Private Sector Competitiveness II

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The overall objective for the Second Private Sector Competitiveness Project for Uganda is to create sustainable conditions for enterprise creation and growth that responds to local and export markets. The project, which will reduce the cost of doing business and encourage investment, will enable the private sector to be better positioned to respond to opportunities in specific categories of the market. The project will increase the number of formal enterprises, the number of people employed and the number of skilled employees leading to an increase in output per worker. The project has the following three components: Component 1) will provide priority infrastructure and related facilities to support the growth of the industrial and business sector, particularly through enhancing the availability of serviced industrial land in a modern, well-planned Industrial Park. Component 2) aims to improve enterprise creation and growth, particularly in Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs), by changing enterprise behavior toward investment in skills, including investment in skills for omen, raising productivity and improving the quality, standards, and reliability of MSME producers participating in export value chains. Component 3) will help address critical issues in the business environment, including: (i) improvements in the land registry and survey training school; (ii) improvements to the business registration service; and (iii) support to the Uganda Law Reform Commission and revision of key legislation.