Racheal Nakayemba is an experienced Projects Accountant with a Bachelor’s Degree in Commerce and an ongoing CPA course. For the past four (4) years, she has provided direct financial oversight for a portfolio of three (3) to eleven (11) concurrent donor-funded projects under the Families, Parenting and Child Health Programme, while also supporting other programmes at the Child Health and Development Centre, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University.
She delivers comprehensive financial management support across the full project cycle, including budget preparation and planning, financial monitoring, expenditure tracking, stakeholder payment processing, budget reforecasting, and timely financial and donor reporting. She ensures full compliance with grant agreements, institutional financial policies, and donor requirements, while maintaining accurate, complete, and reliable financial records to support effective financial decision-making. Through continuous financial monitoring and analysis, she promotes the efficient and prudent use of project resources, ensuring funds are managed transparently and in line with approved budgets and workplans. Projects under her financial oversight include: Transforming Systems for Playful Parenting (GPI–LEGO), Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, Exploitation, and Family Violence (GPI–Oak), Parent Manual Project, Tides Project, Scale up Parenting for Respectability – Elma, Scale Parenting for Respectability – Wellspring, Scale up Parenting for Respectability – Echidna, Disability Inclusive Parenting (DIP), Refugees Early Learning and Playful Parenting Intervention (RELAP – Lamwo District), Strategic Planning and Organizational Strengthening – Parenting in Uganda and Scale up PfR Wellspring Extension.
Her role is pivotal in ensuring donor compliance and strengthening collaborative partnerships, while upholding robust financial controls, audit readiness, and accountability across multiple grants. She consistently aligns all financial practices with grant agreements and institutional policies.