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Uganda EITI Report for Fiscal Year 2019/20

The Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) is a global standard for the good governance of oil, gas and mineral resources. Uganda was admitted to the EITI on 12th August 2020 and by virtue of becoming a member, Uganda commited to disclose information along its extractive industry value chain. This is Uganda's first EITI report and it covers the period for the Financial year 2019/20.


 

Mining and Minerals Act, 2022

This act is meant to consolidate and reform the law relating to mineral resources to give effect to article 244 of the Constitution;to strengthen the administrative structures for the effective management of the mineral subsectorto provide for the acquisition, management and dissemination of geological information; to regulate the licensing and participation of commercial entities in mining operations to provide for Government participation in mining operations; to provide for value addition with a view of promoting local growth by reaping benefits across the whole value chain among other mineral exploration benefits.

 

UGEITI COUNTRY WORK PLAN 2022/23

The Uganda Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Work Plan (WP) has been formulated by the Uganda Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) to guide its programmes and activities which are in line with the country’s national priorities, and as guided by the requirements set out in the 2019 EITI Standard. The Work Plan 2022/2023 has been developed to consolidate the achievements of the previous UGEITI Work plan, 2020/2021 – 2021/2022, whose goal was ‘to improve the governance of extractive industries in Uganda for the benefit of present and future generations’. The 2nd work plan has maintained the goal of the first work plan, and has been further developed to deliver on Uganda’s core priority objectives for extractive governance through alignment with the National Development Plan (NDP) III

 

UGEITI Report FY 2020/2021.pdf

Uganda Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (UGEITI) Report for Fiscal Year 2020/21

This report covers payments made by extractive entities and revenues received by Government Agencies and other material payments and benefits to Government Agencies as stated by Requirement 4.1 of the 2019 EITI Standard. It also includes contextual information about the extractive industries in accordance with EITI Requirements 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. This information includes a summary description of the legal framework and fiscal regime, an overview of the extractive sector, the extractive industries’ contribution to the economy, production data, the State’s shareholding in extractive entities, revenue allocations, license registers and license allocations.

Report on All People's Conference on Mining in Uganda

This report presents proceedings from All People's Conference on Mining in Uganda held on 25th & 26th September, 2018 under the theme, "Promoting inclusiveness in the governance of Uganda's mineral wealth,". The conference was organised by by Global Rights Alert (GRA) in partnership with Action Aid Uganda (AAU),  Publish What You Pay (PWYP - Uganda) and Mubende United Miners Assembly (MUMA). 

UGEITI COUNTRY WORK PLAN 2022/23

The Uganda Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) Work Plan (WP) has been formulated by the Uganda Multi-Stakeholder Group (MSG) to guide its programmes and activities which are in line with the country’s national priorities, and as guided by the requirements set out in the 2019 EITI Standard. The Work Plan 2022/2023 has been developed to consolidate the achievements of the previous UGEITI Work plan, 2020/2021 – 2021/2022, whose goal was ‘to improve the governance of extractive industries in Uganda for the benefit of present and future generations’. The 2nd work plan has maintained the goal of the first work plan, and has been further developed to deliver on Uganda’s core priority objectives for extractive governance through alignment with the National Development Plan (NDP) III.