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: Regulate money-lending, improve access to formal credit and protect vulnerable households.
Pledge Text: Establish industries in 21 sub-regions of Uganda, reducing pressure on the capital.
Pledge Text: Make garbage collection efficient by prioritising waste collection, recycling and turning garbage into useful products.
Pledge Text: Eliminate corruption in the handling of retirees' access to pension payroll.
Pledge Text: Enforce building standards so that all infrastructure is convenient for PWDs (Persons with Disabilities).
Pledge Text: Amend electoral laws to reduce nomination fees for youth candidates.
Pledge Text: Set up community rebuild centres to train child mothers in livelihood skills and support them with baby daycare programmes to enable them re-enter school.
Pledge Text: Utilise government institutions such as the chamber of commerce to register and certify welders, tailors, and youth in construction for easy marketing of their products.
Pledge Text: Change from the parliamentary to proportional representation so that the cost of campaigns is borne by the party not the individual.
Pledge Text: The FDC government will revise the parliamentary nomination fees back to UGX 200,000.