• Dedicate atleast 30 percent of opportunities such as funding, jobs and procurement available under publicly funded programmes for the benefit of the youth.
• Facilitate smooth transitions of youth from school to the world of work by establishing 10 regional employment transition training centres, including training to increase occupational and geographical mobility of labor.
• Take deliberate actions to decentralize economic and industrial development activities to be pursued alongside the Present and Future Cities Programme, to stimulate local economic development and create jobs across the country. 
• Create incentives for public- private partnerships to benefit the young unemployed people. 
• Ensure a quality education that prepares our youth to compete regionally and  internationally. 
• Develop atleast 15 modern regional sports facilities across the country.

• Allocating at least 6% of the national budget to Trade, Job creation and Industry 
• Setting up a Youth Development Bank to offer low interest loans to youth with extra ordinary start up ideas and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
• Working in partnership the private sector to extend financial services and mobile money services to rural areas 
• Promoting the setting up and running of community based Savings, Cooperatives, and Credit Societies (SACCOs) 
• Achieving skilled workforce through improving education sector 
• Promoting business incubation and putting in place a framework to support startups
• Setting up of venture capital funds to support startups and small businesses 
• Transforming Makerere University Business School (MUBS) into a fully fledged University in 2016 to among others coordinate and oversee the provision of business education to (owners of) small and medium enterprises and support business incubation and development among the youth (groups) across the country
• Favorable regulation environment and reforming the tax system to support new players in job creation
• Steering more students into technical and vocational institutions to promote skills development 
• Providing technical support to the informal sector with the aim of enabling them formalize their businesses 
• Helping small businesses to tap into regional markets 
• Creating a national jobs database to help monitor employment levels 
• Putting in place a research and development fund to support (new) businesses 
• Promoting and supporting the ICT services sector 
• Promoting and supporting Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) to create at least one million jobs in BPO sector for Ugandans in the first two (2) years in office 
• Promoting all types of tourism supported by the Ugandan laws as way of creating more jobs for Ugandans and also contributing to national earnings. The government shall upgrade the Uganda Hotel and Tourism Institute to provide core human resources needed in the tourism sector. 
• Developing and promoting sports as a business at local, regional and national levels by providing support to the sports clubs and teams, and developing and maintaining sports facilities across the country 
• Providing incentives to labour intensive companies and those that offer apprenticeship to enable graduates acquire work experience 
• Lowering taxes in labour intensive sectors and reducing regulation to make hiring less expensive

New Initiatives

• The Volunteer Graduate program, that will engage all fresh graduates who wish to join, will support this unique transformative program.
• Our Government will establish the Uganda National Seed Corporation to supply, regulate and standardize seed in Uganda. We expect through the seed chain from production of foundation seed to actual seed production, marketing and distribution to have created over 5,000 new technical jobs. 
• To guarantee competitive prices and market for agricultural products, Government will establish the The Agricultural Commodities Exchange (Public) Company. This will link the owner of produce (cooperatives) and the buyers including importers abroad. This company will create more than 1500 new jobs. 
• The Residential Solar Grid-Tied System will require the installation and maintenance of solar panels for about 180,000 homes. This will create about 2000 new jobs from the procurement of the panels to their maintenance. 
• By lowering taxes (exempting all businesses from paying VAT on their electricity used as well as the lowering of the VAT rate from 18% to 16%), our government willbe encouraging more industries to be set up and more sales and profits. On account of this new measure alone,thousands of new jobs will be created.

• The programme of developing industrial parks will be further promoted by fast-tracking provision of roads, water, and power in these parks. Also, we will consider putting up ready-to-use warehouse structures for foreign investors and local SMEs that find it hard to invest in buying land and putting up structures for their factories.
• Encourage the youth to undertake integrated patriotism, skilling and elementary military science training in order to re-orient mind-sets, attitudes and perceptions of the youth towards vocational skills, hard work and national values. This will improve the country’s labour productivity and also make it more competitive within the region. 
• Organise a crash vocational training programme for over 50,000 unemployed graduates in humanities and social sciences to enhance their employability skills.
• Support youth who come up with innovations, especially in software applications, to commercialise their products. 
• Prioritise investment in infrastructure like rail, roads, power dams and power transmission. Investment in these sectors on their own create jobs, but overall investment in infrastructure will continue to bring down the cost of doing business, which will in turn attract private investment and creation of jobs 
• The ongoing skilling programmes in the country will be stepped up to enhance capacity of school leavers for self-employment and employability. In addition to these initiatives, unemployed graduates will be re-skilled in vocational disciplines to enhance their employability and capacity for selfemployment. 
• Continue with construction of markets to provide workplaces and employment opportunities for market vendors in the following towns; Entebbe, Arua, Mbarara, Soroti, Busia, Kasese, Masaka, Moroto, Tororo, Lugazi and Kitgum. In Kampala City, the following markets will be constructed: Nakulabye, Ntinda, Busega, Kasubi and Kansanga. In addition, we will improve roadside markets along highways to provide better workplaces to those in the industry. They will be provided with power and better storage facilities so that their goods don’t perish. 
• Enhance the capacity of implementing agencies such as the Business, Technical and Vocational Education and Training (BTVET), the Directorate of Industrial Training (DIT), the Technical and Industrial Education and Training (TIET) with a view to produce graduates with skills that are relevant to the country’s current needs.
• Review the minimum wage with a view to match the cost of living and growth achievements in the economy. The pay for public servants will,on the other hand, be harmonised and periodically reviewed within affordable levels to ensure high productivity and morale. 
• Mobilise and sensitise workers on ethics and attitudes to work, including imparting of multi-skills to enable them to remain relevant and competitive in the labour market at national and international levels. 
• Empower disadvantaged groups of society like rural women, youth and the disabled by giving them equal opportunity to skilling and employment. Introduce/strengthen comprehensive secondary schools in the country to enhance vocational skills education/training with the view to produce school leavers who are equipped with vocational skills and are oriented towards technical work. 
• The curriculum and science teaching methods at all levels of education will be reviewed to ensure the education system supports production of graduates with the required appropriate skills. 
• We will continue to pursue the following labour tenets: Security of tenure at the workplaces, safety and health issues in workplaces, expansion of social protection coverage for workers and their families and working towards social dialogue between employees and employers. 
• Put emphasis on value-addition for our primary products in the agricultural, mining, oil and gas sectors with the view of creating jobs, for our people, increase national earnings from exports and reduce the import bill. This will lead to sustainable job-creation and gainful employment. 
• We will continue to protect our children from all forms of child labour, including combating all forms of human trafficking. 
• The framework for labour unions and the workers to co-operate as partners with government and employers will be strengthened. This will include developing effective and progressive workers’ unions for effective dialogue. 
• Instill patriotism and progressive work ethics with a view to curb violent and confrontational approaches to resolving labour and employment issues.
• Through our embassies abroad, identify countries we can export labour to in an organised manner so that Ugandans that get employment abroad are not exploited.
• Strengthen the enforcement of the various labour laws to ensure that workers are not exploited and mistreated.