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.

The 2022 report takes into account police’s challenges and its efforts to curb crime. The report indicates a general increase in crime rate in 2022 compared to the previous year. There was an 18 percent increase in the number of crimes reported to Police from 196,081 cases reported in 2021 to 231,653 cases mainly due to the full opening of the economy after the Covid-19 lockdown and growing confidence to report crime to Police.

Uganda’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Report 2021 provides a national overview of progress on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, using the latest available data and estimates. It tracks the country’s progress towards the 17 Goals with in-depth analyses of selected indicators for each Goal.

Second in series, the aforementioned report focuses on African Governance Futures 2063 Scenarios through utilising future studies as its scientific platform. This report represents a collective effort that highlights rigorous, evidence-based research spanning a period of one year. Secondly, Africa can harness incoming changes and direct the trajectory of national, regional and global governance, economic development, and environmentally sustainable practices.

The analysis of the long-term foreign currency sovereign credit rating actions in Africa indicates that there were more sovereign rating downgrades than upgrades. Five countries were downgraded and these included: Burkina Faso; Ghana; Mali; Namibia; and Tunisia – compared to only two upgrades that included Angola and Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

Agenda 2063 is Africa’s development blueprint to achieve inclusive and sustainable socio-economic development over a 50-year period. The continent aims to achieve this objective through the realisation of five ten-year implementation plans. The First Ten-Year Implementation Plan of Agenda 2063, spanning 2014 to 2023, outlines a set of goals, priority areas and targets that the continent aims to achieve at national, regional and continental levels.

The Annual Crime Reports does provide accountability to the Ugandan citizenry on how the Uganda Police Force is fulfilling its mandate as stipulated under Article 212 of the Constitution of Uganda. Generally, in the year 2021, there was a 0.1% increase in the volume of crimes reported to Police from 195,931 cases reported in the year 2020 to 196,081 cases in 2021.