01 Executive Summary The spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with the climate and worsening debt crises have had far reaching implications on the livelihoods of many Ugandans. As the pandemic claimed many lives across the country, the Ugandan Government instituted several lockdown measures to slow down its spread. This greatly affected economic activity, revenue generation and consequently the Government’s capacity to fund an adequate response to the pandemic. The Government therefore opted for more funding from International Financial Institutions (IFIs) including the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank to beef up her fiscal and monetary response to the crisis. Government secured loans to a tune of $300 million and $491.5 million in 2020 from the World Bank and IMF respectively. Government further sought another $1 billion loan from IMF in 2021. However, such funding came with conditions that government adopt new policy and institutional reforms recommended by these institutions. The purpose of this research paper was to explore and draw conclusions about the influencing role of International Financial Institutions (IFIs) on the COVID recovery agenda in Uganda. The research investigated the IFIs’ support to COVID relief and reconstruction, 4 exploring in particular their focus, areas of investment, objectives, conditionalities and overall perspectives on the ‘development agenda’ from an ecofeminist perspective. The research study relied on desk-based research to collect secondary data. Several documents and data sources were reviewed including the current and previous national budgets; various news reports and studies; the National Development Plan and Economic Program documents agreed on with World Bank and IMF. At the community level, the research team visited the Bunyoro region in western Uganda to interview key informants from three communities around oil exploration and extraction projects. Findings from the research revealed that the COVID-19 pandemic posed serious challenges for the Uganda economy and the Ugandan people, pushing between 1.1 to 3.2 million Ugandan’s into poverty with women suffering a larger share of poverty. To make matters worse, government’s response remained inadequate, failing to address the needs of the informal sector and the most vulnerable. The loan funds secured from the IMF and World Bank, came with greater conditions and increased the influence of these IFIs over government’s Research on the Influence of International Financial Institutions on Uganda’s COVID – 19 Recovery Agenda