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ACCU, PTF launch Uganda Country Strategy
The Partnership for Transparency (PTF) and the Anti Corruption Coalition for Uganda (ACCU) have begun to implement a country-wide strategy to further their shared anti-corruption aims, focused on Uganda. This marks the first strategy of its kind in PTF’s history. The five-year strategy, approved in early 2021, takes a sweeping view of key sectors in […]
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ACCU trains community monitors in advocacy, communications
The Anti Corruption Coalition Uganda with support from Irish Aid under the Strengthening Karamoja Anti Corruption Coalition (SKACC) project conducted a monitoring visit that was held in Moroto district, but attended by participants from Nabilatuk, Nakapiripirit, Napak, Moroto and Kotido. A refresher training for the members of civil society in the accountability sector on communication […]
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ACCU receives grant to monitor Covid-19 vaccine transparency
The Anti Corruption Coalition Uganda with financial support from the Partnership for Transparency Fund (PTF) has embarked on a project to monitor transparency in the rollout of Covid-19 vaccines in the sub-hospitals in Kasangati and Kira, both in Wakiso district. The project dubbed the Uganda Vaccines Monitoring and Transparency Project is one of four such […]
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Bravo on securing Covid-19 vaccines, but…
On March 2, 2021, the Minister of Health shared a statement with the media and the general public announcing a number of activities around the mass immunization of Ugandans and foreigners aged 18 years and above against the deadly Covid-19 disease. We applaud the Government of Uganda upon this achievement and we are proud of […]
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Community monitors change face of service delivery in Karamoja
The advent of the community-based monitoring model into Karamoja has ushered in much-desired changes, accountability and transparency in the way local governments deliver services in the Karamoja sub-region. A number of schools have been built, boreholes drilled, cattle slaughter sheds constructed and roads maintained. This was never the case. The relationship between community-based monitors and […]
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Act decisively against errant accounting officers
The recently released Auditor General’s Report to Parliament for the Financial Year 2019/20 indicated that the majority of the in-kind donations given towards the fight against Covid-19 in Uganda were treated as a private donation and were not declared by those tasked with the collection and disbursement of these donations. The Report also states that […]
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Teacher absenteeism slowly eating away at Karamoja
Anti Corruption Coalition Uganda recently released findings from a study conducted over a duration of three years into the status of education in Karamoja. The study found that the levels of teacher absenteeism were of untold proportions. ACCU’s findings tallied with what the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) obtained in December of 2017 showing that […]
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Uganda slips up in recent corruption perceptions rankings
The 2020 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) released In January by Transparency International revealed that persistent corruption was undermining health care systems and contributing to democratic backsliding amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Uganda, which had made some gains in the 2019 report, to position 137 out of 180 countries sampled slipped up to position 142 out of […]
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China cracks fake COVID-19 vaccine ring
Chinese police arrested more than 80 people and confiscated over 3,000 fake doses of COVID-19 vaccine as part of a campaign to combat vaccine-related crimes, state news agency Xinhua reported. The suspects had been carrying out the ruse since at least September last year, Xinhua said on Monday, adding that all fake doses had been […]
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Oh! What a year
The year is coming to a close and we at the Anti Corruption Coalition Uganda are pleased that you have walked this far with us. Thus far, it has been a beautiful walk, a fruitful one, if we may add. It has also been wrought with challenges, but those are what have defined us this […]
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