• We will stop wastage of public resources and instead aim to invest resources in people on an equitable basis.
• We shall amend the Leadership Code to include empowering the Inspector General of Government to access financial records of all public officers, compare them to the declarations submitted and publish an annual report. Furthermore, all public servants shall be required to not only declare their assets but also their sources of income.
• We will institute and nurture a national value system that can be identified with by all people of Uganda irrespective of tribe and social status. 
• We shall begin to build a culture of honesty and integrity that moves people away from asking for brides and also to outrightly reject unsolicited kickbacks. More people  just be encouraged to blow the whistle and to isolate the corrupt. 
• Put in place measures to counter corruption by introducing accountability through a free press, greater transparency and easier access to information on public sector borrowing by civil society and other interested parties. 
• Conduct mass sensitisation and awareness on the effects of corruption on the population in order to recruit a critical mass of citizens determined to uproot corruption from Uganda. 
• Work with civil society to enhance greater understanding of social contracts amongst the citizenry thereby empowering them to question, challenge and hold elected and appointed leaders to account. 
• Institute social accountability platforms at sub-county levels where the rights holders interface with the duty bearers (both government and private sector) to discuss issues of concern and to wage rigorous campaigns against corruption. 
• Enhance partnerships with media, civil society and the entire citizenry to report corruption cases while ensuring sufficient protection for the whistle blowers. 
• Put in place stringent measures to ensure stolen money is recovered. These include freezing and liquidating the assets of all those found guilty in order to retrieve as much of the stolen funds as possible. 

• Guarantee human rights for all Ugandans
• In accordance with the Fifth schedule to the current Constitution of Uganda operationalise the following five (5) regional governments: the Eastern, The Central, the Southern, the Western and the Northern Regional Governments before end of 2017
• Re-instate presidential term limits to 2 terms of five years each by 2017
• Put in place institutional structures that can guide orderly succession of key offices like the one of the president
• Promote separation of powers and independence of the three arms of government (i.e. executive, legislative and judiciary) to avoid abuse of power 
• Reduce the parliament (house of representatives) to not more than 200 members, upper house of parliament (Senate) to not more than 20 and cabinet to not more than 20 to cut down on the tax payers’ burden 
• Ensure that all members of Cabinet are not members of Parliament i.e. Ministers should be ex-officio members of Parliament 
• Strengthening and empowering respective government officers to ensure accountability and effective delivery of services 
• Reduce the age limit for key positions like president, judges, ministers to vacate office on attaining the age of 70 years to allow new generations’ access to the decision making arena

• Emancipation (economic and political) of women in Uganda. Economic and political emancipation of women still remains one of the NRM’s priorities as a strategy for prosperity for all. NRM will ensure education of girls including their participation in politics. Also, we will continue to give women equal opportunity to participate in formal and informal gainful employment. Furthermore, we will fight against girl-child school drop-out by continuing to carry out mass awareness campaignsfor parents to appreciate the importance of education to them. In addition, we will create conditions that motivate a girl-child to stay in school. Empowerment of women will be strengthened by ensuring their participation in public sector decision-making and management. We will also continue recognising women’s rights, including the right to own property.
• Improving efficiency of the public service and reducing the cost of doing business. The NRM will continue to carry out reforms aimed at improving public service efficiency and reducing the cost of doing business. Public service institutions will be restructured, as part of the institutional reforms to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Particular focus will also be put on strengthening public sector management systems support to private sector growth.
  
  The one-stop business centre concept being piloted at the Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) will be introduced in other key towns to reduce bureaucracy and the cost of doing business in the country. Time frames will be given to Government agencies and departments within which they should complete business such as land registration and approval of construction plans.
• Continuing with affirmative action programmes. We will continue with the existing affirmative action programmes and projects in northern Uganda, parts of eastern Uganda, Karamoja and Luwero/Rwenzori. Similar ones will be introduced to address emerging issues in the regions of Busoga, Teso and Bunyoro. The NRM will continue to strengthen, harmonise and ensure a consistent legal, regulatory and policy environment conducive for national development as a core public good. Particular attention will be paid to solving recent spates of land disputes that are now rampant in northern and eastern Uganda where people who were formerly in camps have settled. 
• Improving access to justice. In order to improve access to justice, our resolve is to take justice nearer to the people. In particular, we will in a planned manner undertake the following:
  i) Establish formal courts at the sub-county level.
  ii) Pioneer implementation of mobile courts.
  iii) Expand small claims procedure courts to all districts.
  iv) Increase the High Court circuits from the current 13 to 20.
  v) Appoint more judicial officers and improve on their conditions of service.
  vi) Invest in technology to improve the efficiency of judicial officers.
  vii) Build regional centres for the Court of Appeal.
  viii) Make every district a magisterial area with a Chief Magistrate.
  ix) Appoint /hire acting Judges on short-term basis to reduce the backlog of cases.
  x) Operationalise the land tribunal system.
  xi) Where applicable expand the use of alternative dispute resolutions, and develop schemes where community approach in resolving disputes is applied.
• Strengthening the legal institutional frameworks . The Government will jealously protect the independence of the Judiciary and other institutions involved in the administration of justice by prioritising their financing and staffing in order to ensure their smooth operation and growth. 
• Media Freedom. Continue ensuring and guaranteeing media freedom. Furthermore, will work with the media houses to ensure professionalism is adhered to.
• Strengthening Decentralisation. The NRM Government is committed to continuing with the implementation of the decentralisation policy as an anchor for efficiency and effectiveness in public service delivery. This will be achieved through:
  
  i) Sustainable financing of Local Governments — The NRM Government will increase funding to local governments to match their mandates and roles as the national revenue envelope increases. In addition, the Local Economic Development (LED) programme will be promoted to facilitate expansion of the local economic activities and the revenue base for districts.
  ii) Empowering District Service Commissions (DSCs) to carry out their duties effectively. The duties include staff recruitment and disciplining those who breach the code of conduct. The empowerment will, in particular, stop the current challenge of failure to recruit teachers and health workers who are already within job ceiling but are not recruited. Also, many Local Government staff remain unconfirmed for long, which leads to low morale. With DSCs empowered, response to these issues will be swift and timely. 
  iii) Ease the requirements for jobs in districts (and also in the public service) to enable young people who qualify to successfully apply for them. 
  iv) Transport for Local Government officials. The NRM Government will facilitate Local Government Chairpersons with vehicles to enable them perform their duties effectively. Some 111 vehicles have already been procured.
  v) Administration at sub-county level will be strengthened to improve service delivery.
  
• Continuing with Local Council Courts. Cognizant of the important role Local Council Courts have played in administering justice in the countryside since the NRM captured power in 1986, we will develop and implement a national framework for the practice of informal systems of justice to ensure conformity with human rights standards and a seamless co-existence of the formal and informal justice systems such as clans. 
• Psycho-social support to women and girls in post-conflict areas. This will be provided to women and girls in post-conflict situations with special attention given to child-headed households and victims of the nodding disease.

• Undertake a comprehensive rationalization and restructuring of public sector institutions to remove mandate overlaps, create efficiency and cut down the cost of public administration.
• Reduce the size of cabinet to not more than 21 cabinet ministers. Strengthen offices of Permanent Secretaries, Directors and Commissioners.
• Undertake appropriate reforms to reduce the size of parliament from the projected 420 MPs to not more than 190 MPs. 
• Reduce the number of presidential advisors to not more than 10 advisors and limit the number of presidential assistants. The bulk of the work that presidential advisors claim to do is the same work exactly done by mainstream ministry personnel. 
• Merge the office of Resident District Commissioner and the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) to strengthen it to ensure effective coordination of central and local government development and service delivery programmes. 
• Rationalize the use of government vehicles by cutting down on the vehicle fleet and restricting the level of officials that will be provided with official vehicles. This measure will contribute to saving the tax payers from inflated vehicle maintenance costs, fuel costs and other forms of wastage.
• Pursue constitutional reforms to facilitate the adoption of a federal system of government that allows regions to exercise political, administrative and economic planning authority.
• Strengthening decentralization and local economic development by adopting policies to achieve administrative and fiscal decentralization, and supporting federal and local governments to become units of economic organization and transformation. 
• Progressively increase the percentage of the annual national budget allocated to local government spending programmes from the current 14 percent to atleast not less than 30 percent over the five years. 
• Support the economic vitality of local governments through the Present and Future Cities Programme and other economic stimulus programmes. 
• Establish a rewards programme to benefit regions and local governments that demonstrate the highest contribution to our Nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and innovation in accelerating job creation. 

Small Government

We believe in a small but efficient government. We are committed to reducing the size of cabinet and the cost of public administration to eliminate waste and improve efficiency. The following is our proposed list of portfolios for government ministries:

Necessary Constitutional and other amendments

• Amend the constitution to restore the provision of presidential term limits.
• Amend the constitution to provide for a two tier parliament; a lower and upper parliament (Senate) comprising of two senators per region as of 1962. Amend the constitution to reduce the size of the low parliament.
• Amend the constitution to reduce the size of parliament. Where a Member of Parliament should represent at least 200,000 persons.
• Amend the constitution to provide for appointment of the Chairman, Deputy Chairperson and Commissions of Electoral Commission from a list of eminent Ugandans nominated by political parties in parliament.
• Amend the constitution to provide a parliamentary position for all presidential candidates that poll at least 5% of the National voter in a general election.
• Amend the constitution to provide for dissolution of some power and resources from the central government to regional and local governments

Performance of Members of Parliament and Government Ministers

• Each MP will be required to submit to parliament within six (6) months of being elected a 5-year development plan outlining priority programmes and projects for his or her constituency. The plans will be developed with the help of technical support from relevant departments.
• A Constituency Development Fund will be established and funded with 1 percent of the National Budget.
• Each Minister will be required to present a brief on the strategic direction of his or her ministry before approval by parliament.

Citizens Protection Bureau

• Establish a Citizens Protection Bureau headed by the Public Defender with expanded powers to defend the rights of citizens.
• Make provision for judicial review of the decisions of the Direction of public prosecutions.
• Ensure sufficient funding and staffing for the Human Rights Commission.

Appointment to sensitive posts

• Appointment to sensitive posts listed below that ensure critical delivery of good governance, will require approval by 60% majority of parliamentary vote.