Nakawa Vocational Training Institute (NVTI), is a public vocational training institute operated and administered by the Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES).

It is off of the Kampala-Jinja Road, approximately 5.5 kilometres (3 mi), east of the central business district of the city.

The institute's primary objective is the provision of "vocational training skills to school leavers and apprentices in enterprises and to upgrade and assess competencies of industrial workers".

[1] Beginning in 2007, a program for the training of vocational skills instructors was established.

The institute's courses have attracted participants from Uganda and the neighboring countries, including Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and Eritrea.