Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) operating in Acholi sub-region are advocating for increased civic education among electorates ahead of the country’s 2021 general elections. The CSOs that operate in Gulu, Kitgum, Pader, Lamwo, Agago, Omoro, Nwoya and Amuru districts asserted that educating the electorates is …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society Organizations in Arua district have predicted 2020 to be a year of uncertainty. According to the CSOs, government needs to undertake deliberate efforts to restore hope in the citizens through guaranteeing freedoms of persons, especially as the election season gains momentum. Eric Ekimia …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society Organizations have re-launched the Black Monday campaign with a call to citizens to take on the fight against corruption. The organizations; Action Aid, Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU) Uganda Medical Association, National NGO Forum, among others yesterday set off to launch campaign at Action …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) have called for regulation of drug prices after they found huge prices differences for family planning commodities across mission and private health facilities. The demand was made as result of the annual survey on access to sexual reproductive …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) have jointly written to President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni demanding him to declare that no dam is constructed at Murchison Falls. The letter dated 28th November is signed by Dickens Kamugisha, the Executive Director of Africa Institute for Energy Governance …
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Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | As government and oil companies continue to negotiate on oil deals ahead of production, civil society organisations under their umbrella group, Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG) have come out to advise on how oil revenues should be used. At a meeting in Kampala held last …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society Organizations-CSOs in Hoima are up in arms against lodges and bars for allegedly disposing off used condoms in the open. Robina Tibakanya, the coordinator of National Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS-NACWOLA notes that lodges and bars dump used condoms in …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society Organisations-CSOs in West Nile region have raised an alarm over the high levels of alcohol consumption in the region. A survey conducted by Arua District NGO Network-ADINGON shows that alcohol intake in the region stands at 75 percent with men taking the …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society Organizations operating in the oil-rich Albertine Graben are demanding for consistent efforts aimed at protecting the environment in the light of oil and gas exploration and production in the region. According to the CSOs, oil companies operating in the region have not …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Civil Society Organizations (CSO) under the Umbrella Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group have expressed fears that impact of the highly shooting public debt is going to be much felt by Ugandans in the next financial year as government plans to spend more on debt …
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