The Ministry's front door to Uganda's private sector
The Doing Business Portal is the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development's flagship platform for engaging Uganda's private sector and building a competitive, business-friendly environment. It is both an information hub and a coordination mechanism — a place to share policy updates, gather feedback, track reforms, and surface opportunities across government.
Our mandate
The portal is anchored in the Second National Strategy for Private Sector Development (NSPSD II, 2022/23–2026/27) — the national framework for enhancing private sector competitiveness, coordinated across the NDPIII and NDPIV programmes.
Its purpose is not merely to publish information, but to help businesses navigate government systems, reduce transaction costs, find the support they qualify for, monitor reforms, and take part in policy feedback — strengthening investor confidence, industrialisation, enterprise competitiveness and subregional inclusion.
Inform
Publish policy updates, requirements, opportunities and reform progress in one trusted place.
Facilitate
Guide businesses through licensing, financing and start-up journeys with tailored next steps.
Coordinate
Route issues and opportunities across the agencies that share the doing-business mandate.
Track
Capture feedback and monitor reforms so progress is visible and accountable.
Strategic alignment
NSPSD II's vision is a private sector that is growth-enhancing, resilient and competitive; its goal is to position the private sector to accelerate inclusive monetisation of the economy. It organises action around three pillars — and the portal is designed so that every module traces back to at least one of them, alongside the Tenfold Growth Strategy's ATMS priorities.
Investor confidence
A supportive business environment — policy stability, infrastructure, access to credit, and trade facilitation.
Industrialisation
Value-chain development, market access, quality enhancement and business linkages.
Enterprise competitiveness
Business development services, industrial-park access, formalisation support and innovation.
The Tenfold Growth Strategy & ATMS
Uganda's ambition to grow the economy tenfold to US$ 500B is led by four investment frontiers — Agro-industry, Tourism, Minerals, oil & gas, and Science, technology & innovation (the creative economy included). The portal's Invest journey is organised around these sectors.
Explore the ATMS sectorsGovernance & coordination
The portal is owned and operated by the Private Sector Development Unit (PSDU) within MoFPED. PSDU remains the owner of the user experience, the reform feedback loop, the data governance framework, and the national view of doing-business performance — while coordinating delivery with mandated agencies and the private sector.
MoFPED
The Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development sets the policy and strategy the portal serves.
PSDU
The Private Sector Development Unit runs the portal, owns the reform feedback loop and data governance, and convenes the doing-business agenda.
Agencies & private sector
Mandated authorities and agency focal persons deliver services; the private sector engages, raises issues and gives feedback.
Glossary
Key terms and acronyms used across the portal and the strategies it implements.
- PSDU
- Private Sector Development Unit — the MoFPED unit that operates this portal and coordinates the doing-business agenda.
- MoFPED
- Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development — the parent ministry that owns the portal.
- NSPSD II
- Second National Strategy for Private Sector Development (2022/23–2026/27) — the strategy the portal implements.
- Tenfold Growth Strategy
- Uganda's plan to grow the economy tenfold to US$ 500B, led by the ATMS investment frontiers.
- ATMS
- Agro-industry, Tourism, Minerals (oil & gas), and Science, Technology & Innovation — the priority growth sectors.
- Macro / Meso / Micro
- NSPSD II's three pillars: the business environment, industrialisation, and enterprise-level competitiveness.
- NDPIII / NDPIV
- Uganda's Third and Fourth National Development Plans, within which NSPSD II is implemented.
- MSME
- Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises — the businesses the portal primarily serves.
- BDS
- Business Development Services — advisory, skilling and support services that raise enterprise competitiveness.
Contact
Private Sector Development Unit
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development
- Plot 2–8 Apollo Kaggwa Road
P.O. Box 8147, Kampala, Uganda - (+256) 414 707 322
- finance@finance.go.ug
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