{UAH} SUPPORT THE BLACK MONDAY MOVEMENT TO KICK M7 OUT

One obvious and immediate way for donors to build more "demand side accountability" is 

to actively and consistently support civil society's existing efforts to educate the public 

about the impact of corruption, such as via the Black Monday Movement. Donors should 

not wait to see if activists will face trials for these charges before speaking out. Rather, 

they should monitor cases of activists' arrests, including visiting them in detention even if 

they are detained briefly and observing first-hand the police's handling of these types of 

cases, and publicly call for burdensome bond conditions, such as weekly reporting to 

police, and charges to be dropped. 

 

Coordination problems are only likely to be exacerbated with the decline of direct budget 

support. As donor agencies turn away from general funding to concentrate on more 

discrete programs and projects, this could lead to fragmentation in how donors deal with 

the Ugandan government and each other. Additionally, important cross-cutting issues that 

fail to fit neatly within a sector or project may not be adequately recognized by donors.251 

Finally, there is a sense that narrower funding may lead to a type of anti-corruption 

"whack-a-mole." One donor official admitted that although they took great pains to tighten 

financial controls in its projects to safeguard its resources, they represented just "a 

fraction of the total" funds and the corruption could simply shift to other more vulnerable 

and less closely monitored donor projects.252

Viele GruBe

Robukui