• Revise the legal framework to amend the National Council of Sports Act so that all national bodies are accountable to the government as well as stakeholders.
• Develop policies that will encourage private investment in sports with options for public private partnerships, foreign direct investment and engage the Olympic Solidarity to help in sports development.
• Create Regional Sports Centres of Excellence (stadia) where young athletes can go for further training. 
• Make sports relevant in schools at all levels by recognizing and rewarding students who excel. Institute district and regional competitions to help identify talent for further support. 
• Protect sporting facilities and ban the giving away of existing sporting grounds. 
• Create a separate Ministry for Sports with its own budget.
• Establish a youth sports development master plan for both in-school and out of school youth and renovate all district stadia while protecting public sports grounds and facilities. 
• Develop one National Sports Academy with world class facilities to support the Regional Sports Centres of Excellence. All sports persons who excel at regional level shall proceed to the Academy for specialized training. These persons shall join the national teams and represent Uganda at sporting events.
• Institute early youth post primary sports scholarships and encourage districts and companies to offer sports bursaries to excellent school-going sports persons.

National Teams: Aiming for the Stars

• We will fully support Uganda Cranes to qualify for 2017 Africa Cup of Nations qualification in Gabon and maintain players’ stamina and motivation for the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations qualification in Cameroon. Uganda Cranes must be empowered to compete at the Confederation of African Football (CAF) finals of 2017 and 2019 and have a chance to qualify for 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia and 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar. 
• We commit to lobby to host and sponsor International, African and Central and East African sports tournaments in Uganda. 
• We shall institute a policy to pay all Uganda national team members a living wage for the time they maintain a place on each sport’s national team and for Ex-international sports individuals, each shall be entitled to a pension upon attainment of retirement age. 
• We will institute and support a National Sports symposium that will help sports men and women to bond across disciplines and celebrate their contributions to our country.
• We will support an insurance policy that will cover the National Team Members and a basic number of their family members as well asset competitive international allowance to reasonable and motivating levels. 
• Recognize medalists as national sporting ambassadors with a lifetime benefit

• Continue with the training of teachers of physical education, including conducting sports in-service training for teachers annually, as a means of strengthening physical education and sports in schools. 
• Emphasise physical education and sports in the curriculum at all levels of education and training in the country. 
• Strengthen the policy and legal frameworks governing sports in order to enhance professionalism and integrity in sports. Complement this with support for training coaches of various disciplines to improve the performance and attain professionalism.
• Support the construction of sports facilities throughout the country. For instance the high altitude athletics training centre in Kapchwora is under construction.
• Give incentives to private investors interested in setting up sports academies in Uganda. Ugandans graduating from these academies will market Uganda when they excel.
• Support all sports associations to identify and nurture talent at local and national level. 
• Facilitate national teams to participate in international tournaments when they qualify. 
• Work closely with different sports associations and develop a plan to develop respective sports disciplines in the country so that they excel at regional and international levels. 
• Increase Ugandan athletes’ exposure to international events to enable them to gradually excel and break international records. 
• Promote sports in the country by doing the following: 
  I. Develop and institute a policy of affirmative action for persons talented in sports.
  II. Provide bursaries and scholarships for elite athletes.
  III. Put in place a national rewards scheme for excelling national athletes.
  IV. Put in place a pension scheme for nationally acclaimed sports persons.
  V. Put in place incentives for private sector investment in sports.

• Sports is developed, promoted and supported in all educational institutions and all sports facilities across the country are upgraded to acceptable standards. Specifically sports is going to be made compulsory in primary and secondary schools so that in addition to nurturing talent, the students become physically fit and establish among them the culture of continuous fitness exercises for the rest of their lives; 
• Sports facilities are going to be made a requirement in all higher education institutions; and my government shall ensure that all communities across the country have the required sports facilities. 

• FDC recognises the wider value of sports in our youthful society including improving health, tourism, employability and it’s important role in boosting our economy. We will support the grassroots to make every sport valued. In schools and communities, we will invest in equipment, sports halls, modern pitches and provide incentives, scholarships for talented sportsmen and women to pursue higher education. Our government will thus deal with the necessary amendments of the existing sports laws to allow them accommodate modern sports needs and innovations in sports governance. 
• We shall reset the crude measurement for sports, from just aiming for only medals to participation and ability to influence the world of sport through governance. There will be a stable investment in sports and schools for academic and professional studies in sports. 
• Successfully delivering sporting events has a positive impact on Uganda’s reputation. We shall build more sports infrastructure so that we put Uganda in a better position of competing for the hosting of regional and international sports events. 
• We shall use our power of government to support and promote our sport officials to improve governance. We shall ensure that through collaboration and sharing best practice, we all work towards upholding the integrity of sport and to ensure transparency and accountability in sports governance.