Uganda Vision 2040 for local translation

Oct 04, 2013

A new popular version of Uganda Vision 2040 will be unveiled by December and will be translated into six local languages.

By Francis Emorut

The National Planning Authority (NPA) is unveiling a new popular version of Uganda Vision 2040 by December, and will be translated into six popular local languages.

This was revealed by the authority’s acting executive director, Kasingye Kyamugambe.

The country’s vision will be translated into Lunyoro-kitara, Luo, Luganda, Ateso, Kuk-sebenyi and Kiswahili.

Kyamugambe said the popular version will be simplified so that even a person who did not study beyond Primary Two will be able to read and understand it.

According to him, the current version of Vision 2040 can only be read and understood by university graduates.

“The popular version will be simplified where a village person who stopped at P2 or P3 he/she can understand the role they are supposed to play in national development,” Kyamugambe told guests during the Vision 2040 dissemination meeting.

The meeting took place on Thursday at Hotel Africana in Kampala and was organized by the National non-governmental organization forum aimed at taking Uganda Vision 2040 forward and to ensure that it is implemented.

The Uganda Vision 2040 which was launched by President, Yoweri Museveni, is a long-term plan containing aspirations of Ugandans to operationalize the country’s vision which is “a transformed society from a peasant to a modern and prosperous country within 30 years”.

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It aims at transforming Uganda from a predominantly peasant and low income country of per capita income $506 (about sh1.3m) to a competitive upper middle income country of per capita income $9,500 (about sh24.3m) by 2040.

The NPA acting chief explained that Vision 2040 will have diagrammatic representation which translates to what each Uganda should do as far as the Vision 2040 is concerned.

The Uganda Vision 2040 articulates strategies to enable Ugandans enjoy high quality standard of living by focusing on improving the quality of the country’s population, health and nutrition status, literacy and numeracy, housing, water and sanitation conditions and provision of social protection for the citizenry.

Critics however, especially members of opposition, have cast doubts over success of the plan.

Silvia Angey Ufoyuru, the head governance and public sector management at NPA appealed to all Ugandans to support Vision 2040 and not castigate it instead.

She explained that in order to achieve the goals of Vision 2040, fundamentals such as infrastructure especially roads, energy, railways and human resource must be addressed.

Participants however put to task the authority officials to explain what they meant by “transformed peasantry to a modern and prosperous country” in simple language.


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