We welcome you to read these Guidelines for Oil and Gas Companies, produced by the Cultural Institutions in the Albertine Graben. They were developed to protect and promote the cultural rights of the concerned communities in Bunyoro, Alur and Acholi, and to promote their cultural, economic and social well-being.
These Guidelines are meant to equip our cultural leaders in managing their relationship with the oil and gas companies as productively as possible. The discovery of economically viable quantities of oil in our region has raised many hopes for an improvement in the status of our people, as well as fears. The Guidelines are designed to ensure that such hopes are realised and that obstacles and fears are overcome, so that oil resources are developed and managed for the benefit of all.