Manifestos vs Vision: Do Presidential Candidates Align with the 10x Growth Strategy? As Uganda heads into another election cycle filled with lofty pledges, the real question is whether any manifesto will align with the country’s long-term growth blueprint. With NDP IV and the 10x10 strategy now defining Uganda’s economic direction, the next administration will be judged on continuity, discipline and delivery, not promises.

Every election season in Uganda blooms with promises of transformation. Candidates unfurl manifestos brimming with pledges to create jobs, industrialize, end poverty, and modernize agriculture. Yet beneath the familiar rhetoric lies a deeper question: Will any of these promises align with Uganda’s long-term growth blueprint? NDP IV and the 10×10 growth strategy Uganda’s newly unveiled Fourth National Development Plan (NDP IV), covering 2025/30, defines the economic direction for the next administration. It operationalizes the country’s 10×10 Growth Strategy, an ambitious framework designed to make the economy ten times larger by 2040. This plan, not the next manifesto, will determine whether…