Josephine Kitongo

Josephine K. Kitongo serves as an Acquisition & Assistance Specialist at USAID/Uganda, where she plays a pivotal role in designing and managing procurement and assistance instruments that advance the agency’s mission of building local capacity in health, governance, and ecosystem management. She specializes in non-construction acquisitions aligned with technical assistance and evidence-based programming, often leveraging cooperative agreements and task orders to support service delivery by local and international partners. Her work ensures compliance with federal acquisition regulations while embedding USAID’s principles of localization, sustainability, and performance monitoring into every procurement lifecycle. Josephine collaborates with a diverse array of professional service providers, including management consultants, public health technical firms, and monitoring and evaluation specialists. She maintains collaborative relationships with both U.S.-based and Ugandan-led organizations that bring domain expertise in health systems strengthening, particularly under PEPFAR-funded initiatives, as well as governance and environmental resilience programs. Her contracting approach emphasizes performance-based outcomes, requiring robust work plans, data-driven reporting, and adaptive management frameworks from vendors. Josephine’s procurement portfolio reflects a strong preference for open, non-set-aside competitions, with 100% of her awards issued under unrestricted solicitations. While she does not currently prioritize socioeconomic set-asides such as 8(a), HUBZone, or SDVOSB programs, her approach prioritizes technical merit and local institutional capacity over socioeconomic categorization, aligning with USAID’s broader strategy of empowering Ugandan-led solutions. Her primary procurement focus lies in NAICS 541990 (All Other Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services) and 541611 (Administrative Management and General Management Consulting Services), reflecting her specialization in complex, knowledge-intensive services. She routinely procures technical advisory services, performance monitoring systems, training programs, and institutional strengthening interventions that require deep contextual expertise in Uganda’s development landscape.