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Speaker @ObothOboth said a ten-month gap between project approval and agreement signing could create suspicion that people were negotiating deals, even when nothing improper was happening.

Speaking during a meeting with the World Bank on 5 November 2026, Oboth called for faster procurement and greater transparency through electronic procurement.

“You know, you would be suspicious, even when there’s nothing.”

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Procurement for World Bank projects takes 539 business days in Uganda, against a regional average of 251, the Bank’s Country Manager, Dr. Francisca Ayodeji Akala, told Speaker Jacob Marksons Oboth.

That is more than twice as long.

During their meeting on 5 November 2026, Akala said both Uganda’s implementing agencies and the World Bank had processes they needed to improve to speed up delivery.

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US$3.14bn of the US$4.62bn approved for 18 World Bank projects in Uganda had not yet been disbursed, according to the Bank’s Country Manager, Dr. Francisca Ayodeji Akala.

Only US$1.48bn had been paid out, leaving approximately 68% of the approved funding undisbursed.

Meeting Speaker @ObothOboth on 5 November 2026, Akala said Uganda could move much faster in using the available financing.

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Uganda takes five years to disburse just a quarter of the funding for a project designed to end in five years, World Bank officials told Speaker @ObothOboth

The team raised the delay during a meeting at @Parliament_Ug on 5 November 2026, explaining how approved financing was taking too long to translate into services for Ugandans.

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🇺🇬 Nearly three years after the Samoa Agreement was signed, only 15 of 79 African, Caribbean and Pacific member states and 15 of 27 EU member states have notified ratification, according to the EU Council’s treaty register. Uganda is among them.

Deputy Speaker @Thomas_Tayebwa (Ruhinda North County) raised the slow pace at the OACPS Parliamentary Assembly in Brussels on Sunday. The agreement, which governs the bloc’s partnership with the EU, has applied provisionally since January 2024.

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