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: Cooperatives will play a key role in value addition of Ugandan tea, including setting up leaf collection centres, supporting transportation, and eventually establishing processing facilities to increase earnings for farmers.
Pledge Text: Build and repair roads using Ugandan workers and engineers, ensuring money remains in Uganda, and all government contracts will be headed by Ugandans, not foreigners.
Pledge Text: Revive Uganda Commercial Bank.
Pledge Text: Introduce harvest insurance for farmers.
Pledge Text: At least 200 kilometers of tarmac roads in every district—including Buhweju—to support agriculture and mining.
Pledge Text: Regulate tea prices. Revive cooperative unions that will buy tea, set fair prices, and give interest-free seed capital to expand production.
Pledge Text: Invest heavily in local processing plants, particularly rice mills and sugar processing centres owned by cooperatives or district unions.
Pledge Text: Build access roads in major sugarcane producing zones.
Pledge Text: Introduce a minimum guaranteed price for rice to protect large and smallholder farmers from exploitation.
Pledge Text: Rehabilitation of roads and drainage channels in Kampala City.