The Trade, Industry and Investment Department is headed by the City Commercial Officer and is responsible forthe implementation of policies and strategy to promote trade, industry, tourism, wildlife and cooperatives services in the city. 

The department of Trade, Industry and Local Economic Development was created out of Production and Marketing Management. It became effective in April, 2019. The main focus of the department is to build capacity of the business community through inculcating the business community with The City Economic Planner, Mr Wotsomu John Moses 31 entrepreneurship skills, especially the youth. It is one of the centres for Private
sector driven growth and employment creation.  

Local Communities are organized to form and operate Savings and Credit Cooperative Societies. It is the government strategy to transform 68% of the homesteads from subsistence to market oriented farming with the overall objective of promoting job creation and improving household incomes.

Key Functions

• Implement Private Public Partnership and manage Private Public Partnership relations;
• Mobilize, sensitize and educate farmers on commercialization of agriculture and value addition;
• Develop cooperatives and offer other trade development services; 
• Promote, develop and preserve tourism attraction sites and activities in the city;
• License trade including produce buying;
• Promote wildlife conservation;
• Promote organization and formation of cooperatives; 
• Promote and ensure a conducive investment environment;
• Interpret, implement and enforce policies, laws and regulations on tourism, trade, industry, marketing, wildlife and cooperatives;
• Generate data and statistics for planning in the department;
• Determine quality standards and brand agricultural produce with the guidance of Uganda National Bureau of Standards;
• Promote and carry out commercial services capacity building programmes to empower City officials and service providers; 
• Promote and mainstream PPP in the operations of City;  and
• Liaise with Central government and other stakeholders on investment promotion.