Leadership & Advisory
When a diagnostic isn't enough, put us on retainer.
For directors and heads of programs ready to move past a single fix: redesigning a program for outcomes, building measurement into every cohort, and opening the rooms where creative-economy and innovation-sector decisions get made. Delivery that proves impact, paired with the convening power to make it land.
The Principals
Emily Banya
Founder & Principal - Strategy, Framework & Measurement
Founder of Utalii Creative, the East African company behind Akatuuti, which she built as a legacy project to fix the bottlenecks creatives face: no way to prove impact, no consolidated data, no path to funding. She designs programs and runs the gamified monitoring and evaluation that turns creative-sector activity into funder-ready proof.
- ✓Founded Utalii Creative and built Akatuuti to fix the bottlenecks creative companies face in East Africa
- ✓Leads the teams that deliver every engagement in our portfolio
- ✓Led the team that delivered M&E for the PISSCA Project, funded by the French Embassy in Uganda
- ✓Featured internationally, including by the BBC, for creative-sector innovation
Hon. Rachael Magoola
Principal Advisor - Convening, Policy & Creative-Economy Influence
A performing artist with over four decades on stage with Afrigo Band, Uganda's oldest band, turned creative-economy champion and former Member of Parliament. She founded and chaired UGAPAFOCI, the parliamentary forum that shapes creative-sector policy, and brings rare convening power across policy, cultural, and institutional spaces, available for advisory and board roles.
- ✓Founded and chaired UGAPAFOCI, the Parliamentary Forum for Creative Industries
- ✓Championed the Copyright and Neighbouring Rights (Amendment) Bill, 2025, passed by Parliament in 2026
- ✓Drove the review and reform of Uganda's draft National Culture Policy with the Ministry of Gender, Labour & Social Development
- ✓Leading the push for a national Arts Council to oversee the creative industry
- ✓Over 40 years as a performing artist with Afrigo Band, Uganda's oldest band
Together: two women leading from the front, an operator who can prove impact, and a convener who can open the room. That is the pairing development agencies and funders put on retainer.
Hon. Rachael Magoola, in the rooms that matter.
From founding the Uganda Parliamentary Forum for Creative Industries to advancing copyright reform and the draft national culture policy, this is the convening power and authority she brings to Akatuuti.
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Our Vision
Make Africa's creative sector bankable.
A consolidated, verifiable creative-sector database with every development partner, funder, and creative onboarded onto Akatuuti, turning a sector that has always been hard to measure into one that capital can finally trust.
For Directors, Funders & Development Agencies
Retainer and advisory engagements that de-risk your program portfolio: behavioural and program-design redesign, credible sector mapping, verifiable measurement, and the convening power to make it land.
Put us on retainer.
Tell us what outcomes you are trying to move, in the creative or innovation sector. We reply personally within one business day to scope a proposal. Best suited to funded programs and institutional initiatives. Already had a diagnostic? Mention it and we'll pick up from there.