Uganda: U.S. Sanctions Will Hurt NGOs Already Operating in Difficult Environment

25 June 2014
analysis

Since last year when European and American donors started moving their money around, first due to the daylight robbery of these funds by civil servants (including the government's own money), and then after the passing of the Anti-Homosexuality Act, many programs have been affected. When the donors sneeze, it's the NGO's that catch a cold.

For the so-called 'governance NGOs', the US sanctions spell a different kind of infection. Since 2011, the government in Kampala, like other African governments, has been wary of the role of NGOs in mobilizing political protest. Many have armed themselves with stronger legal controls such as the Public Order and Management Act of Uganda, and an arsenal of other tools to monitor and control the activities of externally funded charities.

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