The Ugandan Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) was established 12 years ago by the Budget Act and was mandated to provide Parliament and its committees with objective, timely and independent economic and financial analysis of the economy and the national budget in order to enhance Parliament's budget oversight role. The PBO is staffed with 23 officials who have expertise in the finance field (economists, accountants, and statisticians) and its functions are structured according to Macroeconomics, Sectoral and Fiscal Analysis, and a Financial Programming section. It was observed that the PBO supports all parliamentary committees by deploying a PBO official to each committee however some PBO officials serve more than one committee.