Le présent rapport donne un aperçu détaillé de l’état d’accès à l’énergie ainsi que de sécurité énergétique dans les pays de la sous-région de l’Afrique de l’Est. Il reconnait l’importance de l’énergie dans la croissance économique et le développement social dans la région et prend en compte la multitude d’initiatives de politique énergétique prises aux niveaux mondial, régional et national. Compte tenu des objectifs de politique économique de pays à «revenu intermédiaire» d’un certain nombre d’États de la région, les besoins d’accès à l’énergie de ces États sont analysés. Le rapport poursuit en décrivant plus amplement la problématique des technologies de l’énergie, de l’infrastructure, de la gouvernance des ressources énergétiques, du développement de l’énergie ainsi que les considérations environnementales dans l’évaluation de leur impact potentiel sur les initiatives et programmes d’amélioration de l’énergie. Les expériences nationales et les défis spécifiques des pays en matière d’amélioration de l’accès à l’énergie sont examinés dans les études de cas de l’Éthiopie, de l’Ouganda, de la Tanzanie et du Soudan du Sud.

[vc_row][vc_column][custom_inner_menus select_menu="project"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][single_project_block_1 heading="Industrialization" implementor="EAC Secretariat" target_group="East African Region" project_value="US$ 700,000" implementation_period="Jul 1, 2017 to Jun 30, 2021" download_btn_text="Download Project PDF" download_btn_link="#url"]The EAC Region is endowed with vast natural resources which, however, remain untapped due to a combination of factors. These include non-conducive policies and business environments both at national and regional levels, gaps in requisite skills and technological know-how, and limited and fragmented national markets which limit the realization of economies of scale in production and information gaps. This calls for strategic collaboration among Partner States in order to collectively address the policy, regulatory, market and information challenges which reduce incentives for private investments in the industrial sector and have contributed to the undeveloped value chains. To exploit the resource endowment in the region and enhance the region’s industrialization levels, through value addition initiatives, a regional policy framework has been formulated. The EAC Industrialization Strategy has earmarked six strategic resource-based industries, in which the region has a comparative advantage, and which will be developed to facilitate productive integration (PI) through industrial deepening, diversifying, specialization and upgrading. Among the six strategic sectors are also Cotton, Textiles and Apparels; and Leather and Footwear. The sectors were selected based on the priorities identified in Partner States industrial development plans, consultations with the business community, and the potentials as evaluated using technical feasibility (resources available, technological capacity) and relative attractiveness (measured by market size, growth, and pro-poor characteristics) indicators. What: TMA Industrialization project is designed to support the EAC Secretariat in conducting studies and...

The Uganda Export Promotion Board is a specialized agency set up by Government for the development, promotion and co-ordination of all export related activities that lead to export growth on a sustainable basis. The institution is supervised by the Ministry of Trade, Industry & Cooperatives of the Republic of Uganda.

Growth of international and intra-regional trade is recognized as key factors towards achieving greater economic growth and regional integration for the East African region. However, the East African region is characterized by high costs of doing business, high costs of transportation, numerous non-tariff barriers, delays and associated administrative costs on the transit logistics chain all of which are eventually passed down to the end consumer of the goods. This cause a huge increase in the cost of goods in the landlocked countries, and given that the EAC region is a net importer, is a factor that makes the region very uncompetitive compared to the world markets and economies.

The report offers a detailed overview of the state of energy access and energy security in countries of the Eastern Africa sub-region. In reviewing the current state of energy access and energy access gaps relative to the numerous policy initiatives, the report recognizes the importance of energy in supporting the ongoing economic growth and social development of the region, and takes account of the multitude of energy policy initiatives at global, regional and state levels.

Ntungamo-Kagitumba Road upgrade kicks-off

This is the 10th edition of the Doing Business report. First published in 2003 with 5 indicator sets measuring business regulation in 133 economies, the report has grown into an annual publication covering 11 indicator sets and 185 economies. In these 10 years Doing Business has recorded nearly 2,000 business regulation reforms in the areas covered by the indicators. And researchers have produced well over 1,000 articles in peer-reviewed journals using the data published by Doing Business—work that helps explore many of the key development questions of our time. Doing Business 2013 holds new information to inspire policy makers and researchers.