Launching the Strategic Plan at Makerere University, Finance Minister Henry Musasizi said Government is aware that sustainable economic transformation is fundamentally driven by knowledge, innovation, technology and human capital.
The Minister said Makerere’s Strategic plan rightly commits the University to optimize its research potential for national and global transformation, adding that the strategic plan comes at a defining moment when the country is pursuing its vision of growing the economy tenfold to USD 500 billion by 2040.

The Uganda Country Partnership Framework, is a 10-year operational strategy that lays out how the World Bank Group will support Uganda’s ambition to transform into a modern, prosperous and competitive upper-middle income country by 2040.

Finance Minister Henry Musasizi met the Governor Bank of Uganda Dr. Micheal Atingi-Ego, his Deputy Prof. Augustus Nuwagaba and other Senior Bank officials to discuss ways of strengthening the coordination between the monetary and fiscal policy.
Ministry of Finance and Bank of Uganda play complementary and mutually re-inforcing roles in macroeconomic management and there is a clear memorandum of understanding between MoFPED and Bank of Uganda that establishes clear channels for collaboration and information sharing.

 On the sidelines of the recently concluded 2026 Annual Meetings of the Islamic Development Bank in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury (PSST) Dr. Ramathan Ggoobi met the President of the Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa (BADEA),H.E Abdullah Khalil AlMusaibeeh.