The objective of the strategy was to propose rational and implementable approaches to manage the biomass energy sector in Uganda.

Some of the revealed problems with the biomass energy sector include:

- Scanty and inadequate data with no clearly defined data collection, archiving and updating mechanisms;

- Facts about biomass energy and its contribution to Uganda’s social, economic and industrial growth are not well known;

- There are several renewable energy awareness campaigns but some segments of the audience e.g. key government agencies, policy makers, legislature are not well targeted;

- Key responsible government agencies are not well coordinated and have thus failed to put in place a comprehensive regulatory mechanism;

- Highly inefficient technologies are common at various levels of the biomass value chain i.e., harvesting, transformation into secondary energy (mainly charcoal), transportation and at end-use

- Unsustainable use of tree biomass - 44 million tonnes per year (2013), of which sustainably supply at 26 million tonnes;

- Uganda could sustainably harvest over 45 million tonnes of biomass by including bushes, shrubs and a small portion of vegetal waste in its biomass energy mix. Supply would even be much higher if all other available forms of biomass potential were explored.

The proposed strategies grouped into 4 categories: Policy and regulatory issues; Supply management interventions; Demand management interventions; Cross cutting issues. The proposed innovative financing to support the strategy was $107 million.