TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL - ANNUAL REPORT 2018

TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF ACRONYMS

LIST OF ACRONYMS 1 A4T Action for Transparency MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRPERSON 2 AFIC Africa Freedom of Information Center CAO Chief Administrative Officer MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE 3 DIRECTOR CIPESA The Collaboration on International ICT Policy for East and Southern Africa ABOUT US 4 CPI Corruption Perception Index TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL CSOs Civil Society Organizations 5 UGANDA INTERVENTIONS DCDO District Community Development Officer CIVIC ENGAGEMENT 5 DEC District Executive Committee RESEARCH 10 DEO District Education Officer COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT AND 11 DHI District Health Inspector CAPACITY BUILDING MOU Memorandum of Understanding REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL 15 OC4H Open Contracting for Health ENGAGEMENTS PPDA Public Procurement and Disposal of MEDIA OUTREACHES 16 Public Assets RDC Resident District Commissioner HUMAN RESOURCE REPORT 19 RTI Research Triangle Institute ORGANISATION STAFF 20 TIU Transparency International Uganda SOME COMMUNITY CASES HANDLED 22 TWG Technical Working groups FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE URA Uganda Revenue Authority. 23 YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018 VAC Voluntary Accountability Committees VBC Village Budget Club

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Message from the Chairperson

t is a great pleasure to endorse another year of great strides by Transparency International Uganda as indicated in this report. II would like to extend my appreciation, gratitude and respect to my fellow board members for their dedicated service to Transparency International Uganda whose leadership is fundamental to the success of the organization. A s TIU, we present the key milestones registered in our work of seeking to promote consciousness about corruption and a society that espouses value systems and principles of accountability. We endeavor to enhance transparency and accountability in the public and private sectors as a whole in order to build a fair and transparent society. I am delighted to say we are blessed with generous and encouraging Development partners who have made it possible for TIU to deliver her services through financial support, commitment and dedication in supporting the implementation of activities for the various project throughout this time. We are highly indebted for the confidence and trust rendered. I also take the opportunity to commend government leaders both at the national and local levels who have I am grateful to always received us with open hands and have been ready members across and willing to partner with us. And with this partnership, we the country that have registered positive change. have collaborated with TIU to deliver I am grateful to members across the country that have our 2018 goals of collaborated with TIU to deliver our 2018 goals of seeking seeking to promote to promote consciousness about corruption and a consciousness society that espouses value systems and principles of about corruption accountability. and a society It can never be possible to realize change without the that espouses support of others. As a lead Anti-corruption organization, value systems we deliberately initiated and joined different networks and and principles of coalitions. accountability. Lastly I wish to extend my appreciation to my fellow board members for their oversight support and the staff for the exceptional commitment. As TIU we continue counting on your support to deliver a Uganda in which the daily lives of people are free of corruption.

JOHN MARY ODOY

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Message from the Executive Director

I welcome you to the TIU 2018 report. In this year a lot was achieved and this is highly attributed to the growing TIU ability as an organization to promote consciousness about corruption and effects in a society espousing value systems and principles of transparency and accountability. The achievements we share with you in this report could not have been achieved without the resounding support of the members we worked with in 2018. TIU was able to implement major planned activities during this year because of the financial and technical support from our development partners including USAID/RTI, UK, CIPESA/SIDA, AFIC/WB, TIS, TI-UK, , GIZ and TI- Rwanda. The supportive and committed board members and the competent and dedicated TIU staff have been very instrumental in ensuring that the mandate for the organization is fulfilled. Your excellent contribution towards attainment of the organizations goal cannot go unnoticed. In pursuit of our mission, TIU through partnership and networking brought on board a new project, “Open Contracting for Health”(OC4H) which is being implemented in the districts of Lira, Soroti, Masaka, Mubende and Buliisa. These, together with the running projects have increased TIUs visibility at both local and national level In this year a lot TIU is cognizant of the fact that capacity building plays a was achieved significant role in strengthening the skills, competences and this is highly and abilities of the people and communities in fighting attributed to the corruption in Uganda. Thus, TIU has been able to offer growing TIU ability capacity building to a number of stakeholders on issues as an organization specifically relating to transparency and accountability. to promote Some accountability agencies that TIU works with include consciousness among others; the Uganda Police Force, Directorate of about corruption Ethics And Integrity, Inspectorate of Government, Office of and effects in a the Auditor General, Public Procurement and Disposal of society espousing Public Assets, Directorate of Public Prosecutions as well as value systems the Uganda Revenue Authority. and principles of transparency and Appreciation also goes to the media for being key partner accountability. in the realization of our mandate through the cordial relationship that we have built with most of them. We remain indebted to each and every one who has played a role in ensuring that the daily lives of people are free of corruption.

PETER WANDERA

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ABOUT US

Vision Objectivity: TIU works to ensure that there is no A Uganda in which the daily lives of bias in its approach to its strategic interventions to ensure transparency and accountability in the people are free of corruption. public office and society in general. Building on its global experiences and practices, TIU’s approach Mission is both professional and meritorious. We adhere to best practices in the implementation of our To promote consciousness about programmes so that they are reflected in the corruption and its effects and a vision and mission of the organization. society that espouses value systems Fairness: Fairness is a hallmark of an impact and principles of transparency and oriented organization such as TIU. Our accountability. approach to programming is to ensure that marginalized and voiceless people are included in the programme activities by giving them an Goal opportunity to express themselves on issues that The overall goal is to empower people affect them and to facilitate them to participate to demand for transparency and to influence decisions at all governance levels. accountability. Justice: Access to justice for poor and marginalized people is of paramount importance to the realization of citizen rights. A sense of Fundamental Values and Principles justice where equality and fairness are promoted Transparency International Uganda (TUI) marks the end of corruption and building of recognizes that the fight of corruption and national integrity model. promotion of good governance can be achieved Upright morals: Issues of morals are central in if its internal and external stakeholders cherish TIU in its quest for a society that that espouses good morals, values and norms in government, value systems and principles of transparency private sector and civil society. As such TIU is and accountability. TIU shall always ensure that built on the following principles and values; staff, management, board and members uphold Integrity: To advocate for integrity in public office upright morals at all times. and within the private service delivery sector for Non-Discrimination: Every citizen has an enhanced governance ethos and practices and equal chance of benefiting from policies and build citizen’s capacity to champion demand for programmes that are designed and implemented the implementation of national programs based at national and local level irrespective of their on nationally and internationally accepted best gender, religion, age, color, ethnicity, sexual practices. orientation etc. We adhere to social and Transparency: To advocate for open economic justice principles and rights based and transparent decision making, policy approaches principles in our programming and implementation and full participation of citizens in the implementation of activities. in issues and decisions that concern them.

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TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL CIVIC ENGAGEMENT UGANDA INTERVENTIONS Voluntary Accountability Committees/ TIU runs her interventions based on her strategic Paralegals at the fore front plan thematic areas of: TIU designed different interventions geared • Promoting transparency and accountability towards having citizens participate in promoting in service delivery Transparency and accountability at the different • Strengthening accountability in democratic levels in the country. To add on to the available processes number of local communities that actively participate in monitoring and demanding for • Promoting transparency and accountability improved service delivery, TIU conducted an in natural resource management exercise to identify, select, and train paralegals in • Strengthening institutional and Wakiso district (Busukuma Division and Wakiso organizational capacity of TIU and its Sub County). The major role of these paralegals partners. was to support communities in resolving land disputes at the community level with support While implementing the various activities under from the relevant stakeholders. These also the above thematic areas TIU mainly uses the held periodic review meetings to share their following approaches: experiences during the execution of their work. Research This was a platform for them to learn from each other. The researches help to get basic facts which are later used for activities such as advocacy, awareness creation, and capacity building Capacity Building Capacity building mainly in form of training is conducted at various levels, depending on the identified needs. Beneficiaries include among others; Community structures, local government authorities and private sector. Awareness Creation Several foras are used for awareness creation, to include among others Radios, community level Ms. Lilian Z. Senteza taking paralegals through the anti- corruption framework during the training of paralegals in meetings, district meetings, newspapers and Wakiso district online platforms such as social media. Stakeholders’ engagement These are mainly foras that TIU uses to enable the communities interface with the various duty bearers and provide opportunities for communities to get answers on social services delivery. It is also a fora that enables the district authorities to generate action points/plans to address any mentioned problems.

One of the paralegals sharing her experience during a reflection meeting at TIU office in

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Stakeholders Engagements: 20 community sensitization meetings were conducted with the aim of creating awareness on various issues ranging from land rights, the Access to information law, citizen’s role in contracts implementation as well as monitoring service delivery. These meetings provided a platform for citizens to interface with their leaders. For example, during the community dialogue in Mityana at Nambute Primary School, a community member presented on the construction project site at Nambute Primary Mr. Denis Obbo from Ministry of Lands listening to one of School which did not have a community project the participants during the open day in Mukono management committee which is essential during construction projects. Consequently, the Committee was constituted and is now operational. While at Watuba Primary School in Mityana, the community demanded explanation on why the construction of the school was delayed since they were informed that the project would last for a period of 9 months, which had elapsed and the construction was still ongoing. Several meetings were held between the district and the contractor which eventually improved the speed at which work was being done. A staff from PILAC recording offering legal aid to some of In Mukono (Kasawo & Nakifuma sub counties) the participants and Wakiso (Busukuma and Wakiso sub-counties, TIU in partnership with the 2 local governments, Ministry of Lands Housing and Urban Development Formation of community platforms (MLHUD) Buganda Land Board (BLB), Uganda • Land stakeholders’ forum Consortium on Corporate Accountability (UCCA) In order to curb cases of corruption in land and Network for Public Interest Lawyers (NETPIL), administration, TIU formed the Mukono and conducted 4 land rights open days as a platform Wakiso district Land Stakeholders Forum that for sensitizing communities on their land rights. met periodically to discuss land governance The open days were conducted to empower issues and jointly generate solutions. Participants communities to demand for transparency and during this forum ranged from representatives accountability in the land sector and also provide from civil society, private sector, media and a platform for local communities to dialogue district and national level government officials and hold the duty bearers accountable for the as well as religious leaders. delivery of land services. Several activities were undertaken including offering of free legal aid, • Land Corruption Risk mapping tool: verification of land titles using Land Information TI Uganda was one of the chapters in Africa after System, sensitization of communities on land and TI Kenya to pilot the tool. This was implemented corruption, land policies and laws, dissemination in Mityana and Mubende on Private Mailo Land of Information, Education and Communication and in Soroti on customary land. The importance Materials, talk shows among others. Issues of the tool is to; raised during the Land Rights open days ranged 1. provide information on corruption risks in from ‘busuulu’ / ground rent vs absentee land governance with the aim of developing Landlords, boundary demarcation, corruption in intervention and prevention strategies; land administration and limited capacity of Land Administrators.

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2. promote sustainable reforms in land governance through identification of Youth engagement loopholes for corruption in land governance In society, youth play a critical role in creating processes; change. As such, in TIU’s quest for improved 3. identify and promote best practices within transparency and accountability, the role of land governance processes; the youth cannot be underestimated. After the numerous engagements with the youth leaders 4. monitor, evaluate and assess projects in in Mukono district including a youth dialogue. land administration with the aim of reducing The meeting was aimed at getting feedback incidences of corruption. from the youth leaders on their engagement with • Procurement Toolhub the communities in the fight against corruption The Open Contracting for Health team in in the land sector. During the discussions, London developed a draft toolhub to provide the youth appreciated TIU for enabling them broad practical advice on implementing and broadly understand corruption in the land understanding open contracting at every stage sector and how they could be instrumental in of the procurement process – through step by curbing the vice. This information was helpful step guides and contextual information. This has to them as they created awareness among their and is still being tailored to the specific needs of constituents, supported community members to the procurement officials in Uganda. A validation resolve land issues by offering advice as well as meeting was thus organized to provide a referring them to relevant authorities. Among the platform for different stakeholders to discuss challenges they are still confronted with was; and appreciate the e-learning toolhub. A number • Increasing number of fraudulent land sales in of suggestions were made on how to improve the district with collusion by Local Councils, the toolkit. Although this is still work in progress, hence the need for more sensitization on it can be accessed on; www.oc4htoolkit.com. land rights

Mr. Tom Wright- Research and Advocacy Officer PHP, explaining to the participants how to use the toolkit

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• The money lenders who give people loans Chibita, Spokesperson of the Judiciary – Mr. with an aim of taking away their land at a give Solomon Muyita, Police Legal Officer - George a way price. William Ssentamu, Members of Parliament - • Limited knowledge among the young people Buliisa Stephen Birahwa Mukitale, among others. on land laws paving way for land grabbing by Key issues discussed ranged from increased the rich land grabbing in the country, the complicated • Lack of integrity among some leaders when legal process in dealing with land cases, handling land matters corruption and impunity among officers handling land matters, and sometimes lack of urgency. • Limited knowledge on drafting sales Easy access to land documents and ease of agreements during the land transactions e.g. duplication was another matter raised. The most of the agreements written lack date, storage of land information, including the white size of the land and the amount - making it certificates in the ministry, difficulty in accessing difficult to help when issues arise. land information for investigating officers, which delays prosecution and eventual resolution of a National Level Dialogues land conflict, weak laws that are sometimes not deterrent. Corruption and Land Injustices in Uganda Recommendations included the formation of a One dialogue was jointly organized with Civic joint committee/working group to handle matters Rights for Environment and Development (CRED) of land grabbing with representation from the to mainly seek joint solutions to the increasing CSOs, justice sector and Ministry of Lands; cases of criminal injustice in the country’s land training of officials handling land matters; more administration, which had seen under-privileged legal aid and pro-bono services from the NGOs land owners lose their land or suffering other and CSOs, including community engagements; kinds of criminal injustice. This brought on agencies should take strong action that is board members of the Justice, Law and Order deterrent against officers involved in corruption Sector (Directorate of Public Prosecutions, in land administration; sensitization of the public the Judiciary, the Police, Inspectorate of on how to use the existing structures to defend Government) and Ministry of Lands officials, themselves against land grabbers, as well as specifically the State Minister for Housing and develop their confidence in the systems; site Urban development - Hon Dr. Chris Baryomunsi, visits by judicial officers before judgements are Director of Public Prosecutions - Justice Mike

4th from the right- Minister for Lands, Housing and Urban Development, Hon. Chris Baryomunsi, 2nd Left - Director Public Prosecutions, Justice Chibita Mike, GIZ Representative on his left, and Chairperson TIU Board, Mr. Odoi, ED CRED on the extreme right, and some MPs during the launch of the land stakeholders guide handbook, at during the National Land stakeholders dialogue.

8 TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL UGANDA - ANNUAL REPORT 2018 made on matters concerning land grabbing, Anti-Corruption Dialogue computerization of the Ministry of Lands The TI Chairperson commented on the registers, tightening of land certificates security, importance of engaging multiple parties to making them difficult to be duplicated, and combat corruption and improving implementation training of the different officers and the public of laws as well as strengthening anti-corruption on security features of land titles to distinguish agencies with resources and further political between genuine and fake; prioritizing land independence. In her presentation, she noted that cases backlog in the judiciary to avoid the long globally, people are concerned that the figures in wait, in which matters are usually resolved when the CPI are still bad 25 years down the road. She it is too late. TIU hosted the Anti-Corruption Dialogue under the theme; “Citizens’ participation in the fight against corruption: A Sustainable Path to Uganda’s Transformation.” This was aimed at creating a platform to engage with different categories of people to discuss critical issues relating to Transparency and Accountability in Uganda. Participants came from Government, Civil Society, private sector, Media, cultural and religious leaders as well as community members. The president of Uganda H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, TI Chairperson Dr. Delia Ferreira were among the guests for the dialogue. H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni addressing the participants during the Anti-Corruption Dialogue at Imperial Royale Hotel

H.E shaking hands with Hon. Wafula Oguttu one of the TIU founder members while Hon. Augustine Ruzindana a TIU founder member (extreme right), Peter kiwumulo on the left hand side of Hon Wafula and Hannah Owot on the left hand side of the president look on.

9 TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL UGANDA - ANNUAL REPORT 2018 therefore emphasized the need for; Social reaction where society stops voting for the corrupt leaders. • Fighting for more integrity in all sectors of the economy, defend Democratic values, space for civic engagement, condemn the mistreatment of anti-corruption activists and have joint efforts to fight corruption. In his remarks, President Museveni who was the guest of honor, agreed to the fact that there is a lot of corruption in Uganda. He further said that sometimes CSOs lack thoroughness in their assessment of the Government’s efforts to tackle social problems. He therefore gave a brief history on some of the problems that have been tackled by the NRM Government since it came into power including; Extra Judicial killings, Lack of Democracy, Collapse of the Economy, Collapse of Infrastructure, Poaching of animals in the National Park, among others.He explained why educational and civil service reforms have been difficult to carry out. He also outlined the intricacies in reducing corruption through legislation, while ratifying the government’s political will in fighting corruption.

Community Monitoring and Site Verification Visits The constant monitoring of the project sites and service delivery centres strengthened the community monitors’ capacity to detect and report gaps or faults in the service delivery. Following the submission of the reports, TIU endeavored to conduct site verification visits to ensure that the identified construction gaps are forwarded to the duty bearers for action.

RESEARCH

Research is at the core of TIU’s work. In 2018, TIU released several research Studies including Corruption Perception Index (CPI): Last year’s CPI revealed how freedom of expression is vital for exposing corruption and the injustices that it causes. TIU released the results in Uganda during a press conference that took place at TIU offices in Ntinda. The index unveiled that when freedom of expression is

L-R: TIU Executive Director and the BOD Chairperson during a press conference to release the CPI results

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Public Procurement Data mapping: Development Gateway (DG), a non-profit technology organization, was contracted to undertake a data mapping with the aim of understanding what fields of procurement data are currently being recorded in the physical documentation (throughout the procurement process) that can be mapped to the Open Contracting Data Standard (OCDS), a standardized and open format for procurement data, as well as the Government Procurement Portal (GPP). This report provides TIU Board Chair 3rd left, representative from MoES, TI- recommendations on the best way to address Ghana & TI-Rwanda representatives posing for a photo data gaps. during the launch of the report at - limited, corruption is more likely to run unabated COMMUNITY and that most countries do not do enough to protect media or engage civil society in open EMPOWERMENT AND dialogue, as critical components of efforts to CAPACITY BUILDING stop corruption.

Training of Private sector on Research on behaviors in Basic public procurement processes and Primary Education procedures This was about the Africa Education Network TIU in partnership with the Public Procurement multi-countries ‘collective actions to Improving and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA) the quality of the Basic Education Program in organized three trainings on public procurement Africa. It was conducted in Rwanda, Uganda and processes and procedures for different groups Ghana of people; the private sector (Contractors), Desk review as well as interviews with key civil society as well as district officials In the stakeholders in the selected primary schools districts of Lira, Masaka and Soroti. This was in the districts of Mukono and Wakiso were aimed at enhancing the capacity of CSOs in interviewed. The study targeted; Pupils, monitoring public procurements as well as teachers, head teachers, support staff, school increasing participation and monitoring of public management committees, district officials, procurements contracts. The trainings were ministry officials, religious leaders and CSOs. informed by a survey carried out to establish Validation of the findings was conducted and the the gaps in and capacity among the categories final report disseminated to key stakeholders for mentioned. This was later followed a refresher example representatives from TI-Rwanda and training for government officials on the GPP and Ghana integrity Initiative, Head Teachers from any other government initiative geared towards the selected schools in Wakiso and Mukono disclosure of procurement data in Masaka, Lira districts, District Education Officers and the and Soroti. PPDA staff pledged to closely follow- CSOs working on service delivery in Uganda as up with the procurement staff to ensure that they well as the media. upload the procurement data timely.

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Ms. Doreen Kyazze from PPDA facilitating a refresher training for procurement officers from the referral hospital and the district on how to upload to the GPP

from different people that walk in to office to Exchange learning visit in Jinja register a case. Throughout the year, TIU has received a total of 2402 calls using the above TIU paralegals in Mukono and Wakiso districts mentioned platforms. Cases relating to power held an exchange learning visit to Slum Women theft. Initiative Development (SWID) that brought on board all the paralegals from both the selected 2. Lira toll free call center: sub counties in Wakiso and Mukono districts. The toll free call centre is situated in Lira district This exchange learning visit was purposely held to mainly address service delivery concerns in to exchange ideas, share experiences and learn Lira, Oyam and Apac districts. Cases received more from each other on how to better the work and others such as domestic violence 255 of paralegals and achieve tangible results. calls were received (176 male and 79 female, (35 cases)13 117 and 58 were inquiries and recommendations. Integrity reporting systems 1. UMEME call center: In order to create a platform for people to report corruption tendencies, TIU operates 3 call centres ie the UMEME Integrity call centre which receives calls from all over the country, and the anti-corruption call centre situated at TIU head office in Ntinda to address all corruption related tendencies. Additionally, TIU receives complaints

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(Top) Outside view of kitchen constructed at Loro HC Roof for the Out Patient Department (OPD) was renovated and II, a donation by Dr. Emmanuela of CUAM (Doctors with solar installed after being blown off by wind. Africa, and inside view of the kitchen .

Sign post of Alik health center II, it never existed before.

also played a vital role in contributing towards Partnerships, collaborations and achieving the project outcomes. networking -Local Government collaboration TIU signed 3 collaboration agreements (MOUs) Networking Engagements with the districts Local Governments of Nebbi, A Team from TIU together with Dr. Delia Ferreira Mubende and Ntungamo. This not only provided held a number of networking visits with individuals an opportunity for effective collaboration between that make a contribution towards promoting TIU and the respective Local Governments but Transparency and accountability in the country. These included the Chief Justice, Hon. Bart Katureebe who highlighted that corruption partly persists due to the lack of rigor in the process of appointing judges. This, according to him, results in “crooked individuals” participating in the judiciary. He also said citizens should be more active in the fight against corruption. The Team also met with the Minister of Ethics and Integrity, Rev. Fr. Simon Lokodo who highlighted that working in the Anti-Corruption Private Public The CAO of Mubende DLG Ms Lilian Nakamate signing an Partnership has made him trust in civil society. MOU between TIU and Mubende District Local Government.

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Fr. Lokodo urged TIU to cooperate with the Directorate of Ethics and Integrity in public education and awareness-raising programs; an indication that the Directorate is willing to further collaborate with TIU to tackle corruption. Among the offices visited was the Inspectorate of Government where the Team met the Inspector General of Government Justice Irene Mulyagonja as well as three Directors from the Inspectorate. The Inspector General explained the role of the Inspectorate, focusing on its investigative powers, especially related to declared assets, to curb corruption. She also highlighted the new initiative “Strengthening Transparency and Accountability,” which focuses on preventing corruption in different regions of the country, and its potential to expand given its positive results.

L-R: Ms. Irene Mulyagonja, Ms. Delia, Mr. Odoy John Mary, Mr. Peter Wandera and Mr. Waidha Moses during a meeting at the Inspectorate of Government

L-R: Hon. Chief Justice, TIU former BOD Secretary, TIU BOD Chairperson, TI Chairperson and TIU BOD Vice Chairperson during the courtesy call

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R- L: Mr. Peter Wandera, Mr. Odoy John Mary, Fr. Lokodo, TI BOD Chairperson and the former TIU Board Secretary.

Information / Knowledge sharing materials Different information and or knowledge sharing materials were printed and distributed to different individuals for example; T- Shirts, posters, 400 copies of Anti-corruption practitioners’ manual or guide and 200 copies of Paralegals manual on land laws in local languages. The practitioner’s anti-corruption manual or guide is being used by land actors to fight corruption in the land administration and the paralegals manual is aiding TIU community paralegals as reference while executing their duties.

REGIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS

Land and Corruption Regional meeting 2 TIU staff travelled to Zambia to attend the Land and Corruption regional meeting that took place in Zambia. These were Mr. Padde Gerald Auku and Ms. Lilian Zawedde Senteza.

Other International travels included: - Domestic Resource Mobilization Inception Meeting in Kenya. This was attended by Mr. Peter Wandera and Ms. Lillian Zawedde. Annual Members Meeting in Denmark was - Ms. Lilian Z. Senteza making a presentation during the land attended by the TIU Chairperson, Mr. John and Corruption regional meeting in Zambia Mary Odoi. - Rwanda, Anti corruption dialogue in Ghana was attended by the ED - Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa in Ghana was attended by Ms. Betty Etim

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MEDIA OUTREACHES

Talk shows TIU held a total of 35 talk shows on different radio and TV stations. to create further awareness and platform for discussing accountability related issues, the Access to information Law and citizen’s role in monitoring the implementation of government programs. Radio stations where the talk shows were hosted included Radio Apac, Unity FM, Shine FM, Radio QFM, Tropical FM, CBS FM, Radio Star, Bukedde FM, Beat FM, KFM, among others. Ms. Lilian Zawedde Senteza in the middle with an official Some of these were held in partnership with other from the Buganda Land Board during a talk show on BBS TV Stakeholders including Community members, CSOs, and government. An estimated number of 10,040000 citizens were reached through these talk shows.

Running Social Media Campaigns TIU has continued to use social media to share information and also impact a wide range of people. TIU runs 2 facebook accounts ie Transparency International Uganda – Mubende District RDC (in yellow) talking during a radio talk show at Tropical FM shares general information about the various interventions and Stop Healthworkers Absenteeism which mainly shares information on a project implemented in Lira & Oyam. TIU also runs a twitter account tiu_uganda which has kept on growing over time with the number of followers increasing day by day.

Press conferences TIU undertook numerous press conferences L-R: The talk show host, Ms. Lilian Zawedde TIU including one to commemorate the Anti- Communication Officer and Mr. Peter Wandera TIU Executive Director during the talk show on BBS TV. Corruption Day and also celebrate TIU’s 25th anniversary. This was graced by the TI chairperson Dr. Delia Ferreira. In her remarks, she emphasized the need for active participation in the fight against corruption by the local journalists since they have a big role to play. “People are fed up with empty promises, people are fed up with the declarations and empty speeches. We now we need to act, implement and then Report.” Dr. Delia stated.

Dr. Delia having a discussion with the TIU BOD Chairperson 16 after the press conference TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL UGANDA - ANNUAL REPORT 2018

Dr. Delia during the press conference at TIU secretariat TIU IN THE MEDIA

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Useful Links 1. https://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=YqQjJB- DU914 2. https://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=_rbQL- SOHpMk 3. https://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=g-Sv- j0Y5R-E 4. https://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=DOBD- DeyxS5k 5. https://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=rqsMUX- v4pZA 6. https://www.you- tube.com/watch?v=- JCuVCJi0rHE 7. https://www.mon- itor.co.ug/News/ National/Uganda- third-most-corrupt- country-East-Africa- TI-report/688334- 4315402-i9uouoz/ index.html 8. https://www. youtube.com/ watch?v=ZN5DE- Qsc_KA 9. https://www. newvision.co.ug/ new_vision/ news/1471708/ govts-do- ing-fight-graft-trans- parency-internation- al 10. https://capi- talradio.co.ug/ transparency-inter- national-boss-dis- appointed-con- duct-bou-lead- ers-cosase-grill/

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HUMAN RESOURCE REPORT

Human Resource: Interns: This includes BOD & Sta – Interns, volunteers TI Uganda receives interns locally and This report gives an account of the organization internationally from all over the world. This year in terms of its Human Resources, sta strength Uganda and Canada. Below is a list of interns received this year.

Morris Connor Mbatudde Majorine Sta Changes: Carleton University University In the recent months, TI Uganda has 2months 2 months undergone sta changes as seen below: Transfers Volunteers: - Ms. Brenda Nasanga was transferred from TI Uganda recruited three volunteers namely, Ms. Shakira Nakawesi, Ms. Asimwe Patience, while Ms. Gloria Katushabe was on board for internship - Ms. Claire Kangabe was transferred from of three months. Patience and Shakira were both the position of Administrative Assistant, to recruited in March of last year. Shakira supported Programs Assistant, supporting Ms. Ireo the communications department, Patience Brenda in Implementing the OC4H project. worked with the administration, whereas Gloria - Ms Ireo Brenda who previously worked as the worked closely under the Human Resource and administrative Department. DGF, is now PO, OC4H, a project, funded by Transparency International UK. Policies: Recruitment The Human Resource and Finance manuals TI Uganda recruited one sta Ms Rosemary align the documents with the Audit requirement. placing Ms Brenda Nasanga, Chapters in review, have been to do particularly Mr. Ojok Moses who previously held a position with allowance and procurement, internalizing and ensuring that proper systems and measures Administrative assistant. are maintained in the organization. In that e ect, policies have been reviewed with minimal changes and can still be subjected to review in Resignations: case need arises. Ms. Docus Tigah tendered her Resignation in April 2018 to allow her concentrate on studies. Brendah Nassanga also resigned in November 2018

“People are fed up with empty promises, people are fed up with the declarations and empty speeches. We now we need to act, implement and then Report.” Dr. Delia

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TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL UGANDA

Mr. Odoy John Mary Mr. Kiwumulo Peter Ms. Hannah Awot Ms. Doreen Ruta Chairperson Vice chairperson Secretary Treasurer

Peter Wandera Celestine Mugisha Geoffrey Mayimba Agnes Mwanja Executive Director Board Member Board Member Board Member

THE TEAM THAT CONTRIBUTED TOWARDS PROMOTING TRANSPARENCY & ACCOUNTABILITY

Ekadu Francis Barbra Nambi Nabiddo Elizabeth Prog. Coordinator HR/ Admin. Coord. Senior Finance Officer

Lilian Zawedde Senteza Brenda Ireo Padde Gerald Auku Docus Tigah Communications Officer Programme Officer Programme Officer Programme Officer

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TRANSPARENCY INTERNATIONAL UGANDA

Winnie Nabulime Betty Etim Jackie Banturaki Nassanga Brenda Programme Officer Programme Officer Programme Officer Finance Officer

Rose Mary Nakyeyune Claire Kangabe Elizabeth Kulume Kabenge Steven Finance Officer Programme Assistant Programme Assistant Driver

Angela Birungi David Kizito Phiona Ongora Mudondo Grace Programme Assistant Programme Assistant Programme Assistant Office Assistant

Moses Ojok Tom Elobu Shakirah Nakaweesa Phiona Achora Admin. Assistant Office Assistant Volunteer Office Assistant

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SOME COMMUNITY CASES HANDLED

The Call Centre Cases The Case Of Sister Mary Justine Sister Mary Justine manages the land occupied by the Good Samaritan Sisters in Ttakajjunge Sub County Mukono District off Kayunga road. The land in question had a tenant who was compensated by the complainant (sister Mary) and she left the land in good terms. Unfortunately to the sister upon clearing off the tenant, another group of people came claiming to have ownership of some part of the land. The matter was reported to the Residence District Commissions Office (RDC), Mukono district. The RDC intervened by convening a meeting comprising of the District Police Commander (DPC), Regional Police Commander (RPC), District Internal Security Officer (DISO) and the police Land Protection Office. During the meeting, the RDC ordered the arrest of the persons referred as conmen by the name of Mr. Kasule and the Local Council 2 Chairperson as well as other 3 individuals. Thereafter, a case was lodged at Mukono police. During the process several documents were asked for by the police which the complainant provided. However to her, surprise since March 21st 2017, the file had never been ready for court. According to the complainant, when she followed up, she was informed that the police was still working on the file which raised a lot of suspicion. During the National Dialogue organized by TIU and CRED, the issue was presented and the Director Public Prosecution and police pledged to take up the case and the investigations are still on going.

Results from the Lira toll free call center The cases that were followed up to conclusion yielded results of improved service delivery, for example; The in charge of Onywako health center II who stole drugs was taken to court, drug theft in Amach health center IV has reduced after the interdiction of the store keeper and Askari who were involved in drug theft, Oyam district local government prioritized the construction of a kitchen at Loro health center II through lobbying. This has addressed the issue of lack of kitchen that was always being reported by the community members through the toll free call center. Issues of understaffing, inadequate accommodation due to incomplete staff houses, dilapidated Out Patient Department roof and lack of sign post in Alik health center II were addressed by Amach sub county in the financial year 2017/2018 at a cost of Eleven Million Four Hundred Fourteen Thousand Three Hundred Thirteen Thousand Shillings(11,414,313ugx). However, One Million Five Hundred Shillings was allocated for purchasing two (2) sign posts.

Best Practices • Timing of the community meetings: the community sensitization meetings were mostly organized in the afternoon because the community members attended to their gardens in the morning, this enabled more community members to attend. TIU also continued to use the approach of closely working with the district authorities in mobilizing communities to participate in contracts monitoring • Joint implementation of activities: During implementation, some activities like dialogues, talk shows, were conducted jointly with other stakeholders. This promoted division of roles where each would complement the other • Translation of the awareness messages into a language better understood by the community: TIU sought support from her partners in the community to make translations during the radio talk shows and community dialogues, for purposes of effective communication with the community.

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Transparency InternationalTRANSPARENCY Uganda INTERNATIONAL UGANDA FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018. Annual report and financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2018.

STATEMENT OF COMPREHENSIVE INCOME FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2018.

Incomes Notes 2018 2017 UGX UGX INCOME

Balance B/F 397,103,841 363,137,846

Donor income 3 1,017,686,630 1,628,072,627

Membership subscriptions 200,000 2,960,000

Other Income 4 17,248,350 6,252,199 Total funds available for the year 1,432,238,821 2,000,422,672

Administrative Costs 5 (135,200,808) (116,421,508)

Operational Costs 6 (688,202,638) (826,503,616)

Employment costs 7 (526,516,707) (611,552,454)

Finance Costs 8 (6,238,274) (5,249,210)

Depreciation (13,290,396) (15,762,059)

(1,369,448,823) (1,575,488,847) Fund balance 62,789,998 424,933,825

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Representatives From different Chapters during the regional Land and Corruption meeting in Zambia.

Paralegals from Mukono and Wakiso districts posing for a photo after the refresher training at TIU offices in Ntinda

TIU staff together with UNRA officials after a meeting at TIU offices

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