[2][3] In 2007, he was the President of IACD, the International Association for Community Development and is the founder and former Executive Director of Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (KRC), a Ugandan NGO based in Toro sub-region.

[4][5] He is also a founder member of Mountains of the Moon University, the patron of several Savings and Credit Cooperatives (SACCOs) in Uganda and sits on a number of boards of charitable organizations that include Rotary International among others.

[1] Right after graduation in 1996, Ruhunda founded and served as the director and board secretary of Kabarole Research and Resource Centre (KRC), a position he relinquished in 2009.

[10] He also served as the founding chairperson for Uganda Governance Monitoring Platform (UGMP)[11] and as a patron for Sustainable Agriculture Trainers Network (SATNET), Rwenzori-Anti-Corruption-Coalition (RAC) among other entities.

He stated, "I hope God will touch the heart of President Yoweri Museveni to avoid the temptation of listening to short term opportunistic individuals that are pushing for the removal of Age limit in our Constitution.