Mutukula regional market aims at introducing a unique and multi-specialty market, one of its kind in the East African region. The market will enhance regional cooperation, with the facilities being shared among all the traders, investors and manufacturers in the Eastern African region. It is designed to create an enabling environment for increased trade flow among partner states of the East African Community.

With its location at the heart of East Africa, it is positioned at the intersection of the major trade routes in the region and thus able to act as a central point for intra-Eastern Africa trade. The regional market aims at connecting and uniting vendors in Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Somalia, Southern Sudan and Western part of Democratic Republic of Congo. At completion of facilities, the market shall become an import and export center for all forms of merchandise, both agricultural and manufactured products, enhancing value addition and thus opening the regional products to Western markets and other parts of Africa, working with already existing regional bodies such as SADAC, COMESA, AFTCA, EAC and well established foreign markets from the United States of America, China, UAE, United Kingdom and the rest of the world to build its capacity