President Yoweri Museveni has officially launched Uganda’s Fourth National Development Plan (NDP IV), which is set to be implemented starting in the 2025/2026 financial year.
The launch took place at the Kololo Ceremonial Grounds during the national budget reading session attended by Parliament.
Spanning the period from FY2025/26 to FY2029/30, NDP IV comes at a pivotal time in Uganda’s development journey.
According to the Ministry of Finance and the National Planning Authority, the plan aligns with the broader Uganda Vision 2040, which aims to transform Uganda from a predominantly peasant society into a modern and prosperous nation by 2040.
NDP IV marks the beginning of the second half of Uganda Vision 2040’s implementation.
It also serves as Uganda’s final plan aligned with the Global Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and has been formulated in the context of the East African Vision 2050 and the African Union’s Agenda 2063.
Notably, this is the first plan under the government’s new economic strategy to grow the economy ten-fold by 2040, a move aimed at accelerating socio-economic transformation.
Finance Minister Matia Kasaija emphasized that this plan continues the government’s development trajectory, which began with the launch of Uganda Vision 2040 in 2010, followed by the implementation of three five-year national development plans NDPI, NDPII, and the current NDPIII, which concludes this financial year.
While Uganda Vision 2040 sets ambitious targets including achieving upper-middle-income status with a GDP of USD 581 billion and a per capita income of USD 9,500 these goals remain unmet.
Speaking on the new plan, David Kasura-Kyomukama, Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, highlighted six key objectives and seven main outcomes guiding the sector’s operations.
These include sustainably increasing agricultural production and productivity, improving harvest and post-harvest handling, and optimizing value addition infrastructure.
These efforts are projected to boost Uganda’s agricultural export earnings from USD 2.5 million to USD 4.8 million, reduce imports of agro-based products from USD 1.096 billion to USD 600 million, and increase yields of priority agricultural commodities by 50 percent.
By Francis Lubega
13th June 2025
