Kampala, Uganda: As Uganda heads into the final stretch of the 2026 general election, the African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) has launched a new digital platform designed to track, verify and compare campaign promises made by presidential candidates.
The 2025/26 Presidential Campaign Promises Tracker comes at a crucial moment, with less than a month to polling day and candidates making wide-ranging commitments on health, education, the economy, governance reforms, agriculture, security and youth employment.
The Tracker compiles, categorises and verifies public pledges drawn from manifestos, campaign speeches, interviews and official statements, allowing users to examine what each candidate is promising and how their commitments compare across sectors. It enables filtering by candidate, sector, and sub-sector, as well as keyword searches for specific issues dominating the campaign trail.
ACME says the platform aims to provide Ugandans with a factual basis for evaluating competing presidential agendas, especially as candidates intensify nationwide campaign tours. It also helps clarify which promises are new, which are revised and which repeat earlier electoral commitments.
The tool is in its pilot phase but already captures the majority of publicly documented pledges made during the 2025–2026 campaign cycle. ACME says updates will continue as candidates release final policy proposals and address high-stakes topics such as service delivery, constitutional reform, oil revenue management and national security.
After the election, the Tracker will evolve into a monitoring tool for assessing whether the elected president is fulfilling their commitments, providing a basis for long-term accountability on issues central to Uganda’s development.
ACME has made the platform publicly accessible at https://tracker.acme-ug.org, describing it as a resource that will help the country navigate an election season marked by competing narratives, ambitious pledges and heightened political engagement.
The organisation also noted that additional election-related resources, including policy guides, backgrounders and voter education materials, remain available on its website.
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