99.22.
    -- "The reconstruction of a macroeconomic dataset for Uganda" by N.M. Henstriddge (1998). Working paper no. 98.3.
    -- "Understanding poverty in Uganda" by Philippa Bevan and Achilles Ssewaya (1995). Working paper no. 95.10.
    -- "Health as an information good: the determinants of child nutrition and mortality ... in Uganda" by John Mackinnon (1995). Working paper no. 95.9.
    
  • CSAE Home Page
  
  
• Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA): Uganda Home Page (Lusaka, Zambia)
  Basic country information, banking infrastructure, investment guidelines, and other major economic indicators.
  
  
• 3rd Annual International Conference on Computing and ICT Research -- SREC07, August 5-8, 2007, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda
  Formerly known as the "International Conference on Sustainable ICT Capacity in Developing Countries." The deadline for proposals is January 1, 2007.
  
  
• Demographic and Health Surveys: Uganda Indicators, Datasets, and Reports (2001-2007) (Calverton, Maryland)
  
  
• Development Gateway Country Overview on Uganda (Washington, DC)
  A clearinghouse of links to a wide variety of organizational websites with economic data. Originally founded by The World Bank, the DG has been an "independent", donor-funded organization since 2001.
  
  
• Directory of Development Organizations: Uganda (2008) (Bert Wesselink, The Netherlands?) PDF format.
  
  
• East African Community = Jumuiya ya Afrika Mashariki (Arusha, Tanzania)
  • This is the official website of the regional intergovernmental organization (encompassing Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda) which was (re)established in 1999 by treaty (see "Documents & Publications"). The site includes information about the EAC, current news, and related links.
  • EAC Statistics Portal
  
  
• ELDIS Country Profiles (Electronic Development and Environment Information System, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK)
  Search for Uganda: This service compiles and indexes links to online full texts (requiring Adobe Acrobat PDF), related web sites, and print publications in the IDS library on a variety of subjects pertaining to Uganda, especially in the fields of agricultural economics, trade, health, governance, and education.
  
  
• European Centre for Development Policy Management: Search for Papers on Uganda (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
  "ECDPM aims to improve international cooperation between Europe and countries in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Pacific (ACP). It does this through capacity building for policy management, the promotion of policy dialogue between ACP countries and Europe, and the provision of information and facilities for knowledge exchange."
  
  
• Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC), Uganda (Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda)
  The site offers very general information about the centre. Established in 1994, "EPRC is conceived as an institution for high level research on policy issues ... aims at enhancing and building national capacity for policy formulation/analysis and decision making. EPRC maintains close contact with Government departments and other clients in addressing urgent problems where practical solutions can be found."
  
  
• Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (Rome)
  • FAO Aquastat Programme -- Uganda, 2006
    A profile of Ugandan water resources. "The 'thirst' for water data is ever increasing and there is indeed considerable demand for data on rural water use from national governments and development agencies. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations initiated an activity in 1993 to meet this demand with particular focus on irrigation. This resulted in the AQUASTAT Programme, the objective of which is to generate rural water use data at country level in a systematic manner."
    
    
  • FAO Global Information and Early Warning System: Uganda Profile
    Food supply situation, maps, and general information available. Other portions of the database seem to be missing.
    
    
  • FAO Document Repository on "Uganda"
  
  
• Government of Uganda: Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (Kampala)
  • General information, directory, current budget speech, and historical documents.
  • Budgets.
  
  
• The International Monetary Fund: Uganda Country Info (Washington, DC)
  Summaries, full length reports, and recent news. Note: Some documents are in PDF format, requiring Adobe Acrobat.
  
  
• International Rivers Network: Bujagali Falls Dam -- Campaign and Reports, 2000-- (Berkeley, California)
  
  
• MBendi AfroPaedia: Uganda (MBendi Information Services, South Africa)
  A basic profile of Uganda's economy and investment climate.
  
  
• National Environment Management Authority (NEMA) (Kampala, Uganda)
  Includes general information about NEMA, its activities and downloadable publications (ZIP files), and a newsletter. "[Established in 1995] NEMA is a semi-autonomous institution under the Ministry of Water, Lands and Environment, legally established as the principal agency to implement the national policy for the management of the environment in Uganda."
  
  
• The Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) (NBI Secretariat, Entebbe, Uganda)
  General information about the programme and its committees. "[Launched in Dar es Salaam in February 1999] ... The NBI is a regional partnership within which countries of the Nile basin have united in common pursuit of the sustainable development and management of Nile waters. ... supersedes the disbanded 'Technical Co-operation Committee for the Promotion of the Development & Environmental Protection of the Nile Basin.'" See also, Map of the Nile River Basin (Source: The World Bank)
  
  
• Oxfam GB on Uganda (Oxfam International, London, UK)
  Campaigns and reports from Oxfam and its activities in Uganda.
  
  
• Policy Project: Uganda (Futures Group, Washington, DC)
  A summary of assistance activities in HIV/AIDS policies and other reproductive health policies in Uganda, with downloadable reports in PDF format.
  
  
• Project Elgon (Mount Elgon, Uganda-Kenya Border) (University of Leeds, UK)
  Students and faculty from the U.K. and Uganda, assisted by staff from Makerere University, Mount Elgon National Park, and local people, carried out studies in 1996 in and around Mt. Elgon. This website is a compilation of basic information on the people, the wildlife, and the environment of the region, online papers from the project team, images, and useful links.
  
  
• Republic of Uganda: Ministry of Health (Kampala, Uganda)
  This official web site includes information about programs and policies, news, publication lists, and recent statistics.
  
  
• THETA: Traditional and Modern Health Practitioners Together Against AIDS and other Diseases (Kampala, Uganda)
  The website contains basic information about the activities and goals of THETA. Even though some publications are listed, none are available online.
  
  
• Uganda AIDS Commission and the National AIDS Documentation & Information Center (NADIC) (Kampala)
  General information about the commission and the center, its programs, research updates, news, and related links. "The Uganda AIDS Commission (UAC) was established by Statute of Parliament in 1992 and placed under the Office of the President to coordinate the multi-sectoral efforts."
  
  
• Uganda Bureau of Statistics (Kampala, Uganda)
  This official website includes a wealth of information about the activities of the bureau, links to web sites of several government ministries, and recent statistics in HTML format, including exerpts from the 2002 Population Census, information on education, health, labor, energy, migration, etc. In addition, the site includes a databank, with downloadable statistics in EXCEL format.
  
  
• Uganda Debt Network (Kampala, Uganda)
  • "Uganda Debt Network is an advocacy and lobbying coalition of NGOs, institutions and individuals formed in 1996." UDN claims to have over 100 member organizations as of 2003.
  • Publications--newsletters, discussion papers, and reports
  
  
• UVRI/IAVI--Uganda Virus Research Institute / International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (Entebbe, Uganda)
  "This research is sponsored by the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI), working as partners with the Government of the Republic of Uganda since August 2001 to accelerate the development and testing of vaccines to prevent HIV/AIDS."
  --Newsletter: The Uganda AIDS vaccine update. (Online) -- Entebbe, Uganda: UVRI/IAVI, 2003-
  
  
• United Nations Agencies on Uganda -- Economy
  • United Nations Development Programme on Uganda (New York)
    -- UNDP in Uganda: reports and news
    -- Rediscovering Agriculture for Human Development--Uganda Human Development Report 2007 PDF format
    -- Linking Environment to Human Development: A Deliberate Choice--Uganda Human Development Report 2005 PDF format
    -- Human Development Index for Uganda (2007/08 data)
    
    
  • UN Economic Commission for Africa: "Uganda: a tale of two economies?" (2003) Chapter 2 in Economic report on Africa 2003: accelerating the pace of development. (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia) PDF format.
    
    
  • UNFPA--United Nations Population Fund: Search for Uganda Country Indicators, Policy Developments, and Overview (New York)
    
  
  
• United States Agencies on Uganda -- Economy (Washington, DC)
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Uganda
    • USAID on Uganda -- Country Information
      
      
    • USAID in Uganda (Kampala)
    • USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (General)
      Search the entire USAID database for downloadable (in PDF) reports on projects and studies on Uganda.
    • USAID--Famine Early Warning System Network (FEWS NET) (General)
      Information on the Horn of Africa, Sahel--West Africa, & Southern Africa.
    • FEWS NET Uganda Center Current news and analysis of the food security situation on Uganda -- read online or download as a PDF files; plus links to other FEWS NET resources.
    • Regional Trade Analytical Agenda (USAID-RTAA, Nairobi, Kenya)
      -- RTAA Home Page (General)
      -- "Unrecorded cross-border trade between Kenya and Uganda: proceedings of a workshop held at the Mayfair Hotel, Nairobi, Kenya, December 6, 1996," by Chris Ackello-Ogutu and Protase Echessah. PDF file. SD publication / Technical paper ; no. 58 (July 1997).
      -- "Unrecorded cross-border trade between Kenya and Uganda: implications for food security," by Chris Ackello-Ogutu and Protase Echessah. PDF file. SD publication / Technical paper ; no. 59 (July 1997).
    
    
  • United States. Census Bureau. Foreign Trade Statistics:
    -- US-Uganda Trade Balance, 1992--
    -- US International Trade Statistics: Uganda, 1996-- (Search)
    
    
  • United States. Department of State
    -- Country Commercial Guide for Uganda: 2000 (in PDF)
    
    
  • United States. Commercial Service: Recent documents on Uganda economy (International Trade Administration)
  
  
• University of Wisconsin, Land Tenure Center: List of Research Papers on Uganda -- Order Information Only (Madison, Wisconsin)
  
  
• Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) (Kampala, Uganda)
  This site offers directories of prominent Ugandan women in all sectors of Ugandan society, news and opinions, documents on women's issues in Uganda, and related links. "WOUGNET's goal is to promote the use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) by women organisations and individuals for the better being of Ugandan women."
  
  
• The World Bank on Uganda (Washington, DC)
  • The World Bank in Uganda, 1999-
    A brief country profile, project reports, news, and related links.
  • Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers, 2000-. (PDF format)
  • Post-conflict reconstruction: Uganda (September 1998) OED Précis ; no. 171. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1998.
  • Designing technical assistance projects: lessons from Ghana and Uganda (September 1995) OED Précis ; no. 95. -- Washington, DC : Operations Evaluations Department, The World Bank, 1995.
  
  
• World Resources Institute -- Papers on Uganda (Washington, DC)
  • Mapping a better future: how spatial analysis can benefit wetlands and reduce poverty in Uganda (2009) -- Kampala, Uganda: Wetlands Management Department, Ministry of Water and Environment, Republic of Uganda ; Washington, DC: WRI, c2009. 51 pages in PDF format.
    
    
  • "Tools for local-level rural development planning: combining use of participatory rural appraisal and geographic information systems in Uganda." (2004) By Frank R. Turyatunga. Discussion paper. -- Washington, DC: WRI, 2004. (PDF or HTML formats)
  • "Decentralization, politics and environment in Uganda." (2002) By Nyangabyaki Bazzara. Environmental governance in Africa working paper; no. 7. -- Washington, DC: WRI, 2003. (PDF format)
  • "Decentralization and the management of forest resources in Masindi District, Uganda." (2002) By Frank Emmanuel Muhereza. Environmental governance in Africa working paper; no. 8. -- Washington, DC: WRI, 2003. (PDF format)
  • "Decentralisation and wildlife management: devolving rights or shedding responsibility? Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda." (2002) By Agrippinah Namara, Xavier Nsabagasani. Environmental governance in Africa working paper; no. 9. -- Washington, DC: WRI, 2003. (PDF format)
  • WRI Home Page (General)