Our work
AFLI combines rigorous analysis, trusted convening and grounded regional knowledge to help institutions and communities move from policy intent to practical results.
Monitoring public leadership, translating laws and budgets into usable information, and enabling citizens to assess services and engage duty-bearers constructively.
Connecting security dialogue with community ownership, lawful mobility, shared resources, livelihoods and cross-border cooperation.
Turning field evidence, institutional memory and specialist analysis into concise choices for leaders and public institutions.
Connecting land, livestock, productive livelihoods, investment, value chains and regional markets to shared prosperity.
Helping public and civic institutions organise evidence, preserve institutional memory and manage implementation coherently.
Building local information systems, community–facility linkages and practical platforms that improve service use and accountability.
Featured programme · Moroto District
In Rupa and Lotisan sub-counties, the PACED programme worked with community land institutions and RUCODET to strengthen community engagement, local dialogue and participation in decisions affecting land and pastoral livelihoods.
Explore the PACED programmeRegional development and investment support
AFLI supports public institutions, regional leaders and technical partners to turn dispersed evidence into coherent planning and investment products. Its contribution can span research design, synthesis, policy alignment, document architecture, executive briefing and investor communication.
Long-horizon frameworks that connect regional priorities with national policy, delivery institutions, financing and measurable implementation pathways.
Evidence-led regional baselines covering productive sectors, infrastructure, human capital, investment climate, risks and prioritised project pipelines.
Short, decision-oriented documents that identify what the evidence establishes, what remains uncertain and the actions requiring leadership direction.
Prospectuses, investors’ packs and presentation materials that translate technical analysis into opportunities, readiness stages, risks and clear partnership asks.
The Lango document suite includes the Lango Economic Development Plan 2025–2035, a 329-page Comprehensive Investment Profile 2026–2036, an executive summary for principals, an investment prospectus, an investors’ presentation pack and a regional integration and investment-enabling strategy. AFLI is identified among the technical and collaborative institutions supporting parts of this multi-institutional body of work.
The portfolio connects the 2023 Karamoja Regional Development Plan synthesis with the later investment-planning package. The synthesis reviewed previous interventions and proposed an integrated 2035 framework; the current profile, executive brief, data-gap register and field register extend that evidence base for stakeholder review and data completion.
The draft Walimu Cooperative Union Economic and Commercial Strategy proposes a ten-year pathway from salary dependence towards cooperative finance, productive enterprise, school-based economic activity, integrated markets and stronger governance.
Document access and status: public summaries describe the nature of this work. Draft, restricted and approval-dependent documents are not published as open downloads without the responsible institution’s clearance.
Discuss regional planning support →Mentorship and international learning
AFLI runs an active mentorship programme for local students and international students undertaking exchange or internship placements through foreign universities. Placements combine structured supervision, regular feedback and an applied assignment linked to AFLI’s research, advocacy and regional policy work.
International placements have included students from the International Work–Global Studies programme at the School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University, Sweden. The university’s placement model combines academic learning with supervised experience in sustainable development, migration and integration, and peace and conflict.
Enquire about mentorshipA designated mentor agrees the placement objectives, introduces the student to AFLI’s work and defines an appropriate assignment.
Students undertake research, analysis, communication or project-development tasks with routine guidance and professional feedback.
Progress is reviewed during the placement and the final output is assessed before it is treated as an AFLI product or used externally.
Editorial status: these materials demonstrate learning and supervised contribution. Student drafts, attendance records and advisory working papers are not automatically final AFLI publications or institutional positions.
Social accountability
AFLI developed the Joint CSO Training Manual and four handbooks on Transparency, Accountability and Anti-Corruption (TAAC). Produced with the Office of the Auditor General, the Inspectorate of Government and the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority, with support from GIZ, the series covers corruption, anti-corruption institutions, procurement law, service delivery and infrastructure monitoring.
The materials have helped build the capacity of civil-society organisations in the district. AFLI’s Citizens TAAC Service Delivery Monitoring Framework also organises communities into groups that track budgets and services, document findings and raise them directly with duty-bearers. An MoU with the Inspectorate of Government’s Moroto Branch supports this work.
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Institutional co-publisher of the joint training handbooks, contributing the public-audit and accountability perspective.
Institutional co-publisher. AFLI also has an MoU with the Moroto Branch Office to support citizen TAAC service-delivery monitoring.
Institutional co-publisher, contributing procurement law, contract monitoring and public-infrastructure oversight content.
Supported the production of the Joint CSO Training Manual and its four TAAC handbooks.
Strategic policy advisory support
AFLI, in partnership with Operation Wealth Creation, provides research, policy analysis and strategic advice to support informed decision-making and effective implementation of Government of Uganda programmes. This work contributes to the Office of the President’s APEX coordination mechanism and addresses governance and development challenges.
AFLI’s Executive Director, supported by professional staff and Board members, serves as Principal Advisor to General (Rtd.) Caleb Akandwanaho (Salim Saleh), Chief Coordinator of OWC and Senior Presidential Advisor on Defence. AFLI provides evidence-based recommendations to identify implementation gaps, assess policy options and propose corrective action for consideration by the President and APEX leadership.
Aligned with ongoing government reforms and restructuring, the partnership supports better coordination, accountable leadership and responsive public administration. Its goal is to improve livelihoods and quality of life by encouraging shared responsibility between communities and their leaders, strengthening public trust, participation and sustained development.
This public description presents the purpose and institutional value of the partnership. It does not disclose confidential agreements, restricted operating arrangements or unpublished terms.
Collaborative practice
AFLI’s work is shaped through structured discussion among leadership, researchers and programme specialists. These sessions bring field evidence, institutional experience and different professional perspectives into practical plans, policy advice and implementation decisions.
How we work
AFLI’s government-facing advisory experience includes policy synthesis, applied research, knowledge management, executive briefing and coordination support. Confidential instruments and restricted operating arrangements are not published.