With a controversial election in January, followed by severe restrictions on social and economic activity as a result of a surge of infections from COVID-19 in the spring, CSOs in Uganda had a difficult year in 2021. Setting the tone was the indefinite suspension on February 3 of the Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), a five-year governance program funded by a consortium of European donors. Civil society was further constrained by a pandemic lockdown that started in June and the suspension of fifty-four CSOs in August.