Strategic goal 1: Improved efficiency and effectiveness of the national budget and return to public investments.
Objectives 1: To ensure optimal allocation of National Resources in line with NDP
Strategies:
- Coordinate the national annual planning and budgeting process.
- Ensure adequate resources are allocated to deliver key priorities
- Identify (appropriate) budget priorities in line with the national development framework
- Ensure new Legal and Policy frameworks are consistent with the National Development Agenda and resource envelope.
- Strengthen the Framework for clearance of Certificates for Financial Implications
- Analyse and advise on annual budget policy options
- Enhancing medium and long term forecasting of the budget.
- Institute mechanism for all government approaches for monitoring and ringfencing funding for special expenditure of special programs such of PDM, Emyoga, and others
Objective 2: To ensure efficient and effective utilization of public financial resources
Strategies:
- Improve budget absorption,
- Ensure that expenditure is in line with approved workplans and national priorities
- Develop baseline costings and unit costings
- Enforce the commitment control system
Objective 3: To improve budget credibility
Strategies:
- Promote transparency of the budget process
- Ensure consistency of MTEF projections, with strategic direction
- Ensure Comprehensiveness of the budget
- Ensure affordability of the budget
- Ensure minimal adjustments to the approved budget (supplementary and virements)
Objective 4: To ensure budget execution in line with the approved budget
Strategies:
- Avail adequate financial resources in a timely manner to enable implementation of Government programs per the plan
- Align workplans and Government cashflow plans
- Undertake National Budget monitoring and control for effective utilization of public finances
- Ensure Proper and timely reporting on utilization and budget performance by MDAs &LGS
Objective 5: To Strengthen Capacity in Planning, Budgeting and Monitoring
Strategies
- Establish a framework for capacity building for both human and supportive infrastructure for the National Budget processes.
- Ensure and effective budget release and tracking mechanism
- Develop and ensure the implementation of effective budget control mechanisms
- Improve budget analysis and challenge function
Objective 6: Strengthen the Framework for clearance of Certificates for Financial Implications
Strategies
- Develop standard manuals and tools for review and approval of certificates of financial implications.
- Develop guidelines and tools for MDAS in forecasting financial implications of proposed legislation and policies
- Automate the process for approval of financial implications of legislative and policy proposals
- Training and Capacity building
Objectives 7: To strengthen the legal, regulatory and/or policy framework in support of the management and control of Public Investment Projects
Strategies
- Review the legal framework to enhance regulation for the Public Investment Management System (PIMS)
- Develop policies to strengthen the Public Investment Management System
Objectives 8: To enhance transparency and effectiveness in the preparation and appraisal of Public Investment Projects
Strategies
- Establish an IT based Integrated Bank of Projects (IBP) to act as a central repository for public investment projects in Uganda and to enable the tracking of the development process of public investment projects on a real time basis
- Establish a standard set of parameters including financial and economic rates of return, conversion factors etc to ensure comparability and uniformity in project preparation and appraisal
- Streamline the link between public project objectives and the national priorities by establishing and regularly updating a compendium of National Indicators
Objectives 9: To Strengthen Capacity in the identification, preparation, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of Public Investment Projects
Strategies
- Establish a PIMS centre of excellence in Uganda to train and certify relevant public officers in identification, preparation, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of Public Investment Projects
- Develop Public sector wide user manuals for project identification, preparation appraisal, monitoring and evaluation
- Establish a project facilitation fund
Objective 10: To carry out process evaluation of PPP projects as provided for under the PPP Act.
Strategies:
- Develop guidelines for the audit of PPP projects, and standard programme for PPP project evaluation
Objectives 11: To strengthen the legal, regulatory and/or policy framework in support of the management and control of Public Investment Projects
Strategies
- Complete the National Public Investment Management Policy to provide an anchor the Public Investment Management System (PIMS) reforms
- Update PIMS policies, guidelines abd methodologies to improve Public Investment efficiency
Objectives 12: To enhance transparency and effectiveness in the preparation and appraisal of Public Investment Projects
Strategies
- Complete all the phases (1,2 & 3) of the IT based Integrated Bank of Projects (IBP) to facilitate its role as a central repository for public investment projects from inception, appraisal, execution, monitoring and ex-post evaluation
Objectives 13: To Strengthen Capacity in the identification, preparation, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of Public Investment Projects
Strategies
- Fully opertionalise the PIMS center of excellence at Makerere University to train and certify relevant public officers in identification, preparation, appraisal, monitoring and evaluation of Public Investment Projects; and
- Undertake PIMS topical research on policy opportunities, challenges and emerging issues
- Undertake specialized training on Investment Appraisal and Risk Analysis necessary for the review and preparation of feasibility studies
- Develop Programme wide user manuals for project identification, preparation appraisal, monitoring and evaluation.