Making A Difference Today

The launch of the Maputo Manifesto 2024 at the 5th African Conference on Debt and Development (AfCoDD V).

Making A Difference Today

Training of commununity Men & Women on natural resource rights Kamutur subcounty in Bukedea District

Making A Difference Today

Increased budget allocations to child-centric sectors such as education, health, and child protection

545+ Business advices given over 30 years
90% Business advices given. Excellence awards achieved
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About UDN

Who We Are

UDN is a national policy advocacy organization that promotes and advocates for poor and marginalized people to participate in influencing poverty-focused policies, demand for their rights and monitor service delivery to ensure prudent, accountable and transparent resource generation and utilization.

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Our Vision

A Uganda where public resources are prudently, sustainably and equitably managed.

Our Mission

To generate advocacy expertise that influences people-based and accountable public resource management in Uganda.

20+ Years of Impact
40+ Member Orgs
7 Sub-regions
What We Do

Our Programs

UDN’s work is guided by core values — inviolable commitments that express who we are as a CSO, and the principles that infuse all our practices and activities.

01

Policy Analysis & Governance

Enhancing citizen and civic capacity to influence public debt and development frameworks at local, national and international levels.

  • Debt monitoring
  • Budget advocacy
  • Policy influencing
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02

Citizens’ Empowerment & Engagement

Promoting citizens’ empowerment and engagement for accountability of public resources and delivery of quality public services.

  • Community mobilization
  • Rights awareness
  • Service monitoring
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03

Institutional & Organizational Development

Building a Uganda Debt Network with solid governance and management structures that enable delivery of high-quality results.

  • Governance systems
  • Capacity building
  • Network growth
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From Our Desk

Top Stories This Month

Hand-picked reads from UDN's newsroom.

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Community based monitoring evaluation system (cbmes) impact in communities

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Members of Parliament seek Legal ways to Evade Taxes! Citizens Rise Up

As you are aware, on 15th November 2016, Parliament returned the Income Tax (Amendment)…

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Health insurance is long overdue in Uganda

A healthy population is a pre-requisite for a productive human resource that will directly…

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Is Uganda-China Debt Relationship Sustainable?

Uganda like other developing countries does not wholly finance its Financial Year National budget,…

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Climate change could undermine Uganda’s Economic Performance:

Uganda’s economy grew steadily on an average of 7% per annum for the two…

News 22 Sep 2020

Is Uganda’s Economy strong enough to service its Public Debt?

Uganda’s economy promisingly grew on an average of 7% per annum for the last…

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Incorporate the growing population rates in the National budget Allocations.

Uganda is one of the countries with the fastest population growth in the world.…

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WILL UGANDA HARNESS HER PUBLIC DEBT DIVIDENDS?

As Uganda continues the inevitable path of debt acquisition for development, lessons can be…