Uganda National Development Plan (NDP) addresses structural bottlenecks in Uganda's economy in order to accelerate socio-economic transformation for prosperity. The NDP interventions aim at creating employment, raising average per capita income levels, improving the labor force distribution in line with sectoral GDP shares, raising Uganda's human development and gender equality indicators, and improving the country's competitiveness to levels associated with middle-income countries. This requires the sustained orientation of government expenditures and implementation capacity towards removal of the most binding constraints to the faster socio-economic transformation.
The development approach of the NDP intertwines economic growth and poverty eradication. This will be pursued in a quasi-market environment where the private sector will remain the engine of growth and development. The government, in addition to undertaking the facilitation role through the provision of a conducive policy, institutional and regulatory framework will also actively promote and encourage public-private partnerships in a rational manner. Furthermore, the government will continue to pursue outward-oriented policies by encouraging foreign investments policy and management.