standards and codes. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA) on 18 th
June 2009 presented to Parliament a compendium of all Protocols and
Treaties indicating the dates when they were entered into, signed,
ratified, acceded and succeeded. This is part of a process of laying in the
public domain protocols, conventions and treaties that Uganda has
signed and ratified..
2.0.3 Progress has also been made with regard to capacity strengthening in
the MoFA Department of Multilateral Organisations and Treaties. The
Ministry of Public Service reviewed the structure of the MoFA and
created a legal division. Consequently, the MoFA was embarking on a
recruitment exercise to fill the identified posts in that division.
2.1 Democracy and Political Governance
2.1.1 Significant progress has been achieved in preventing and reducing intrastate conflicts. The efforts geared towards amending the 1998 Land Act
and formulation of the National Land policy, especially enabling
uninhibited and prolonged wide stakeholder consultations in both
processes, has laid the basis for achieving consensus on these highly
controversial issues.
2.1.2 Security has been restored in Northern Uganda, despite the failure by the
LRA leader, Joseph Kony to sign the Final Peace Agreement in Juba on
10th April 2008. Government has also put in place the Peace, Recovery
and Development Programme (PRDP) for Northern Uganda and the
Karamoja Integrated Disarmament and Development Programme
(KIDDP) for supporting the recovery and development of Northern
Uganda and Karamoja respectively. Capacity strengthening of the Office
of the Prime Minister to implement these programmes is commendable.
The full-scale implementation of the PRDP will start in July 2009, as
resources have been fully mobilised and provided. The implementation
of the KIDDP has been on-going.
2.1.3 Significant progress has been achieved in preventing and reducing interstate conflicts. Frameworks have been put in place to manage border
disputes, which enabled potentially volatile situations with neighbouring
countries to be harmoniously and amicably managed. This was with
regard to the Rukwanzi Island in Lake Albert and Goli border strip in