Investing in Our People

Education and technical training, together with healthcare, are the key mechanisms by which Uganda can transform its people into highly productive and competitive individuals whose combined activities will lead to rapid economic growth, social transformation and national development.




Museveni's Government has failed to deliver quality education and health services for Ugandans. People now feel insecure about their future and let down by a Government that they had put so much faith in.

FDC believes that high quality education, greater investment in healthcare and reliable social security support for disadvantaged groups like the elderly, widows, orphans and people with disability will unleash the full potential of Ugandans and provide security for the future.

• FFDC will provide quality compulsory primary education for all,, and in turn commit parents to ensuring that their children attend school. We will ensure that our primary education policy takes into account the particular needs of orphans, the girl-child, children with disabilities, and other vulnerable children and those from conflict areas.



• FDC will recruit sufficient teachers, improve their pay and provide housing to them. We will deliver more instruction materials for our schools, and ensure better infrastructure and higher standards in education. We will drastically reduce the high drop-out rates among girls.



• FDC willrestore and expand quality secondary educationin public schools in all districts of Uganda. We will rehabilitate infrastructures, construct laboratories and workshops, and provide sufficient scholastic materials.



• FDC will implementwell-planned, phased, free, quality secondary educationfor all. We will start with free secondary education for girls to stem high dropouts in primary, for people with disabilities, poor boys and children from conflict affected areas.



• FDC will purposefully investment intechnical and vocational educationto build skilled human resources and stimulate an entrepreneurial economy.



• FDC will start by rehabilitating and reequipping the technical institutes and colleges, vocational training centers, and rehabilitation centers for those with special needs. We will also introduce affirmative action for girls, women and people with disabilities to increase their opportunities for training.



• FDC will encourage, promote and support rapid expansion of quality training in practical skills such as science, technology and IT.



• FDC will restore and promotehigh-quality university educationto ensure international competitiveness of our trained people. We will seek highly qualified academics and rationalize the lecturer-student ratio, fees structures, and government sponsorship. We will also rehabilitate and improve the infrastructure in our universities, and introduce full semester systems to accommodate poor students.



• FDC will widenforeign language teachingin our schools and institutions, with expansion of the teaching of French and Swahili, and introduction of new languages such as Chinese and Arabic, to help Uganda compete in the global economy.



• FDC will offer incentives to support private providers of education services at all levels.




• FDC believes that sports play an important part in our national life. We will therefore promote talent identification in schools, invest in sporting facilities, and provide grants in conjunction with the private sector.



• FDC will seek to realize the huge economic opportunity that professional sports hold for the youth and the nation.

• FDC will ensure adequate access to effective and affordable treatment and drugsfor all Ugandans. We will promote the local manufacture of high-quality drugs critical to combating diseases such as malaria, TB and HIV/AIDS.



• FDC Government will go beyond the ABC (abstinence, being faithful, and condoms) strategy, and will implement an A to Z strategy for HIV/AIDS control. This will build on prevention, but also include universal access to free or cheap AIDS drugs and effective social protection and psycho-social support for those infected and affected. The FDC strategy will pay special attention to protecting the rights of widows and children orphaned by the HIV/AIDS pandemic.



• FDC will transform Uganda's healthcare system to equitably meet the basic needs of people, in both rural and urban areas. FDC will deliver well-managed public and primary healthcareservices to all.



• FDC will implement a special clinical support programme to attract and retain skilled doctors and nurses in hospitals, schools and colleges. Our doctors and nurses will receive improved pay and better working conditions.



• FDC will develop a national plan for healthcare and life insurancefor all, in order to increase value for money and efficiency of health service delivery, and to promote national savings and investments.

• FDC will evolve strategies to ensuresustainable incomes for senior citizens of over 70 years of age who have no pension cover. We will also initiate free programs to maintain their health and welfare.They will have a monthly stipend provided by the state.



• FDC will ensure that civil servants who retire from public service are paid all theirgratuities immediately upon retirement.



• FDC will pay all pensions promptly each month, and will endeavor to pay all outstanding pensions and gratuities expeditiously.



• FDC will abide by the constitutional principles of affirmative actionfor women, youths, people with disabilities and other vulnerable groups. Affirmative action will be pursued in government contracting, credit schemes and other programs to benefit these groups.

• FDC will direct all policies - such as investment in infrastructure, anddeveloping neglected areasto promote a united Uganda as the best foundation for nationhood, patriotism, and social cohesion.




• FDC will tailor our education programs for national integration, and promote civic education to inform and unite our people in a sense of nationhood.



• FDC will put in place a permanent institution for civic education



• FDC will defend our richcultural heritage and traditionand promote our people's self-belief and pride in our country's inheritance, and in our Party motto ofOne Uganda, One People.