Urban air pollution remains an important public health challenge for populations in low-resourced countries in Africa and the global South. Many fast-urbanising cities in Africa lack the capacity to develop data-informed interventions for tackling air pollution and yet population exposure is more than 10 times the recommended health guidelines for many cities. This policy brief seeks to define evidence-informed and contextual pathways for accelerating action to tackle air pollution in Jinja city, a historical, yet fast-urbanising secondary city and an Industrial hub in Uganda. The brief explores the current air quality status from the continuous network of calibrated low-cost sensors, public perceptions from stakeholder engagements, and the existing institutional mechanisms and policy framework to help define the actionable pathways for clean air while adopting the participatory philosophy for sustained engagements.