Natural Resources Promises

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The key purpose is to ensure that wealth from extractives like oil and minerals benefits all Ugandans, starting with the communities from which these resources are harvested. My government will:

Ensure that communities around natural resource areas are the first line of beneficiaries through job allocation and amenities like roads, schools and hospitals. Since most of the country is endowed with one resource or another, this would benefit nearly 70 percent of Ugandans.
Ensure that fishing and commercial fish farming, currently a $120m industry, should be an exclusive preserve for Ugandans. This applies to sand mining too.
Undertake a review of the legal and regulatory framework and the policies to manage the oil resource, to ensure that revenue from oil and minerals is declared and handled transparently.
Conserve natural resources like forests which have a great benefit for the environment and tourism. We shall also educate the population on alternative sources of energy at the household level which we shall make cheap and readily available.
Ensure that expropriation for the purposes of exploration or mining will be done fairly and affected families given reasonable compensation that will be done in a transparent manner.
Promote civic environmental education on the importance and care required for water catchment areas and riparian land. Ensure proper wildlife management that protects Uganda’s wildlife from poachers and addresses human-wildlife conflict.