From: James Akena
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Subject: {UAH} Goals of the Plan
GOALS OF THE PLAN
(i) The Second Five-Year Plan is the first-phase
programme of a long-term perspective plan to transform the economic and social
structure of Uganda. A basic aim of this long-term perspective plan is to
double monetary income per capita (at 1964 prices) from its present level of
about £25 to £50 by 1981. This implies that total output must treble over the
fifteen-year period because of the growth in population.
(ii) Overall economic growth, however, is not by itself an
adequate objective. There must be an equitable distribution of wealth and of
services such as medical treatment, and there must be equality of opportunity,
especially of educational opportunity.
(iii) The Second Five-Year Plan itself has therefore three
main goals: -
(a) Increased Production and Wealth,
(b) Diversification of Production,
(c) Social and Economic Justice.
(a) Increased Production and Wealth
(iv) The Plan aims to increase monetary output by almost 41
per cent, which is an average of 7.2 per cent per annum, and to increase
monetary income per capita by 25 per cent. The share of monetary product in
total national product will increase from 76 per cent in 1966 to 79 per cent in
1971 and 86 per cent in 1981.
(v) Cash crop agriculture will be extended with the goal of
ensuring that all farmers receive the major part of their income from cash
sales. The Plan will lead to a decline in the relative importance of
subsistence production, the cumulative effect of which will reduce this sector
to minor importance by 1981, by which time it is intended that subsistence
production will account for less than one-seventh of total output.
(b) Diversification of Production
(vi) Under the Plan the Ugandan economy will be diversified
by a rapid expansion of manufacturing industry, and by expanding the production
of tea, sugar, livestock and several other cash crops which are at present of
only minor importance.
(vii) Industry – There will be a major expansion in the
industrial sector. Industry excluding crop processing will grow considerably
faster than the overall economy, i.e. 12.2 per cent per annum compared with 6.3
per cent per annum. The product of manufacturing, other than crop and food
processing, will be almost doubled.
(viii) Agriculture – Agricultural output in the monetary sector
should grow at 5.1 per cent per annum. Considerable diversification will take
place. The share of agriculture, including crop processing and forestry,
fishing and hunting, in total income will be reduced from its present level of
44 per cent to 40 per cent in 1971.
(ix) Achievement of these targets requires an expansion in
the range of cash crops produced, very large increases in tea and sugar
production, an increase in cotton to 575,000 bales, growth in Arabica coffee
production, an improvement in the quality of robusta produced, and a major
expansion in the production of foodstuffs and animal products.
(x) Infrastructure – The communications network will be
considerably expanded and improved, including roads, railways,
telecommunications and airport facilities. A second hydro-electric station will
be built on the Nile.
(c) Social and Economic Justice
(xi) A comprehensive Plan must make provision not only for a
rapid increase in total wealth but also for its equitable distribution among
the people. Without this social justice a country may achieve rapid economic
growth and yet be a worse society in which to live than it was previously.
(xii) This Plan therefore provides for substantial progress to
be made towards a more equitable distribution both of material wealth and of
social services. The incomes policy embodied in the Plan is not only designed
to be consistent with the growth targets; it also provides for the wage rates
of the lower paid to rise substantially faster than those of the higher paid.
Educational, medical and other services will become available to an
ever-increasing proportion of the people of Uganda. Moreover careful planning
has ensured that every part of the country will benefit from the programme of
development planned.
(xiii) Education – In education, the long-term goal is to produce
by 1981 enough qualified Ugandans to man all jobs in the country. As the first
step towards achieving this long-term objective, it is planned to increase the
number of pupils at senior secondary school to 35,000 in 1971, and to build
many new technical and teacher-training school places. It is also planned to
increase the number of Ugandans studying at University-level from 1,800 to some
3,300 in 1971.
(xiv) Over 200,000 new primary places will be built during the
Plan. By the end of the Third Plan in 1976, there will be well over a million
children in primary school.
(xv) Health – By the end of the Plan 22 new hospital will have
been opened in rural areas, and many other hospitals will have been improved
and extended. The total number of beds in Government hospital will have been
increased by 81 per cent over the 1964 level. More rural health centres will
have been opened.
(xvi) Living Conditions – Considerable assistance will be given
to people building houses, and there will be an ambitious programme to provide
electricity and water to rural and low-income urban areas. Over £5 million will
have been spent on rural and urban water supplies, and clean water will have
been made available to several hundred thousand more people.
(xvii) Community Services – By 1971, every gombolola will have a
community centre constructed mainly through self-help. Each community centre
will have a radio and, where electricity is available, a television. The
community centres will be the focal point of all community services, including
the mammoth adult literacy campaign – the number of illiterates taught will be
increased to 200,000 a year, a major step towards the complete elimination of
adult illiteracy.
(xviii) Sports associations will be formed in each gombolola and
sports fields established and equipped. In addition to all this, it is planned
to set up a 100,000-book central library with branches in every district and
mobile libraries, to set up a rehabilitation centre for the disabled in every
district, and to erect new orphanages.
(xix) Employment – 100,000 additional jobs will be provided, a 35
per cent increase over the present level. As some people will be retiring or
leaving the country, 150,000 new people will be employed during the Plan
period. The Government will ensure that, without unduly compromising
efficiency, Ugandans will have first claim on these new posts.
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