Advocacy initiatives and policy reforms in extractive governance in Uganda

This report highlights the policy and advocacy hits and misses in Uganda’s oil, gas and mining (extractive) sector. The primary sources of information are documentary: reports by local and international civil society organisations (CSOs), journals, published research documents, media articles, academic documents. Secondary sources include interviews with media trainers, CSO actors, government officials, private sector […]

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Funding Uganda National Oil Company

This explainer is part of ACME’s continuous efforts to provide journalists, media professionals, and stakeholders with valuable information aimed at improving reporting and investigation within Uganda’s extractive industries. Highlights In December 2021, Parliament passed The Public Finance Management (Amendment) Act, a law that governs how public money and resources are mobilised or collected, stored, dispensed […]

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Conditional award of contracts in Uganda oil industry: Here’s what journalists should look out for

How ready are the local entities in meeting the standards of the oil industry? How are foreign companies, with their financial muscle, likely to exploit loopholes to win most of the tenders? What is the Petroleum Authority of Uganda doing to stop the leakage? How is Uganda going to finance its shareholding when the country […]

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