The evolution of industry in Uganda

Obwona, Marios; Shinyekwa, Isaac; Kiiza, Julius; Hisali, Eria

doi:10.35188/unu-wider/2014/742-4

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“…Uganda's manufacturing sector is growing, but it currently accounts for just 18.4 per cent of GDPcompared to 48 per cent for services and 26.2 per cent for agriculture (World Bank Report, 2015). Manufacturing is heavily reliant on imported materials and is faced with challenges like high interest rates, poor transportation infrastructure, inadequate skills and power shortages (Obwona et al 2014). Further, unethical behaviour in commercial transactions is common.…”

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Supply chain resilience in a developing country context: a case study on the interconnectedness of threats, strategies and outcomes

Tukamuhabwa

Stevenson

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2017

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Purpose: In the few prior empirical studies on Supply Chain Resilience (SCRES), the focus has been on the developed world. Yet organisations in developing countries constitute a significant part of global supply chains and have also experienced the disastrous effects of supply chain failures. The purpose of this paper is therefore to empirically investigate SCRES in a developing country context, and to show that this also provides theoretical insights into the nature of what we mean by resilience. Design/methodology/approach: Using a case study approach, a supply network of 20 manufacturing firms in Uganda is analysed based on a total of 45 interviews. Findings: The perceived threats to SCRES in this context are mainly small-scale, chronic disruptive events rather than the discrete, large-scale catastrophic events typically emphasised in the literature. The data reveals how threats of disruption, resilience strategies, and outcomes are interrelated in complex, coupled and non-linear ways. These interrelationships are explained by the political, cultural, and territorial embeddedness of the supply network in a developing country. Further, this embeddedness contributes to the phenomenon of supply chain risk migration, whereby an attempt to mitigate one threat produces another threat and/or shifts the threat to another point in the supply network. Practical implications: Managers should be aware, for example, of potential risk migration from one threat to another when crafting strategies to build SCRES. Equally, the potential for risk migration across the supply network means managers should look at the supply chain holistically because actors along the chain are so interconnected. Originality/value: The paper goes beyond the extant literature by highlighting how SCRES is not only about responding to specific, isolated threats but about the continuous management of risk migration. It demonstrates that resilience requires both an understanding of the interconnectedness of threats, strategies, and outcomes and an understanding of the embeddedness of the supply network. Finally, our focus on the context of a developing country reveals that resilience should be equally concerned both with smaller in scale, chronic disruptions and with occasional, large-scale catastrophic events.

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Section: Context and Case Selectionmentioning

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Supply chain resilience in a developing country context: a case study on the interconnectedness of threats, strategies and outcomes

Tukamuhabwa

Stevenson

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2017

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“…In the 1950s and 1960s, gold mining was identified as the main source of economic growth in the country, generating about 30 per cent of Uganda's export earnings. 36 The economic and political instability that affected the country in the 1970s resulted in the shutting down of many industrial mines, thus opening wide the doors to artisanal and small-scale gold-mining activities. 37 Muhumuza reports that Uganda has experienced an explosive rush in gold mining, with 10,000 artisanal gold miners in the Mubende district, and with 15,000 to 80,000 miners at the Rupa gold mine in Karamoja.…”

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Child Labour in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mines in Uganda: Are Legal Protections Adequate?

Njieassam

2022

J. Afr. law

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Child labour is prevalent in both developed and developing countries and has become a global concern. This is because of the negative impacts that it has not only on the human rights and fundamental freedoms of children, but on their development and health due to possible exposure to hazardous substances. This article interrogates the magnitude of the problem of child labour in the gold mines of Uganda and seeks to highlight the gaps in the existing legal framework on the protection of Ugandan children from hazardous labour. It asserts that although poverty and a failed educational system are believed to be the root causes of child labour in Uganda, weak and inefficient laws coupled with a lack of coordination between institutions responsible for protecting the child contribute equally. Thus there is need for political will by the government of Uganda to help prevent the problem.

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“…While 10 years ago the list might have been dismissed by some as a PR stunt (or trial balloon), the professional skills it identified were subsequently validated by the Government's policy stances as well as by the requirements of the oil companies, i.e. as reflected by their employment, national content, and industrial policies (Obwana et al 2016). Moreover, Makerere University, with support from the China University of Petroleum, has set up an Institute of Geo-Sciences and Petroleum, and offers a Bachelor of Science in Petroleum.…”

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Uganda’s nascent oil sector: Revenue generation, investor-stakeholder alignment, and public policy

Kayizzi-Mugerwa¹

2020

WIDER Working Paper

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This paper discusses the political economy of oil in Uganda since the announcement of its discovery in 2006. It focuses on the dynamics of oil revenue generation (pre-commercial production) and expenditure, investor-stakeholder contestation (i.e. between bureaucrats, investors/oil companies, and domestic stakeholders), and the role of public policy. Although the Government has created several institutional and regulatory frameworks to manage oil-related revenues and ensure that oil contributes to structural transformation, Uganda is already experiencing many of the stylized facts associated with natural resource exploitation, including macroeconomic instability, rent dissipation, and, more broadly, threats of adverse impact on the environment and on local livelihoods in the oil regions. Besides these, Uganda, and similarly endowed African countries, face the economic challenges related to the global shift in recent decades towards a low-carbon development paradigm and the threatening prospect of oil investments becoming ‘stranded assets’. The latter issues are not yet part of the policy conversation in Uganda.

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The evolution of industry in Uganda

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Supply chain resilience in a developing country context: a case study on the interconnectedness of threats, strategies and outcomes

Supply chain resilience in a developing country context: a case study on the interconnectedness of threats, strategies and outcomes

Child Labour in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mines in Uganda: Are Legal Protections Adequate?

Uganda’s nascent oil sector: Revenue generation, investor-stakeholder alignment, and public policy

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