Founded by people who saw the gap

Saul co-founded Pupa Advisory Initiative after building experience across risk management, insurance advisory, sales and marketing. As Insurance Partnerships Lead, he connects Pupa's community-owned approach with the technical knowledge, underwriting capacity and institutional support of established insurance providers.

His focus is building fair and practical partnerships between communities, SACCOs, cooperatives and insurers. He works to ensure that protection is affordable, clearly understood and structured around the risks households actually face rather than imposed as a conventional insurance product.

Areas of focus

• Insurance partnerships and institutional engagement
• Community risk-pooling arrangements
• Risk management and insurance advisory
• Affordable and accessible protection models
• Sales, relationship management and stakeholder coordination
• Connecting community needs with insurer capacity

Experience & background

Saul has professional experience in Uganda's insurance sector, beginning with UAP Insurance and continuing as the business transitioned into UAP Old Mutual. He later moved to Jubilee Insurance, strengthening his understanding of insurance operations, risk advisory, client engagement and the development of protection solutions.

His experience across established insurers supports Pupa's work of bringing trusted insurance partners into community-led arrangements without taking ownership away from the members themselves.

Joy co-founded Pupa Advisory Initiative with a background in interior architecture, entrepreneurship and the development of practical solutions for households and families. As Community Experience Lead, she helps ensure that Pupa's work begins with how people actually live, organise, communicate and support one another.

Her focus is making community protection understandable, inclusive and relevant to everyday life. She helps translate complex ideas about risk, insurance and financial resilience into accessible programmes that communities can participate in, shape and confidently own.

Areas of focus

• Community engagement and member participation
• Programme and service-experience design
• Plain-language risk awareness and communication
• Women, families and household resilience
• Entrepreneurship and community-led innovation
• Sustainable and people-centred solutions

Experience & background

Joy is an interior architect and entrepreneur whose work spans design, household-focused enterprise and sustainable living. Her entrepreneurial experience includes Becca Homes, Mwanababy Store and Sanyu Reusable Pads. This background brings a practical, human-centred perspective to Pupa's work with families, savings groups and underserved communities.

Lameck leads Pupa’s technology, data and sustainable transformation work, bringing together expertise in environmental sustainability, information technology, software development, data management and artificial intelligence.

With an academic foundation in the environmental field, he understands how climate pressures, natural-resource challenges and changing environmental conditions affect community livelihoods. He later expanded into IT, software development and data analytics to develop practical digital solutions that help communities respond to these challenges, manage risk and build long-term resilience.

At Pupa, Lameck guides the development of accessible digital systems that help communities organise, manage information, understand their risks and participate effectively in the protection arrangements they own and run. He also leads the responsible use of artificial intelligence and data to improve programme delivery, decision-making and impact measurement.

Areas of focus

• Environmental sustainability and community resilience
• Artificial intelligence and business transformation
• Software and digital platform development
• Environmental and community data management
• Data analysis, governance and impact measurement
• Climate and sustainability technology
• Community-focused digital solutions

Experience & background

Lameck brings experience from the Uganda National Roads Authority and his work with Makerere University, Five-Oceans Sustainability to combine environmental sustainability, technology, data and practical problem-solving.

At Pupa, he uses this experience to develop accessible digital systems, strengthen programme data and help communities better understand and respond to financial, environmental and climate-related risks.