Economic Activities
Many women in the town engage in such activities as hair care, road-side groceries, market vending, restaurants, and health care clinics. Men are mainly engaged in wholesale and retail merchandising, taxi driving and boda boda (motorcycle and bicycle) for-hire transportation. Increasingly, residents of Kira Town are employed in salaried and non-salaried positions in the city of Kampala and return to Kira in the evenings to sleep. Kampala Industrial and Business Park (KIBP), a 894 hectares (2,200 acres) business development park developed by the Uganda Investment Authority at a cost of US$43 million, is located at Namanve, in Bweyogerere Ward in extreme southeastern Kira Town.
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