Track the pledges. Hold the candidates accountable.
Track the pledges. Hold the candidates accountable.
Welcome to the Uganda Presidential Election Promise Tracker 2026, an initiative of the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) in pursuit of our goal of promoting accountability journalism and civic engagement.
Designed primarily for journalists and news outlets, this tracker provides a central resource to help newsrooms and news platforms focus their reporting on the issues and commitments shaping Uganda’s 2026 general election. It documents the promises, pledges and manifesto commitments made by presidential candidates and their key party officials during the campaign period, giving the news media timely and verifiable information to use in their coverage.
For more information about the tracker and the data collection methodology used, visit the ‘About the tracker‘ page.
Pledge Text: The citizens will have a right to select their leaders in a free and democratic way and hold the leaders accountable for the promises that arise out of their own...
Pledge Text: The protection of the lives and livelihoods of citizens shall be fully extended to all forms of human rights and freedoms. The MDAs (Ministries, Departments, and Agencies) to be involved...
Pledge Text: The entities responsible for labour across government and the private sector, including the Labour Unions, will put in place adequate policies and legal frameworks for the security of employees, as...
Pledge Text: A Salaries Review And Harmonisation Commission will be instituted to deal with salary discrepancies and create equity across sectors and segments, keeping focus on performance.
Pledge Text: Support universities in their numerous initiatives to make their campuses beautiful, their libraries up-to-date, and their products globally competitive.
Pledge Text: Have an education system that will empower both the graduates and the semi-educated by going more vocational and providing education that the market needs.
Pledge Text: Police officers to get a minimum of USD 500 monthly from the Central Government and a monthly allowance from the federal governments that will be established.
Pledge Text: Children of security officers like police and army will be well taken care of, get free education plus school requirements and their parents will get better housing facilities.
Pledge Text: Engage the UPDF (Uganda People's Defence Forces) only in meaningful wars and only after sanction by the Parliament.
Pledge Text: Establish the Federal Economic Empowerment Programme which is equitably going to help the youth especially and the young women to get jobs.