The Prospective Country Evaluation (PCE) is an independent evaluation of the Global Fund commissioned by the Global Fund's Technical Evaluation Reference Group (TERG). The PCE is designed to evaluate how Global Fund policies and process play out in country in real time and provide high quality, actionable, timely information to national program implementers and Global Fund policymakers. The PCE is implemented by the Infectious Diseases Research Collaboration (IDRC) in collaboration with IHME and PATH. This report provides an overview of the PCE platform establishment in Uganda, progress to-date, and highlights early findings from the initial evaluation phase covering October 2017 to February 2018, which focused on the funding request and grant-making process for Global Fund's 2017-2019 application cycle.