1. RISE NATIONAL STAKEHOLDERS FORUM

Uganda at the Dawn of a New Era

Uganda stands ready to leap into a high-tech, high-value future, where intelligence, innovation, and strategic capital turn challenges into engines of growth. For decades, the country’s progress has been guided by fragmented interventions and approaches not designed for scale, speed, or structural leapfrogging. As a result, vast national potential remains untapped, and systemic challenges persist.

A Historic Opportunity

Today, Uganda has a clear opportunity to reset its development trajectory. Rather than continuing along low value-addition pathways that limit productivity and competitiveness — and perpetuate poverty and joblessness — the country can pursue a high-value, technology-enabled growth model capable of delivering sustained income growth and employment at scale.

RISE for Uganda operationalizes this shift by converting national challenges into investable, scalable opportunities. It focuses on building industries that generate high-value jobs, attract strategic capital, and compete effectively in regional and global markets — positioning Uganda for sustained, technology-enabled economic advancement.

A Mission for High-Impact Growth

The RISE Platform brings together innovators, financiers, regulators, and industry leaders to co-create opportunities that are commercially viable and socially impactful. Achieving this vision at a national scale requires coordinated action across the entire ecosystem.

Uganda Development Bank (UDB) therefore, calls upon all stakeholders to unite around this mission of high-value, innovation-driven, and technology-enabled economic breakthrough. By leveraging domestic expertise, channelling strategic capital, and aligning public and private actors, UDB invites collaboration to build a pipeline of investable, high-tech solutions across priority sectors — from clean energy and agri-food systems to infrastructure, Industrial real estate & construction, advanced manufacturing, and cross-sectoral technologies — designed to generate high-quality employment, increase high-value exports, and create a sustainable, resilient economic landscape.

A Practical Response to the 10-Fold Growth Strategy

RISE for Uganda is more than a platform — it is a practical tool to implement the nation’s 10-fold growth strategy on the ground. By harnessing technology, innovation, and strategic capital, Uganda can not only keep pace with global advances but emerge as a regional and global leader in high-value, innovation-driven, and technology-enabled growth.

Forum Objectives

Introduce RISE to Stakeholders

Present the platform as a practical comprehensive solution to turn Uganda’s societal, economic, and environmental challenges into high-impact, high-value opportunities.

Align Public and Private Actors

Convene government ministries, regulators, financial institutions, technology innovators, academic institutions, and industry leaders around a shared vision for a high-tech, globally competitive Uganda.

Showcase Sectoral Opportunities

Highlight opportunities across energy, agri-food, infrastructure, industrial real estate & construction, advanced manufacturing, and cross-sectoral technologies.

Inspire Collaborative Action

Encourage stakeholders to move from following opportunities to creating them, fostering collaboration that produces bankable, commercially viable, and socially impactful solutions.

Mobilize Strategic Capital

By ensuring that capital is deployed into high-impact, system-aligned ventures with measurable outcomes, RISE transforms the use of funds into a powerful engine for capital mobilization — attracting shareholders, governments, and investors seeking both performance and real-world impact.

Position Uganda as a Leapfrogging Nation

Communicate the country’s potential to bypass traditional development pathways and achieve a high-tech, high-value future in line with the national 10-fold growth strategy.