Without deliberate attention to sustainability from the outset, even strong technical interventions remain externally dependent and struggle to outlast donor funding.
By Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church Image credit: Hatem–Tunisialive In late 2019, I travelled to Kampala to work with the DFID and EU supported Strengthening Uganda’s Anti-Corruption and Accountability Response (aka SUGAR) Technical Assistance Facility. My colleague, Dr Teddy Atim, and I were tasked with figuring out why, after five years of supporting the implementation of the 2009 Anti-Corruption Act, public servants convicted of corruption were still not routinely removed from t