The legal status of the Buganda Kingdom is provided for in the 1995 Uganda Constitution under Chapter 16; articles 246 (1) and 246 (3).

The Kingdom of Buganda as a cultural institution registered the Buganda Development Agency to enhance development and service delivery in the region.

BDA was registered as a Company Limited by guarantee with the Registrar of Companies on 13th February 2003.

Buganda Development Agency (BDA), as the legally registered technical arm of the Buganda Kingdom, is responsible for coordination and  support of all Kingdom undertakings including Ministries and NGOs to ensure the effective and efficient implementation of the Kingdom 10 year Buganda Development Strategy (BKDS), which was launched by Sabasajja Kabaka in 2001.

The major objective of the BKDS is to enhance the standards of living of the people of Buganda and Uganda as a whole.

Although BDA is supposed to be a body cooperate, and self-sustaining and independent body, for this reporting period (2006 June 2007), BDA was still housed and supported under the Ministry of Planning, Economic Development and Investments.

We hope that in the consecutive following years, BDA will be able to become a self-sustaining corporate body, and able to fulfil its functions and responsibilities.

I wish to thank all those who have supported Buganda development Agency in any way.

This includes our development partners, more specifically, the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) with whom BDA together with the Kingdom Ministry of Agriculture Animal Industry, fisheries and environment have successfully implemented the Environmental Management and Capacity Building project (EMCBP II), in the districts of Kampala, Mukono and Kalangala; Chara Trust UK, who provided water tanks to communities  in the peri urban areas of Kasubi, and Abaagala Uganda UK who supported Bbowa Vocational and Senior Secondary School. We hope that these relationships will continue.

We also call upon other partners who wish to promote development in our communities to join us in the struggle to fight poverty, ignorance and other community ills which prevail among our people