Tag Archives: NGOs

  Nairobi, Kenya | THE INDEPENDENT |  – Human Rights Watch has criticized Uganda police for what they describe as failure to bring to book any suspects in the recent break-ins targeting Rights Groups offices in Kampala. In the latest incident,  Ugandan rights organization Human Rights Awareness and Promotion Forum (HRAPF) was …

Women’s NGOs are changing the world…. But research shows they are easily marginalised and trivialised once projects take off NEWS ANALYSIS | Bipasha Baruah & Kate Grantham | In contemporary global development circles, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are now performing many more roles and activities than they did a few decades ago. NGOs …

  A rights activist view on the tension between the government and NGOs Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | The government’s renewed determination to tightly monitor Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) in Uganda is meant to stifle other than enable civil society organisations do their work. The NGO Act passed in 2016 just …

How foreign interests have captured Uganda’s politics thereby turning our people from citizens to clients THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | Police recently raided the offices of some Non-government Organisations (NGOs) including Action Aid Uganda and Great Lakes Institute for Strategic Studies (GLISS) and froze their accounts. The government …

Tripoli, Libya | AFP | Libya’s navy warned it will seize activists’ boats on migrant rescue missions that enter its waters unauthorised, after a run-in Wednesday with a German vessel during which a warning shot was fired. “This time we avoided an escalation. In future, we will seize the boats of …

COMMENT: By Milly Kyolaba One of the biggest challenges Non Profit Organisations (NGOs) and development agencies operating in countries like Uganda face is getting the balance right between managing their budgets administrative and overhead costs versus the amount of money they actually use to support the intended beneficiaries. Critics often …

Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have challenged Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) to be fair, clear and transparent to encourage everyone to pay taxes. “It is our responsibility to pay taxes and as citizens we have an obligation of questioning how our money is used.  If we have a clear system, then …

Biguli Sub County gets three piped water supply systems Settling for unclean and unsafe water will soon be a thing of the past in Biguli sub county, Kamwenge District in western Uganda.  This follows the construction of three piped water supply and sanitation systems by Water For People in conjunction …

By Stephen Kafeero Rev. Fr. Simon Lokodo, the Minister of State in charge of the Directorate of Ethics and Integrity, spoke to The Independent’s Stephen Kafeero. Who decides the meaning of ethics and integrity in this country? We have our cultural codes of conduct and the absolute and supreme law …

By Ronald Musoke President Museveni may have talked tough accusing some MPs and civil society organizations of selling out to  ‘foreign interests’ but the latter have come out to respond, saying they are determined to fight on, to ensure that all Ugandans benefit from the oil resources. While appearing before …