TRADE, INDUSTRY & LED
To formulate, review and support policies, strategies, plans and programs that promote and ensure expansion and diversification of trade.
Mandate
To provide leadership, technical support and guidance for the delivery of quality Commercial services in the Municipality.
Mission
To formulate, review and support policies, strategies, plans and programs that promote and ensure expansion and diversification of trade, cooperatives, environmentally sustainable industrialization, appropriate technology development and transfer to generate wealth for poverty eradication and benefit the Municipality socially and economically.
Objectives
To Implement and monitor policies, programs and laws on Commercial sub-sector.
To supervise and manage the departmental activities, programs and staff.
To evaluate and prepare status reports on departmental activities.
To manage and account for all the resources availed for the department
To initiate developmental projects in Tourism, trade, Industry and Cooperatives sectors.
To develop training programs for both the stakeholders and staff in Tourism, Trade, Industry, Cooperatives and LED.
To Compile and process and disseminate trade information, data and statistics to stakeholders.
To sensitize the communities on the Commercial services.
To provide stakeholders with technical advice on Tourism, Trade, industry and Cooperatives issues.
To promote Local Economic Development in the Municipality.
Duties & Responsibilities
Trade Cooperatives
Promote and ensure that expansion and diversification of Trade, cooperatives, environmentally sustainable industrialization
Business Development
Promotes business development, market regulation, and local enterprise growth
Trade Protocols
Implement trade protocols for the municipality
Trade Policies
Implement national trade policies and strategies
Technology
Develop appropriate technologies
Achievements
Radio talk shows participated in
Certifying Business Quality with UNBS Standards
MSMEs with Financial Literacy and Record Keeping
Assisting Businesses with the Registration Process
Connecting Producer Groups to Global Markets via UEPB
briefs disseminated in entire Municipality
Challenges
In spite of visible and tangible achievements, we are still faced with the following challenges;
1. Budget Cut: when the department was created FY 2019/2020, it experienced a budget cut from 32,000,000/= to 12,000,000/= This makes it impossible to achieve meaningful objectives.
2. Lack of departmental field vehicle; this makes mobility of staff during the field difficult yet there is a lot to cover.
3. Narrow tourism product diversity due to lack of funding from Ministry of Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities: Tourism activities are largely concentrated on wildlife by MoTWA yet there is various tourism potential across the country. For instance, Makindye Ssabagabo MC has an existing tourism potential in culture community, faith based conferences and business tourism.
Other relevant information
The Government of Uganda through the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives formulated the Buy Uganda Build Uganda (BUBU) Policy within the framework of several National Development Policies and strategies particularly the National Trade Policy (NTP), the National Industrial Policy (NIP), the National Standards and Quality Policy (NSQP), the National Cooperatives Policy among others.
Policy objective:
(i) To promote the consumption of local goods and services.
(ii) To promote the use and conformity to standards to guarantee quality goods and services.
(iii) To provide capacity-building programs to local suppliers of goods and services.
It is upon this background that Makindye ssabagabo Municipal Council organizes an Exhibition annually under the Department of trade, Industry and Local Economic Development which are in line with Buy Uganda Build Uganda Policy and therefore for that information all local producers are free to participate.
