Uganda: Selected Issues

IMF Staff Country Reports, May 7, 2019

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The paper examines how to promote employment in Uganda and discusses key stylized facts including labor market challenges, an overview of the labor market, and employment characteristics.
Literature on determinants of employment in Uganda is largely based on economic reports and qualitative studies.
Uganda has implemented social programs targeting employment creation for youth and women, aiming to enable private-sector job creation and build skills and requisite knowledge for employability.

Existing social programs are positive initiatives to address labor market issues but have limited coverage.
Funding constraints are identified as one of the main challenges limiting program coverage.
Creating quality jobs requires comprehensive policies to:
- Promote headline growth.
- Ensure inclusive growth.
- Improve education.
- Address challenges related to gender and youth.

Implement comprehensive policies that combine macroeconomic growth promotion with measures to ensure inclusivity.
Expand and better fund social programs aimed at youth and women to increase coverage and effectiveness.
Strengthen education and skills development to improve employability of youth and women.
Create an enabling environment for the private sector to generate quality jobs.

Programs focus on providing enabling conditions for private-sector job creation and on building skills and knowledge for employability.
Coverage of these programs remains limited.
Funding constraints are a primary impediment to scaling these initiatives.

Source: Uganda: Selected Issues (IMF Staff Country Reports No. 2019/126, May 7, 2019).

Uganda: Selected Issues; IMF Country Report No. 19/126; April 16, 2019
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