NRM 2016-2021 MANIFESTO TAKING UGANDA TO MODErnITY THROUGH JOB-CREATION INCLUSIVE DEVELOPMEnt 3 TABLE OF COntEntS CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................... 17 CHAPTER TWO SECURITY, GOOD GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRACY ...................................... 34 CHAPTER THREE GROWTH, EMPLOYMENT AND MACRO-ECONOMIC STABILITY ......................... 78 CHAPTER FOUR PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTOR INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT ........................... 86 CHAPTER FIVE AGRICULTURE ....................................................................................................... 92 CHAPTER SIX INDUSTRY ............................................................................................................. 110 CHAPTER SEVEN TOURISM .............................................................................................................. 118 CHAPTER EIGHT HARNESSING NATURAL RESOURCES .................................................................. 126 2016 - 2021 3 NATIONAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENT CHAPTER NINE TRADE .................................................................................................................. 148 CHAPTER TEN INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY .................................. 154 CHAPTER ELEVEN HUMAN CAPITAL DEVELOPMENT ....................................................................... 160 CHAPTER TWELVE CULTURE .............................................................................................................. 220 CHAPTER THIRTEEN ENTERTAINMENT .................................................................................................. 224 CHAPTER FOURTEEN LABOUR AND EMPLOYMENT .............................................................................. 228 CHAPTER FIFTEEN INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT ...................................................................... 236 CHAPTER SIXTEEN LANDS, HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT ................................................ 268 CHAPTER SEVENTEEN INTERNATIONAL AND REGIONAL CO-OPERATION ........................................... 286 4 MANIFESTO 5 FOREWORD The National Resistance Movement (NRM) Manifesto 2016 is the fifth one since 1996. The NRM is a mass organisation that is on track in implementing policies and programmes in all these manifestos. Each of these manifestos has a theme in tandem with the stages of the country’s progress. The 1996 Manifesto had “Tackling the Tasks Ahead” as the theme, the one of 2001 was “Consolidating the achievements”, 2006 had “Prosperity for All”, while the 2011 Manifesto had “Prosperity for All: Better Service Delivery and Job-Creation”. In the 2016 Manifesto, the central theme and message is “Taking Uganda to Modernity through Job-creation and Inclusive Development”. I have great pleasure to now present the 2016 NRM Manifesto, whose aspirations are to take Uganda to a competitive middle- income country from a predominantly low-income society. In it is the NRM’s plan for the next five years that lays a strong foundation to build on what we have so far achieved. It sets out the best assessment of policies and measures needed to achieve sustainable improvement. 4 2016 - 2021 5 NATIONAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENT I would like to assure our supporters and the whole nation that NRM, which is not a new organisation, has weathered all challenges and will continue to improve the living standards of the people. Uganda today has a more robust foundation than ever before. Backward leadership that lacks vision and ideology is now a thing of the past. Uganda is on the road to development and nothing will hamper that. Through this manifesto, NRM renews its determination to implement the promises that have been made and consolidate the measures and reforms that have already been taken. Anyone who appreciates where we are coming from as a country must find our strides impressive. Uganda must strive to build on this success. The NRM has achieved monumental landmarks in all sectors. If we continue at this pace, Uganda shall transform into a middle-income country and we shall be a prosperous nation in the near future. We look back with pride at our exceptional achievements over the decades. We consider NRM to be the trustee and principal guarantor of vision 2040. We want to make Uganda Africa’s gateway. Our manifesto sets out priority areas of focus, which include Strengthening Security, Good Governance and Democracy, Consolidating Growth, Employment and Macro-economic stability; Agriculture, Industry, Tourism, Human Capital Development; Health, Infrastructure Development for Competitiveness, Trade, Sustainable harnessing of Natural Resources, Public and Private Sector Institutional Development, and International and Regional Co- operation. 6 MANIFESTO 7 It is a right of every Ugandan to understand what their government intends to accomplish so that they are not only able to demand for accountability as well as efficient and effective service delivery, but also participate in the pursuit of these goals. Our strategic goal is to transform Uganda, so this manifesto is basically a diagnosis of our problems and also a prescription for the cure. In it, we simplify for the population our strategic goal, obstacles we have surmounted, what we have achieved and what we intend to do. The NRM is, therefore, seeking a fresh mandate on the strength of its record of performance and unwavering commitment to the welfare of all Ugandans. Our significant and impressive achievements have been made over the last five years under NRM leadership. I present to the people of Uganda the NRM Manifesto 2016 and strongly appeal for support to take Uganda to modernity. You have seen us deliver before; you can trust us with the future. Long Live Uganda Long Live National Resistance Movement For God and my Country Yoweri Kaguta Museveni PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE 2016 NATIONAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENT (NRM) 6 2016 - 2021 7 NATIONAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENT PROFILE OF THE NRM PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE oweri Kaguta Museveni became President of the Republic of Uganda Yon January 29th, 1986 after leading a successful five-year liberation struggle. He went to the bush with 41 young men armed with 27 guns and organised the National Resistance Movement and National Resistance Army (NRM/NRA) to fight the tyranny that previous regimes had unleashed upon the population. After a series of successes in the bush under his command, the NRM/NRA was ready to take power. The push for Kampala started on January 17th, 1986 from different parts of the central region. It took nine days for the force to march to Kampala and capture power on January 26th. After victory, Museveni formed a broad-based government that helped to unite the country’s diverse political groups and interests. Before the bush war, 1981-1986, he had been one of the leaders in the anti-Idi Amin resistance of 1971-1979 that led to the fall of that monstrous regime. Museveni, who has been politically active since his student days at Ntare School, Mbarara, in South Western Uganda, studied social science at the University of Dar-es-Salaam, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and Political Science. After Idi Amin’s coup in 1971, Museveni was instrumental in forming FRONASA (the Front for National Salvation). FRONASA was one of the Ugandan fighting groups which, 8 MANIFESTO 9 together with the Tanzanian People’s Defence Forces, ousted Amin in April 1979. Museveni served briefly in the governments that succeeded Amin, as Minister of Defence, Minister of Regional Co-operation and Vice-Chairman of the Military Commission before he ran for President in the controversial 1980 elections. That poll was the country’s first general election in 20 years, but was rigged by Milton Obote’s Uganda People’s Congress. During the election campaign Museveni had warned that if the elections were rigged, he would declare war on the government. Indeed they were rigged and on February 6th, 1981, he launched a guerrilla struggle. The NRA, which he commanded, is unique in Africa for being the only guerrilla force to take over power without much external support and a rear base in a neighbouring country. Its camps were based only 20 miles from the capital, Kampala. Under his leadership the NRA (now renamed the Uganda People’s Defence Forces) had a sophisticated organisational principles including discipline for managing both soldiers and civilians, which mitigated the extremely difficult circumstances the force was operating in. It is on this that Museveni and his comrades-in-arms built a force that would turn around the history of Uganda when it captured power. Since then Uganda has embarked on the road to democracy, rule of law and development with amazing results. 8 2016 - 2021 9 NATIONAL RESISTANCE MOVEMENT EARLY POLITICAL AWARENESS Yoweri Kaguta Museveni was born in 1944 to Amos Kaguta and Esteeri Kokundeka. This was during the Second World War and his name was taken from the Abaseveni, who were Ugandan servicemen in the Seventh Regiment of the King’s African Rifles in which many Ugandans had been drafted. He was born in a peasant pastoralist background in Ankole, western Uganda. As the peasants in his home area were nomads, their children did not go to school and modern ideas about animal husbandry, hygiene and health care did not percolate through to them. In addition, they were exploited and oppressed by land policies such as ranching schemes, which displaced them from their traditional lands. Such policies were instituted