UBFC Contracted by JWHC Group Completed smoothly

Author: Zhang shiwei release time: 2022-06-05 browsing number: 0

Tuesday,May 31,2022 Kampala Uganda  The Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury, Ramathan Ggoobi, has described the Competitiveness and Enterprise Development Project (CEDP) as a successful project despite the outbreak of COVID-19 that affected several undertakings.

"It has been rated as satisfactory in its performance. It is one the few projects that have performed quite well relative to so many other projects under similar circumstances,"Ggoobi said.The Uganda Business Facilitation Centre(UBFC) , contracted by JWHC Group,the pilot facility of CEDP project, is nearly complete and ready for occupation.

Ggoobi said: " The completion of the project geared towards a better investment climate with the aim of improving the competitiveness of enterprises in Uganda.This has been achieved through different interventions like installation of an electronic document management system (EDMS) . The system digitised all the current and new organisation documentswhich can now be accessed online , reducing the number of days it would take for someone to register a business to less than a day from as high as more than a month.

Located in Kololo Kampala, capital of Uganda, the Uganda Business Facilitation Center is home to UIA,URSB and CMA.The project is financed by the World Bank with a total investment of $12.65 million.Covering an area of about 2,410 sqmt, with a construction area of about 20,776 sqmt, it was divided into four-storey underground parking lot (Depth:13.5m) and 12-storey above-ground buildings (Height: 49.8m).