06 budget for the financial year 2021/22. In order to fast-track oil and gas extraction, government has embarked on a number of projects such as the construction of an oil pipeline as mentioned earlier. The IMF also noted that growth over the medium term would be driven by investments in the oil sector and the start of its production in FY 2024/25. It highlighted further that the country’s public debt sustainability was hinged on oil exports and proper management of oil revenues. The reform conditionalities imposed on government within these loan programs which range from fiscal consolidation to deregulation and privatization have limited governments’ ability to drive out inequality and leaves women as the most negatively impacted. Placing oil and gas extraction at the centre of economic development gives little consideration to the impacts of these capitalist and extractivist projects on the livelihoods of communities residing in areas close to these projects. Many of the communities inhabiting the regions where these projects are implemented have lost their agricultural land to the state and multinational corporations engaged in the extraction . This has been accompanied by other after-effects such as the pollution of water sources in these areas among others. What is worse is that women 18 stand to be the most affected by these outcomes given the gender roles assigned to them as the primary providers of food and other vital resources such as water for domestic use. Furthermore, self-reporting and selfpolicing by private sector clients, has not proved to protect people and their rights and has further increased neglect of environmental risks. The East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) that is intended to transport crude oil from Uganda’s oil fields to the Port of Tanga, Tanzania on the Indian Ocean will need more than 5,300 hectares of land. An estimated 14,000 households across Uganda and Tanzania have lost or will lose land as a result of the pipeline; hundreds of families will need to be resettled. Thousands more will be affected by the associated oil development projects. Women will be the most negatively impacted, and yet they currently own the smallest proportion of all agricultural land and remain deprived of their rights to land. An open letter signed by 263 organizations from 49 countries called on banks to refuse to finance the oil pipeline. Between 2018 and 2019, multinational oil company Total placed cut-off dates for compensation on the properties of over 5,000 households in Uganda whose land is being acquired to establish the Research on the Influence of International Financial Institutions on Uganda’s COVID – 19 Recovery Agenda