Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority

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Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority
URBRA
Agency overview
Formed 2012
Jurisdiction Government of Uganda
Headquarters 1 Clement Hill Road
Kampala, Uganda
Agency executives
Parent agency Uganda Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning
Website Homepage
Footnotes
15 Staff (2014)

The Uganda Retirement Benefits Regulatory Authority (URBRA) is a government-owned, semi-autonomous agency responsible for the regulation, licensing, supervision, and control of the retirement sector in Uganda, the third-largest economy in the East African Community. The authority is also responsible for the formulation of guidelines to allow the liberalization of the retirement sector in the country.[2][3]

Location

The headquarters of URBRA are located at 3rd to 6th Floor, URBRA Towers, 1 Clement Hill Road, on Nakasero Hill, in Kampala, the capital and largest city of Uganda. The coordinates of the headquarters are 0°19'16.0"N, 32°35'12.0"E (Latitude:0.321111; Longitude:32.586667).[4]

History

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. URBRA was established by an Act of Parliament of Uganda in 2011. The agency is under the Uganda Ministry of Finance and Economic Development but is semi-autonomous, with a governing board and a management team, led by an executive director as the chief executive officer.

Before 2012, there were only two major retirement benefits plans in the country: the Public Employees Retirement Plan (for some civil servants) and the National Social Security Fund (Uganda) (for privately employed people whose employers had at least five employees on payroll).

When URBRA was established, it was anticipated that new retirement benefits managers would be licensed and the sector would be liberalized and improved, with more choices and new retirement products introduced.[5][3]

See also

References

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