Derrick is a Ugandan lawyer and also founder and executive director at the nonprofit MIGHT Foundation. He’s also CEO at ATT technologies, a for-profit institution in Kampala. Through his work, Derrick supports regional peace, human rights and sustainable development. Derrick’s incubator project provides Ugandans with national online platforms and district and grassroots offline platforms where government officials, civil society, innovators and the private sector can inform citizens about COVID-19 and COVID-19 resource accountability. 

Sheilla is a committed women's rights activist from Kampala, Uganda. She is passionate about women's social and economic empowerment and is the co-founder of Mwanamke Law Firm, a nonprofit law firm that advocates for women's rights. Its mission is to increase women's access to justice through offering free and affordable legal services to women. Sheilla’s incubator project is called the Mwanamke SMS System and will provide people with information about policies, rights and stakeholder services concerning women. The SMS system will also collect information and feedback from people about women-focused public service delivery, and the state of women's rights in [...]

Harriet is the founder and Executive Director of Global Learning for Sustainability (GLS), a woman and youth-led organization that works on challenges related to SDGs 4, 5 and 13 through integrating inclusive strategies to promote diversity & inclusion. Harriet’s incubator project will work with vulnerable communities to assess the current impact of COVID-19 and uncover what services and relief support have so far been provided. 

Innocent is a social activist and co-founder of Inspire Africa Masindi - a youth-led community based organisation that works on increasing access to information among young people, particularly around human rights and social justice. He has done within his local community and continues to do it now, with aspirations to become an elected representative, using his connections with the community as the basis of his credibility.  Innocent’s incubator project is the development and launch of an online community radio station that amplifies community voices and helps co-create solutions through the use of an online community radio that will exploit the [...]

Rehema has worked with leading INGOs in Uganda and abroad on issues such as public health, social justice, women’s rights and youth leadership. She currently works with young talent, building youth leadership and advocacy capacity through Re!gnite Africa, an organization she founded in 2016 focusing on young adults.  Rehema’s incubator project, ''Youth Voices Against COVID-19'', is developing 10 case studies on COVID-19 response guidelines and measures to be used as learning tools for sensitive youth populations. Ten youth activists and artists will use these tools and discuss concepts of accountability and integrity on social media. The aim is to motivate [...]

Sandra Awilli is a social innovator from Uganda. Facing period poverty as a teenager, she ultimately founded PADShare, a digital tech solution to improve the accessibility of menstrual hygiene necessities for vulnerable girls during the COVID-19 lockdown. She realized that many initiatives like hers struggle with generating verified and traceable data for impact reporting.     In 2022 Sandra resigned from her role as a Project Country Lead to focus on building ShareCARD—a digital platform to enable community development institutions to have traceable real-time data on how final beneficiaries access their programs timeously and affordably. Her focus in 2023 is to leverage [...]

Phillip’s passion for health literacy and access to healthcare in Uganda, alongside his training in Global Health Policy from the University of Washington, led him to establish the African Health Grid (AHG). This non-profit media organization explores how media can play a role in health advocacy and promotion using storytelling, interactive gaming, and peer learning to involve communities as health defenders.  Phillip identified that many Ugandans lack basic knowledge about health issues, which prevents them from making informed decisions about their health and from demanding quality improvements in health services. Thus, he is focusing on the Health Defenders Program, which engages [...]

Peter is the founder of Reformation Foundation Uganda, an organization that focuses on promoting inclusion for women when it comes to governance. He lives in Kampala, Uganda, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing from Makerere Business School.  Peter noticed a lack of inclusion of women in governance and accountability at a local level. His initiative is to support local women leaders in becoming more involved in governance processes, from the village to the district level. The active participation of female leaders is critical in organizing more women around the issue of exclusion, encouraging them to become more active in [...]

Kavuma Kelly Mulungi is a media professional who lives in Kampala, Uganda. They work as a head of finance at Rainbow Africa Initiative (RAI), and a team leader at Rainbow News Uganda (RNU). These platforms provide information, sensitization, and awareness for the LGBTQ+ community and sex workers in Uganda. Beyond repressive laws, the lack of government-collected data renders Queer citizens and sex workers invisible. As a result, policies meant to address specific issues that these citizens face are falling short.   Video and audio stories are used as tools to bring the experiences of these marginalized communities to life for all [...]

Ingrid is a community organizer who lives in Kampala, Uganda. She focuses on grassroots women’s movements, using her experience as a community organizer to assist them with operations and structure development.  “Women in my country face challenges that impact their way of life such as; low or unpaid part-time jobs that pay less and require long working hours to provide for their families, high illiteracy rates, patriarchy, and child marriage.”   Ingrid has also seen how daily survival challenges can hamper social movements. Her focus is on assisting women-led community groups for savings groups. These saving groups allow women to address [...]