The goal of this exercise is to identify the obstacles and opportunities that EU firms face in Uganda to provide the EU with necessary information for their interactions with the Government to improve the business climate. All replies are confidential and will only be analyzed by the EU Commission under the Trade and Private Sector Development Facility.
We are committed to protect your data and to respect your privacy. The Trade and Private Sector Facility collects and processes these replies pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2018/1725 of the EU Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2018 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by the Union institutions, bodies, offices and agencies and on the free movement of such data (repealing Regulation (EC) No 45/2001).Therefore we ensure that all responses are kept confidential. Data will only be presented in aggregated form (i.e. all data compiled) and firms cannot be identified. 

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1. Introduction

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2. Relation with Europe. This exercise applies to the 27 members of the European Union

  Yes / No If yes, which country?
My firm has European stakeholders
My firm has European capital
My firm is registered in Europe
My firm's headquarters are in Europe
My firm's CEO/top manager in Uganda is European
Europe is my main market

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3. Main sector of activity

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4. How do you describe your economic impact / potential investment in Uganda?

  before the COVID-19 crisis after the COVID-19 crisis
Overall annual turnover (in EUR)
Number of direct employees in Uganda
Estimated number of local employees (Ugandans)
Estimated number of women employees
Estimated number of indirect employees & suppliers in Uganda
Average taxes payed in Uganda per year - all taxes included (VAT and customs duties)
Average amount of investment already placed in Uganda
Estimated amount of  the forecasted investment in Uganda in the next 10 years

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5. What effects do you expect or do you already have from the coronavirus crisis?

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6. What it is your relation to trade?

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7. What took you to Uganda?

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8. How important is the Ugandan market for your company?

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9. How important is the regional market (EAC) for your company?

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10. In the next 5-10 years, how do you perceive the Ugandan market for your company? Please refer to numbers preceding the COVID-19 crisis, e.g. 1 February 2020.

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11. In terms of access to finance (both working capital and capital investments) what are your two main sources of capital?

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12. How do you describe your social impact in Uganda?

  How many actions do you organise per year? How much do you spend on this per year?
Carbon footprint reduction actions (e.g. renewables energy consumption, alternative to transportation, etc)
Environment & biodiversity actions (e.g. recycling, plant trees, organic production/consumption, etc)
Labor policies (minimum wage, equal wages, positive discrimination to women/local staff, etc)
Fair trade actions (profits equally distributed, development-specifi fund for workers, health insurance, etc)
Training actions (e.g. internship programme, links with Universities, etc)
R&D actions (e.g. transfer of technology, research)

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13. Please state the barriers you face when doing business / investing in Uganda and their impact in your firm.

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14. How do these factors impact your business? Please rank them from high-impact (1) to low impact (13).

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15. What are the concrete actions that the EU could do to resolve these issues?

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Your input will help to  better tailor the EU-AU public-private dialogue to improve the business environment in Uganda.
For further information on this survey, please contact the EU Delegation to Uganda at Delegation-Uganda@eeas.europa.eu

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