Field attachment is a pre-professional experience where students often get hands on practical experience. Internship is a requirement whereby arrangements for students are made to seek or be helped to get placed in different forms of work in the course of their study programmes in order to experience the real life of work and to relate learnt theories to actual work setting and thus appreciate their applicability. The report highlights the activities, tasks and assignments that the intern was assigned during his internship exercise with Kalungi sub-county in the department of Accounts and Finance Program. This was for a period of 8 weeks starting from 7th June to 4th August 2019. The internship was intended to expose the student intern to practical application, knowledge and skills in the field of Economics and as such, he believes that his placement at Kalungi sub-county was a very beneficial experience. During the 8 weeks training, the intern participated in a number of activities such as report writing, attending conferences, preparing for donor audits, asset registration, analysis various reports from different organizations, attending staff meetings, and filling monitoring. The intern was able to attain a number of skills and acquire knowledge on various concepts from participating in these activities. The skills include team work, report writing, developing articles for print media publication, organizational and intercultural competence, program organization and coordination, communication and computer skills. The intern had a wonderful experience at Kalungi sub-county and recommends the organization to organize more of such programs and workshops to widen its sphere of operation. It will be of much benefit to the organization if it continues to create similar platforms for young people across the country as a way of building their capacities bringing them to appreciate the civil society sector and share in the vision. However, there were a number of challenges that the intern experienced while at Kalungi sub-county. These included, slow internet at times, traffic jam on the road, instability in power supply, among others. Despite the challenges, the intern was able to complete the internship course successfully within the required experiential time as far as the study course is concerned. Generally, working at Kalungi sub-county gave the intern the best preamble into the working environment with specific reference to the department of Finance. The intern gained a lot of knowledge on topical and economic issues in Uganda, the effects of the corruption to the economy, budget analysis, debt management and the taxation system in Uganda.

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