Author: Bbiira Kiwanuka Nassa

Every year, economies compute and use its economic ratings like Net Growth Product (NGP), Growth Domestic Product (GDP) and other economic indicators as a measure of progress or lack of progress. Little is however, made to trace the contribution of experts to this progress. For example, Uganda passionately recognises the role nannies exported to United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia and Quatar, but not the professional consultancies experts bring to our foreign exchange earnings. The contribution of these expertise is largely fused to the other economic indicators largely because experts have become followers of processes for the macro and micro…

Tourism in Uganda is an increasingly important contributor to its economy. The 1.5 million international tourists combined with a growing number of domestic tourists contributes to over 7.75% of Uganda’s Gross Domestic Product. In the year 2018, tourism contributed over 6.7% of total national employment. This has been largely from nature-based tourism. Uganda has the potential to grow its tourism two folds by investing in its integration of agriculture, energy (oil and gas) and MICE. According to the Uganda Country Report 2022, tourism has registered the highest recovery after the Covid 19 era. It is estimated that the number of…

“While presenting a paper today on youth participation in governance processes for Recreation for Development and Peace (RDP) Uganda, I was posed a question by a national youth leader: ‘How is greatness created?’ I reframed his query to emphasise that the life you lead is a reflection of the world you shape. A few successful individuals have one thing in common: they live purposefully and with a clear mission. As young people, we must invest in defining our purpose and establishing values that keep us aligned with that purpose. The key is to methodically chart a strategic path through a…

Whereas Bunyoro Kitara-Kingdom is supposed to be non-partisan, it is surely meant to be political. Apolitical societies only attract fools to lead them. Bunyoro must decide whether to shape leadership or the political leadership to shape it towards the direction of disrespect, following and extinction. I have opted to be humble. My sibling normally tells me that Bunyoro is under attack. The leadership at Bunyoro Kitara-Kingdom has taken the direction of following not leading. The kingdom thinks that we can only use lobbying without advocacy or activism. Bunyoro can be infiltrated and annexed since we have no advocacy wing. The…

None peaceful political transitions have characterised Uganda’s governance for the entire post-independence era. As early as 2001, this culture of violence was introduced into Uganda’s politics and the electoral process. The violence escalated through the 2006 and 2011 elections reaching epic levels during the 2016 and 2021elections. Violence will turn out to be a response to the well recruited grounded Muhoozi Kainerugaba alias MK army from the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF). Whether the MK-army is directly participating or influencing the 2026 elections, the warrior mad king scenario will become an inevitable possibility of a new era of violence that…

The world through the United Nation’s agenda 2030 targeted to realize decent work and economic growth (agenda 5), no poverty (agenda 1) and peace and justice strong institutions (agenda 16). How this is being delivered across board leave a lot to be answered as regards meaningful youth engagement. The Greatlakes region is a hub of violence, refugee crisis and cross board conflicts. Governance has become the cornerstone for most violence and lack of peace. In all this, the young people have become key players of either civil strife, political unrest or intolerance. The Greatlakes region hosts over 127 million people…

In the recent 3 months, Bunyoro has been challenged by appeals for cessations. In our history, we knew Bunyoro for annexing other territories. Well, the question is not whether we should discuss annexation or cessation of loyalty of greater Kibaale or Buliisa or the new looming Kiryandongo but asking ourselves what is causing this. For record purposes, never has Bunyoro been strategically positioned both politically and economically than now. Actually, Bunyoro is better connected in both government and state today. Bunyoro has a strategic city though soon turning into Soweto slum. Bunyoro has excellent roads connecting both its districts and…

I have interacted with the Parish Development Model twice this month. One was during a Civil Society Organisations interaction with Hoima district Local Government and the other was when I was tasked by Uganda Human Rights Commission to engage youths on mindset change in Kikuube district. In both, I was spot on the mindset change as a key notion and principle of the Parish Development Model. The Parish Development Model envisages capital transitions through human, financial, natural, physical, and social capital transformation. To my dismay, while I facilitated a multi-stakeholder engagement for one of the International Oil Companies (Atlas Oranto…

There are two fundamental things in life; planning and reflection. These are critical to shaping how we all make decisions and repeat or learn from our mistakes. At the end of each year, people are persuaded to make annual resolutions, annual plans and refocus their organisations. Few do the same for their dear lives. For this reason, some people get stuck on their jobs, on their past challenges and each year they repeat their life challenges. The Chinese say if you are beaten by a snake, it’s not your problem. It only becomes your problem if the same snake bites…

The world is full of challenges partly because the entire world is preoccupied with thinking about problems. Little efforts are put on solutions. Those thinking about solutions end up assimilating and associating regularly with the problem thinkers. We all face social, ecological, governance, environmental and economic problems. These manifests themselves to us differently and at different times. One fact is that we all feel these problems more at a personal level when they attack us. I have of late realised that there are over one million solutions unthought of. What is critical is that everyone is reading and understanding those…