Abstract:"The Government of the Republic of Uganda (GoU) designed the national planning framework 'Vision 2040', aiming at transforming the Ugandan society from a low-income to a modern and prosperous upper middle-income country with an average per capita income of USD9,500 within 30 years. The GoU has been implementing phase one of the Expanding Social Protection (ESP) Programme since 2010. The overall objective of the ESP is to create a national social protection system that benefits the poorest, as a core element of the country's national planning and budgeting process". (...)