Cissy Kagaba is a lawyer and the Executive Director of the Anti- Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU). Cissy has considerable wealth of experience in human rights and governance related issues having worked with the Uganda Human Rights Commission and litigated various rights violations against state and none state actors. She has also traversed various parts of the country in a bid to empower the grassroots to demand for accountable and transparent leadership. Her input to Uganda’s anti-corruption legislation has seen some of her suggestions get incorporated in the final legislation. Cissy has served as consultant, trainer and facilitator on wide ranging issues with a variety of organizations such as MS- Denmark’s Thematic Program Policy on Anti-Corruption in TCDC Arusha, November, 2008, She has evaluated of the performance of Uganda’s Accountability Sector -2008, Trained local government official in 8 districts under USAID LINKAGES PROGRAM, Faculty facilitator withInternational Law Institute on various themes such as: Ethics, Accountability and Anti-Corruption , Forensic Accounting and Detecting Fraud in Procurement and Supply Chain, Role of CSOs in promoting governance and Anti-corruption etc. She is a regular analyst on governance issues with the print and broadcast media. She has trained the Uganda Police Force on the Anti-Torture Act among others. She has recently acted as a Consultant-Facilitator at the Forestry Governance Workshop for CARE International- Uganda Partners.
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