IPOD stranded as major funders close taps.

 

Shs35b current IPOD funding: The government increased the funding to IPOD from Shs10 billion to Shs35 billion in the Financial Year 2021/22.

The Interparty Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) yesterday revealed that their major funder, the Democratic Government Facility (DGF), will be closing its operations in Uganda by December while the Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy may not be in position to fund the political parties’ platform.

This was announced by Mr Richard Todwong, the chairperson of IPOD and secretary general of the National Resistance Movement party, during a meeting with Mr Norbert Mao, the minister of Justice and Constitutional Affairs in Kampala.

“The Netherlands Institute for Multiparty Democracy on the other hand may not be in position to continue its support [to] IPOD secretariat since it has been under immense pressure from the diaspora chapter of National Unity Platform (NUP), which has staged various demonstrations at its head office and at the Dutch Parliament, demanding that the Institute stops support to IPOD,” said Mr Todwong.