Promoting Local Content and Analysing the Effectiveness of Local Content Policies in Uganda’s Oil and Gas Sector: A Case Study of Hoima District
| dc.contributor.author | Kolping Francis Mugabi | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-05-08T10:48:37Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-05-08T10:48:37Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2024-04-29 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Upon discovering vast deposits of any natural resources, most developing countries undertake progressive initiatives aimed at facilitating the extraction of such resources so as to attain revenue. Upon the realization of commercially viable Oil and Gas deposits in the Albertine Graben along Uganda’s western border with DR. Congo, Uganda embarked on the above mentioned trajectory, not only aiming at attaining direct revenue from Oil and Gas sales but also maximizing other potential benefits from the resource with a view of promoting development and curtailing the adverse effects of the oil curse (Dutch disease) that has often plagued resource rich countries especially in the developing world. To achieve the above, resource rich countries, Uganda inclusive have designed policies and legal frameworks which are termed as National and Local Content Policies. The main aim of those policies is to ensure that the extractives industry generates benefits to the economy that are beyond the direct contribution of trading in oil and gas and these can be achieved through its links with other sectors. In most parts of Hoima, and other oil-rich Districts, there is a consensus, that the lack of specialized skills and a competitive local services and goods sector is a major obstacle to the realization of National/Local Content goals. This has in turn forced many oil rich countries to promote National content policies that generally focus on the entire country without giving special consideration to the local content promotion within host communities in oil rich regions. This research will concentrate on an analysis of Uganda’s National and Local Content Policies specifically examining how Hoima District has benefited from Uganda’s National and local content framework. This research is designed to act as a building block on how the legal framework can be structured to benefit local communities in Oil and Gas Districts and whether the individual residents and businesses have and will ultimately benefit from Oil and Gas. The research will also draw insights from the challenges faced by other developing countries in implementing and enforcing National and Local Content Policies at both a national and local level, the lessons that Uganda ought to learn and mitigating measures the residents of Hoima District and Uganda at large have to adopt to cut short the negative effects of poorly structured and ineffectively enforced National and Local Content Policies. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11951/1249 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Uganda Christian University | |
| dc.title | Promoting Local Content and Analysing the Effectiveness of Local Content Policies in Uganda’s Oil and Gas Sector: A Case Study of Hoima District | |
| dc.type | Dissertation |