In a recently completed World Bank study one of the key messages that the world bank sends out to Uganda Oil and Gas industry stakeholders is to build the country’s private sector. The study titled: “Leveraging Oil and Gas Industry for the Development of a Competitive Private Sector in Uganda” emphasizes that Uganda’s private sector
Oil will only deepen Uganda’s governance crisis- Makerere University Don, Dr. Busingye Kabumba
Busingye Kabumba is Lecturer of Law at Makerere University and a Consulting Partner of Development Law Associates. While Presenting a Paper on Oil and the Youth in a workshop organized by the Africa Institute of Energy Governance at Grand Imperial Hotel in December 2014, Kabumba said that Oil is simply a new site of tension,
Why Uganda will not benefit from the slump in Global Oil Prices
When Ugandans query the constant upsurge in oil prices, they are often reminded by fuel dealers that the global oil price trends largely driven by the Middle East suppliers especially Saudi Arabia are the reason to blame. However, developments in the recent past suggest that the dealers only use the global oil prices as the
UMEC 2015 set to showcase Investment Potential in Uganda’s Mining Sector
In 2014, the estimates of discovered oil in Uganda rose from 3.5 Million to 6.5 Million Barrels. The recent revelation that Uganda was exploring areas like Karamoja and the Hoima Basin to find more oil, the hopes to embark on commercial output in 2017 and the new round of licensing in the sector scheduled to
A call for consultants to do a feasibility study on enterprise development in the Albertine Region
Living Earth Uganda, a natural resources and environmental management NGO in Uganda is looking for organizations or individuals, with the experience and skills to undertake a feasibility and scoping study for enterprise development in rural communities. This duty is part of LEU’s broader Jobs and Oil project aiming at making oil work for poor people
Environmental Management is key to managing Uganda’s oil- NEMA Executive Director
The Executive Director of the National Environmental Management Authority, Dr. Tom Okurut has said environmental management is a key factor in the development of Uganda’s Oil and Gas Sector, Resource Management and Financial Management being the other key elements in the sector. While speaking at 1st Petroleum Industry Environmental Management Conference held at Speke Resort
UN Women and Publish What You Pay launch gender toolkit that seeks to empower women in the extractives sector
UN Women and Publish What You Pay (PWYP), a global coalition campaigning for an open extractive sector have launched a toolkit “Extracting Equality – A Guide”, which examines how to approach the issue of gender within the extractive sector. Written by PWYP and UN Women, along with experts working on gender and the extractives worldwide, the
Refinery site residents abandon farming as they await oil compensation money
In this little-known village of Kyapaloni, we have just arrived in the trading centre and the boys or should we say the young men are playing cards. It‘s few minutes past noon, people should be somewhere in the garden digging but who cares about digging any more, not in this village. Kyapaloni is a village
Is oil giving Hoima a new lease of life? Tracing the changing face of Uganda’s “Oil City”
On the Journey to Hoima It’s 4:00pm and I am boarding a commuter taxi to Hoima. It’s not the first time I am travelling to Hoima and neither is it the last. The only difference today, I am not just travelling back home to check on my parents. I have to check on our oil
World Bank to support Uganda’s oil projects despite protests from London NGO
The World Bank will support Uganda’s Ambitious community and infrastructural development Project in the Albertine Graben despite protests from Global Witness, a London based Non- Government Organization Through the World Bank loan, the government hopes to invest at least $153.89 million (about UShs412.5 billion) in all the nine districts in the Albertine region. However Global