Under the East African Community regional framework, Uganda together with the other East African Community Partner States has adopted the East African Common Market Protocol (CMP 2010) which allows the free movement of labour, capital, right of residence and the right of establishment and is working closely with the other Partner states to implement the provisions of the Protocol. Government, through the responsible Ministry of East African Affairs has accordingly developed a national implementation strategy, a road map and also set up coordination mechanisms at both policy and technical level to see to the implementation of the East African Common Market Protocol. ARTICLE 13: The Right to Freedom of Participation in Governance Legislative Measures: In 2005 Uganda conducted a national referendum that opened up political space to allow for the creation of a multiparty dispensation. Two general elections have since been held in 2006 and 2011 and on both occasions the domestic and international observers agreed that the results reflected the general will of the Ugandan people. Other Measures: Decentralization: In a bid to ensure increased people participation in their governance and also increased access to public services by all citizens, government is strengthening and deepening decentralization. Accordingly, government has continued to reduce larger districts into smaller ones in order to bring the administrative apparatus of government closer to all local communities. By the end of 2016 Uganda is expected to have about 135 districts in all and each of them will have among other development services, a complete road unit. Barazas Government introduced and operationalized barazas at grass roots which are community meetings to hold their leaders accountable for development programmes and resources. NEPAD: In July 2010 on the side lines of the July 2010 African Union Summit in Kampala, Uganda was honored to host the summit of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD). This new partnership is a pledge by African leaders based on the common vision and a firm and shared conviction that they have a pressing duty to eradicate poverty and to place their countries both individually and collectively on a path of sustainable growth and development and at the same time to participate actively in the world economy and body politic. Uganda has continued to implement the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM) Programme of Action 2008/092010/11, which was drawn out of the Country Self-Assessment involving citizens at all levels. A National Governing Council composed of Civil Society, private sector and government is charged with monitoring of the implementation of this commitment by government. The first progress report on the implementation of the APRM Programme of Action was presented by H.E the President to his Peers in the APRM Summit which took place in January 2010, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and in July 2012 at the AU summit in Addis Ababa, H.E the President again presented the 2nd and 3rd country report. Elections: Prior to the general elections which took place in February 2011, the Electoral Commission embarked on the exercise of updating, cleaning and displaying the voters register in a country wide exercise in order to ensure that persons who had turned eighteen years since the last general election in 2006 got registered and exercised their right to vote. This is in 21