Engendering NES Project
The process of integrating gender into the NES was launched in May 2008 by Hon. Janat Mukwaya, Minister of Tourism Trade & Industry. It has since taken a multi-stakeholder consultation to enlist inputs from the public, private, civil society actors and academia as well as development partners. Uganda Export Promotion Board being the lead institution in export development led the process and worked closely with other national stakeholders and gender sensitive trade and business support networks.

Market-Linked Project
Traidlinks is a not for profit organization which works to engage the Irish Private Sector in promoting enterprise to diminish poverty in the developing countries. Traidlinks supports African companies to overcome the many obstacles to growth by providing specialist technical skills and business development expertise, identifying and providing routes to local, regional and international markets, and focusing on the sustainable transfer of skills and knowledge to provide practical support.

Private Sector Trade and Business Information System
Being the institution whose key role, among others is to provide market and trade related information service, UEPB was contracted under the recently launched Trade Capacity Enhancement Project (TRACE) to under the Ministry of Trade, Tourism and Industry (MTTI), to implement a "Private Sector Trade and Business Information System (PSTBIS). The system is intended to address the gap of trade and business information by strengthening and deepening information networks and linkages with Private Sector Associations and Private Enterprises as defined in the National Export Strategy.

Regional Export Information Points
The REIPs are part of the responses highlighted in the National Export Strategy (NES) a medium term planning framework launched in 2007 by H.E. the President of Uganda, to give direction to the export development drive.

These REIPs are specialized units housed within private sector entities and designed to promote wider export information dissemination by fostering efforts made in may sectors to stimulate trade competitiveness and trade efficiency of Uganda's SMEs.

The REIPs will be supported by UEPB, which will also provide the trade information for the actors in the export value chain at regional/district level through these set centers thus facilitating strategic business decision making and efficient service delivery.

In the first phase, four partner Private Sector establishment have been selected namely;

• Eastern Region:Eastern Region Private Sector Development Centre (EPSDEC) - Mbale
• South & Western Region:Ankole Private Sector Promotion Centre (APROCEL) - Bushenyi
• Northern Region:Acholi Private Sector Development Promotion Centre - Gulu
• West-Nile Region:West Nile Private Sector Development Promotion Centre - Arua