02 Introduction The purpose of this research paper is to explore and draw conclusions about the influencing role of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) on the COVID-19 recovery agenda in Uganda. The research investigates the IFIs’ support to COVID-19 relief and reconstruction, exploring in particular their focus, areas of investment, objectives, conditionalities and overall perspectives on the ‘development agenda’ from an ecofeminist perspective. In terms of scope, the research focuses primarily on the IMF and World Bank, even though Uganda receives funding from other IFIs including the African Development Bank. The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the climate and worsening debt crises have had far reaching implications for the Ugandan economy. In early 2020, at a time when Ugandans were struggling with a locust invasion and flooding due to heavy rains, the COVID-19 pandemic struck and claimed the lives of many individuals. To protect lives within the country, government instituted a number of restrictions aimed to curb the spread of the deadly pandemic. These included school closures, restrictions on public transport, closure of non-essential businesses among others. However, these measures had far reaching implications on poor people especially 6 those in rural and slum areas and those working within the informal sector. Many lost their sources of income and means of survival. Many households remained without access to basic services such as water and electricity, and many lacked access to basic needs of food and medication. Women were the most adversely affected as they represent the largest proportion of the poor within the country. To relieve this dire situation, government sought loans from International Financial Institutions including the IMF and World Bank. Loans to a tune of $300 million and $491.5 million were acquired in 2020 from the World Bank and IMF respectively. The government further sought another $1 billion loan from IMF in 2021. These loans aimed to support efforts to prevent, contain and manage the pandemic and lessen its impacts on people’s livelihoods and incomes. However, the IMF and World Bank provided these loans on condition that government put in place new policy and institutional reforms, and these reforms have the effect of limiting the government’s ability to address poverty and drive out inequality. The paper begins with a national analysis of the COVID impacts. It then analyses the overall direction of government’s response and the COVID projects funded by the IFIs. Finally it Research on the Influence of International Financial Institutions on Uganda’s COVID – 19 Recovery Agenda