Rytone (25) is a community activist.  She is excited to build a more comprehensive understanding of accountability, and how it relates to all components of our lives as citizens.  Her idea is to train up accountability officials in Wakiso, Uganda.  She envisions these ambassadors working with the broader community and building civic capacity to guard against corrupt behaviours.  Rytone is passionate about inclusion and working collaboratively.  For her, broad collaboration has the potential to change the way in which we talk about accountability.  

Dabrine (25) is from the Mityana District, a rural part of Uganda.  Growing up, Dabrine saw how rural Uganda lacked public service delivery compared to urban areas.  It inspired him to create Youth and Women Empowerment (MYWE). MYWE focuses on promoting women, girl and youth inclusion when it comes to monitoring service delivery.  The organization also seeks to strengthen participants’ overall resilience through assisting them in establishing income generation activities, including access to low interest loans as seed capital. Dabrine has also seen how corruption hampers service delivery, from government procurement of goods and services all the way through to [...]

Brian is currently a Community Trainer on Development Response To Displacement Impact Projects (DRDIP) with Recreation For Development and Peace in Uganda. The program is run in partnership with Action Aid International Uganda and the Inspectorate Of Government. DRDIP is a 5-year community driven development government program funded with support from the World Bank to address the impact of forced displacement on countries and communities in the Horn of Africa (HOA) that are hosting refugees. It is a multisectoral development response by the government of Uganda.

Dorothy Nyambubi is a degree holder of Mass Communication and Journalism from St Lawrence University, Kampala city, Uganda and she is currently working with 93.6 Kings FM, a local media house in Masindi District, Uganda as an English News Anchor, Traffic Control Officer, and finally as an accountability reporter.  She is also an advocate and activista working with Recreation for Development and Peace (RDP) Uganda. She works as a Board member of Imarisha Dada (Transform A Sister) a Local organization based in Masindi District, Uganda which focuses on issues affecting young girls and young women but also boys are considered [...]

Alindwe Geoffrey is a passionate, consistent, hardworking and highly motivated person who enjoys working with the community. I am a friendly and dependable person who feels it is a responsibility of the concerned citizens of the world to create a sustainable change for the betterment of the community we live in  . I am always looking forward to improving my position in the workforce, expanding my knowledge and skills in the field of serving humanity. I am currently working as a community liaison officer for the Mota ENGIL Tilenga Enabling infrastructure Execution Works and services for the industrial area Site preparation. Project. I have gained [...]

Due to political unrest, Namwangwa left the DRC in 2015 and is now living in Uganda. He has worked making mud bricks in order to learn English and now says his main passion is in education. "I never dreamed seeing other young people struggling as I did.  I developed self-organized learning spaces to fight education exclusion with a model that helps students feel like they are in the right place while learning. I also help them fish from their potential through survival skills that are taught in a learner-centered environment."

Bikeke Saimon is a skilled journalist with 10 years of experience. He is Founder and Coordinator for Umbrella for Journalists in Kasese (UJK) a media organization that works towwards an independent and impartial Press.  "As an 'accountapreneur' I want to promote Freelance Journalists Community of Practice (FJCoP), as independent workers in the media industry targeting community-based journalists that cover critical societal issues at a grassroots level offering Mentorship, Trainings and Community Reporting Techniques.  In addition, I look at outreach campaigns, grant opportunities and creating online platform that will help our Community of Practice to overcome the financial hardship and have bargaining powers.  I [...]

Lydia is a lawyer by profession and works as a Country Director for SEMA - a not-for-profit organization that aims to increase transparency and accountability of public service institutions by providing citizens with various platforms to give feedback that in turn improves public service delivery. Lydia is passionate about governance and creating change in her community. Her work involves making sure that SEMA's strategy, operating structures, partnerships and human capital structures are well aligned to effectively support the realization of SEMA's long term aspirations in Uganda.

Martin is a 28-year-old, Pan-African from Uganda, who has worked in the social change movement since 2014, He is the founder of Generating Rural Opportunities for Women (GROW), a community-based microfinance organization operating in the impoverished rural Kumi District in North Eastern Uganda, promoting rural financial inclusion. He specializes in public policy analysis with particular focus on; rural development policy, urban planning and housing policy, technological policy and cyber security. Through the Budget Lab project for the Incubator, he aims to influence the government of Uganda to uphold the decision of domestic resource mobilization and utilization for equitable and sustainable [...]

Nancy is a Law Graduate (LLB) from Uganda Christian University-Mukono. She is very passionate about Human Rights and working against Sexual Gender Based Violence. She is currently an active member of National Youth Engagement Network (NYEN Uganda) and a global Youth leader on the Youth Compact Champions program for Young people in Humanitarian Action which is currently being coordinated by Restless Development, Action Aid, the UN Group for Children and Youth and UNFPA with support from other compact organizations. Her Incubator project involves actively volunteering to train young girls on how to make reusable sanitary pads with the aim of [...]