There are activities which shall be prohibited and are as listed herein. Firms engaging in prohibited activities will not be allowed to benefit from INVITE project. By signing up for the Web Portal/ Website, you inform the INVITE project team that you do not engage in any prohibited activities. Engaging in these activities will result in exclusion from the project, and rejection of any application.

The prohibited activities are:

1. Production or trade in any product or activity deemed illegal under laws or regulations of Uganda or international conventions and agreements.
2. High risk category activities in accordance with the Government of Uganda regulations.
3. Production or trade in weapons or ammunitions.
4. Gambling, casinos and equivalent enterprises.
5. Production or trade in alcoholic beverages (excluding beer and wine).
6. Activities targeting tobacco manufacturing, processing, or specialist tobacco distribution, and activities facilitating the use of tobacco.
7. Trade in wildlife or wildlife products regulated under Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).
8. Production or trade in radioactive materials. This does not apply to the purchase of medical equipment, quality control (measurement) equipment and any equipment where DBE considers the radioactive source to be trivial and/or adequately shielded.
9. Production or trade in or use of unbounded asbestos fibers.
10. Any activities involving significant degradation or conversion of natural and/or critical habitats and/or any activities in legally protected areas.
11. Activities damaging to national monuments activities that are located in or impacting on areas with physical cultural property attributes.
12. Unsustainable fishing practices such as electric shocks or explosive materials.
13. Production or trade in wood or other forestry products other than from sustainably managed forests.
14. Production or trade in pharmaceuticals, pesticides/herbicides, ozone depleting substances, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) subject to international phase outs or bans.
15. Production or activities involving harmful or exploitative forms of forced labor or harmful child labor.
16. Production, trade, storage, or transport of significant volumes of hazardous chemicals, or commercial scale usage of hazardous chemicals (such as; gasoline, kerosene, other petroleum products, textile dyes etc).
17. Activities involving land acquisition and/or restrictions on land use resulting in involuntary resettlement or economic displacement.