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Uganda needs to focus on improving the
effectiveness of its roads investment strategy for rural
Uganda and improving the manner in it procures and
implements roads contracts at the national level. In recent
years the Government of Uganda has shifted the priorities in
its national development strategy as there was accumulating
evidence that infrastructure deficiencies had become a
binding constraint to economic growth and poverty reduction.
Consequently the Government of Uganda increased in
particular the budget allocation for the road sector
substantially as a means to tackle this constraint to growth
and poverty reduction: i) by investing in rural roads it
aims to facilitate market access for farmers, which will
allow them to increase their earnings capacity; and ii) by
improving the national roads network, transport cost will be
reduced, competitiveness enhanced and additional income
generated. However, to ensure the highest economic return
for its investment, it is advised to rebalance the way
allocations are set for rural roads and to increase
absorptive capacity to efficiently utilize the augmented
budgetary resources for the national roads sector.
