2ND MARKET INFORMATION SYMPOSIUM

MAKING MIS RELEVANT TO FARMING COMMUNITIES THOUGH HARMONIZED AND SUSTAINABLE

PARTNERSHIPS WITH PRIVATE SECTOR

PRESENTATION BY: ABU LUWAGA-LED SUPPORT OFFICER, MOLG

ABOUT LOCAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN UGANDA

• NDP was launched in 2010 with focus on poverty reduction with

additional emphasis on socio-economic transformation and wealth

creation for the people of Uganda.

(LED has become a sixth objective of decentralization)

• Definition of LED

LED is a process in which LGs, the private sector and community

economic groups form partnerships to mobilize and manage local, and externally accessible resources, to stimulate the economy in a given locality.

LED is enabled/facilitated through a range of inputs:

An Enabling Policy, Regulatory & Institutional Environment: Effective & Coherent Macro Policies, Legal & Regulatory Frameworks Efficient and Effective Institutions (regulating, facilitating & supporting) Other An Enabling Business Environment: Streamlined Regulatory Environment Effective/Efficient Economic Infrastructure Assets Responsive Business Support and Financial Services Sector Well developed Strategic Support Sectors (Communication, Transportation and others Good Progress on Human Development Effective Social Services – Health, Education (including higher & vocational), Basic Infrastructure (water & sanitation, electrification, roads & other)

An Innovative, Entrepreneurial and Capable Private Sector (formal & Informal INPUT THIS THE MOST CRITICAL

Local Economic Development – Required Inputs

Institutionalization of the LED Function &

Introduction of Tools & Capacities

Institutionalization of the LED Function &

Introduction of Tools & Capacities

Quantitative and

Qualitative Assessment of the Local Economy

& Business Environment

Quantitative and

Qualitative Assessment of the Local Economy

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Local GovernmentLocal GovernmentLocal GovernmentLocal Government

LED ForumLED Forum

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LED Strategy

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Annual Implementation ProgramAnnual Implementation ProgramEconomic InfrastructureEconomic Infrastructure

SME Finance/InvestmentSME Finance/Investment

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The Scope of the LEDP at the Local Level The Scope of the LEDP at the Local Level

Institutionalization and Capacity Development

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Institutionalization and Capacity Development

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Economic Assessment and Strategy Development

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Economic Assessment and Strategy Development

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Strategy Implementation Phase

Strategy Implementation Phase

LGMIS SUPPORTED BY FIT UGANDA

MIS ONLINE APPLICATION

Data Entry

Market Information System Flowchart

District Hqrs

District Website

NoticeBoards

Village Meetings

Data Collection

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Individual Subsmission

Radio

SMS

LOGICS ONLINE

INFOTRADE

ROLE OF LOCAL GOVERNMENTS

EXPECTED BENEFITS OF LGMIS• Easy accessibility to market information by the district extension

officers .• Provide the local communities access MIS via registered local

platform.• Improved quality of market information provided at the district local

government for the end users. (cover aspects of desire quality, quantity, delivery times and volumes of trade).

• Enhance the activities of extension officers in the districts with relevant content

• Promote trade and market linkages in the districts within 3 major sub sectors were district have a comparative advantage

• Contribute and ease the planning and evaluation of production

potential and trade potential of the districts

CRITICAL NEED FOR COLLABORATION WITH LINE MINISTRIES IN COLLECTION AND DISSEMINATION

• MIN. OF AGRICULTURE: Through NAADs program inform and encourage farmers to utilize the LG MIS to source for market information and to be channel for outreach to the wide network of farmers and traders in the district.

• MIN. OF INFORMATION: promote the use of ICTs to enhance market information awareness among the farmers , like all extension officers . Linking district ICT enablers

• MIN. OF TRADE: stimulate efforts to enhance trade negotiations and improve market access at the local level and facilitate local trade registration and market linkages within the target sectors.