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: Support universities in their numerous initiatives to make their campuses beautiful, their libraries up-to-date, and their products globally competitive.
Pledge Text: Focus on vocational education both at the institutional and community level, backed by a clear institutional framework to allow for school dropouts (both boys and girls), child mothers and other...
Pledge Text: The current levels of low transition from primary to secondary and onwards to tertiary and university education shall be addressed through the removal of the underlying causes, such as the...
Pledge Text: Invest in the provision of adequate WASH (Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene) facilities and services across the country.
Pledge Text: Review and increase the number of scholarships by harmonising the various centres of financing high-level education, including loan schemes. Increase the number of scholarships at the University level to 10,000...
Pledge Text: Establish a Government Support Scheme. This scheme shall be revisited to ensure that the policy is aligned towards those with the greatest need at the household level.
Pledge Text: Restore the dignity of the teaching profession: This will be through equal and enhanced pay and a better working environment for all. Teachers will be supported to diversify their incomes...
Pledge Text: Strengthening the existing education infrastructure in terms of classrooms, teacher remuneration and in-service training, and recruitment and deployment of teachers in hard-to-reach areas.
Pledge Text: Redesign the Health Service Commission (HSC) to be an envy of the region as it manages the health workforce by recruiting, confirming, promoting, and exercising disciplinary control over health service...
Pledge Text: Ensure that every Health Centre III has a medical Doctor to bring down the doctor-patient ratio.