NRM Government Achieves 84% of 2021-2026 Manifesto Pledges, Aims for 100% Completion

The National Resistance Movement (NRM) government has fulfilled over 80% of the 2021-2026 pledges as indicated in its manifesto.

During a Tuesday, November 19, 2024, interview in Kampala, Willis Bashasha, the director of Manifesto implementation at the Office of the President said that in the midterm performance, the NRM government has revived the agriculture sector increasing from sh39.1 trillion in the financial year 2021/2022 to 43 trillion in the financial year   2022/23.Key points among their achievements are increased job creation, and poverty alleviation through the Parish Development Model programme, among others.PDM is a government multi-sectoral strategy to reducing poverty, by moving 39% households (i.e. 3.5 million households or 16.1 million Ugandans) under subsistence economy (living hand-to-outh), into the money economy.

This strategy is drawn out of the NRM manifesto, the NRM’s ideological core principles and pillars (in particular, social-economic transformation), and the NRM’s strategy for delivering social economic transformation through the priority sectors of commercial agriculture, Services, ICT and Industrialisation.Bashasha noted that in the past three-and-a-half years of their NRM political term, the NRM government has managed to realise 84% of the pledges with hopes of hitting 100% before the beginning of next term.

  Bashasha, however, pointed out several challenges that have frustrated the full realisation of the 2021-2026 manifesto, among them is the unfair land policies which he says have delayed infrastructure projects.

  NRM is Uganda’s largest ruling party and has been in power since 1986.The party was founded as a liberation movement that waged a successful protracted people’s struggle that liberated Uganda from fascist and dictatorial regimes, according to its website. “The National Resistance Movement restored political stability, respect for human rights, national unity, peace, security, law and order, Constitutionalism and the rule of law… introduced democracy and enfranchised the people of Uganda through restoration of the vote in regular, free and fair elections”. 

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