Objectives
The Program aims at enhancing the capacity of MTIC to fulfil its mandate in respect to development of trade, and enabling the country to develop sufficient capacity to exploit the trade opportunities available under the EPA and the different regional trade agreements. Within that general objective, two specific objectives have been identified as:
- To bolster the capacity of MTIC to spearhead the development of the country’s trade sector, and the creation of an enabling business environment for private sector development;
- To increase the ability of Uganda’s products to conform to international quality standards and to strengthen the enforcement of such standards
To ensure that the above objectives are met, the Program has five result areas. The result areas are;
- Institutional strengthening of MTIC and strengthening linkages between production and trade/domestic trade development
- Regulatory and institutional reforms to streamline the trading process
- Effective management of the trade negotiations process
- Trade Facilitation; producing trade-related information and making it accessible to users, and
- Improvement of quality standards and compliance with Sanitary and Phyto-Sanitary requirements
