Over years, Civil society Organizations understanding how Government responds to their necessary needs preferences and demands, and deliver goods and services is a prequisite in social accountability initiatives. However, it is important that the lives and livelihoods of the most vulnerable are safeguarded by guaranteeing them access to education, health, water and sanitation as well as social protection.

This report examines the role for natural resource wealth in driving Africa’s economic transformation and the implications of the low-carbon transition for resource-rich economies. Resource wealth remains central to most Sub-Saharan African economies such as Uganda, and significant untapped potential is in the ground. Subsoil assets such as metals, minerals, oil, and gas are key sources of government revenues, export earnings, and development potential in most countries in the Africa region.

This report gives a general appraisal of the human rights situation in Uganda in 2021 in fulfilment of Uganda Human Rights Commission’s mandate that the Uganda Human Rights Commission has the honour and pleasure to present to you its 24th Annual Report. The report goes ahead to give an insight of the period leading to and after the 2021 general elections. Other key emerging issues in 2021 included the twin bombings, banishment of persons from their societies and teenage pregnancy.