GCIC Uganda

The purpose of this newsletter, the GCIC Newsletter, is to empower you as a citizen with information, regarding the different activities, projects and programmes that the Government has undertaken in your area, so that you can benefit from them or participate in their monitoring to ensure value for money.

On April 28, I delivered the inaugural Tumusiime-Mutebile Memorial Lecture at Makerere University. During the lecture, I commented about the unfinished business the former Bank of Uganda Governor left behind and would want us to address to propel Uganda to the level he and all of us want it to get to.

In the exercise of the Constitutional mandate of the President, H.E Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has appointed Senior Presidential Advisors, RDC Secretariat Commissioners, Resident District Commissioners, Resident City Commissioners, Deputy Resident District Commissioners and Deputy Resident City Commissioners

The Minister of Education and Sports; First Lady Hon. Janet Museveni, constituted the Education Policy Review Commission (EPRC) under Legal Notice No. 5 of 2021 which commenced operations on 07th May 2021. PRESS RELEASE No. 001/01/22 (PDF)

https://youtu.be/2D3spzp3HfI Over the last few days, fuel prices have soared in Uganda, following the truck drivers’ protest against high costs of COVID tests at Malaba and Busia border posts. Most motorists have resorted to other means of transport including walking to...

https://youtu.be/uZc9RKA_uIY On the 8th of January, 2022, the Minister for Works and Transport, Hon. Gen. Katumba Wamala, finally launched the toll services on the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway. Many years of a free ride had come to an end. However, there are a...

https://youtu.be/Dbuki6Te31k The Department of Artificial Intelligence, commonly referred to as AI, has been focusing on three areas; agriculture, health and natural language processing. The Department is headed by Dr. Joyce Nakatumba Nabende. In Agriculture, AI has focused on a cassava project....

Monthly round-up of News from the Office and Residence of the President of the Republic of Uganda.

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