What KCCA's newly launched Weyonje Challenge is all about
The campaign encourages sustained behaviour change, going beyond short-term clean-up drives to long-term maintenance and safe waste management practice.
The KCCA executive director, Hajat Sharifah Buzeki (right), hands over a skip to the LC1 Luzige zone Musa Muleme (second left) and general secretary Nuru Nakabulwa after a cleaning exercise at Kisenyi III in Kampala on Saturday, November 29, 2025. (Photo by Francis Emorut)
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Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has launched the Weyonje Sanitation Challenge in Kampala Central Division, aimed at strengthening community ownership of sanitation while spotlighting outstanding local efforts.
The target areas are the slums of Kiti, Kawempe and Kiguli zone in Kisenyi III.
The campaign encourages sustained behaviour change, going beyond short-term clean-up drives to long-term maintenance and safe waste management practice.
At the launch on Saturday (November 29), KCCA executive director Sharifah Buzeki urged the community to own the city by ensuring that they work and sleep in a clean environment.
The KCCA executive director, Hajat Sharifah Buzeki (second left), explains the two types of skips for waste disposal, organic and inorganic, as the director of public health, Dr Sarah Zalwango (third left) and the mayor of central division, Douglas Nsubuga (left), look on after the cleaning exercise at Kisenyi III in Kampala on Saturday, November 29, 2025. (Photo by Francis Emorut)
The KCCA executive director, Hajat Sharifah Buzeki (right), interacts with the director of public health, Dr Sarah Zalwango, after the cleaning exercise at Kisenyi III in Kampala on Saturday, November 29, 2025. (Photo by Francis Emorut)
The KCCA executive director, Hajat Sharifah Buzeki (left), inspects the drainage channel at Usafil Market during the cleaning exercise at Kisenyi III in Kampala on Saturday, November 29, 2025. (Photo by Francis Emorut)
She said the three-week challenge will run until December 20.
"You are in the middle of the city, and all businesses are here. We have put up the challenge as a way of introducing cleanliness."
Buzeki encouraged the communities to buy bins and sort the garbage according to the type of garbage it contains.
“Waste is no longer useless, as people used to think. It's useful because so many people buy it, beginning with those who want to recycle plastic waste and organic waste for manure. We should change our mindset."
Musa Muleme, the LC1 chairman of Luzige zone in Kisenyi III, warned the communities against littering, saying it puts people at higher risk of falling sick.
The Weyonje Challenge is implemented in partnership with Fundoo, UNICEF Uganda, Love Uganda and NRM Patriotic League Uganda with incentives to reward the cleanest, safest, and best-managed communities across Kampala.