This week marks a year since Uganda President Yoweri Museveni ordered suspension of the Democratic Governance Facility, a $37 million-a-year donor fund that supports good governance programmes.
As a result, activities of many civil society organisations in Uganda that rely on it for funding have ground to a halt. Set up in 2011, the DGF had signed a memorandum of understanding with the country’s Ministry of Finance. Recipients of its money included parliament, agencies in the ministries of Lands, Internal Affairs, Justice, as well as the Uganda Law Society and the Uganda Human Rights Commission.
