Uganda and Governance
- Capital:
Kampala - Population:
33398682 - Size:
236040.0 Km2
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- The BLDS governance collection
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Search for the latest governance-related print documents on this country from the British Library for Development Studies collection
- Overview of Uganda’s health care system
- M. Pearson / Department for International Development Health Systems Resource Centre, 2000
- Despite strong economic growth, averaging around eight per cent per annum over the past decade, Uganda remains amongst the world’s twenty most poorest countries. This paper, produced on behalf of the Department for International ...
- How public expenditure management has been linked to poverty reduction policy goals
- M. Foster; A. Fozzard; F. Naschold; T. Conway / Overseas Development Institute, 2002
- Summary produced by the Governance Resource Centre. It has become a part of the conventional wisdom of development policy that poverty reduction is one of the main development objectives. What are the key factors influencing th...
- Limitations, constraints and the inclusion of women's rights in the Ugandan constitution-making process
- J. Oloka-Onyango / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- The issue of human rights was prominent in the constitution-making exercise in which Ugandans engaged over the six year period from the 1989 to 1995. The role of civil society actors albeit only indirect, was critical to the constitut...
- Affirmative action and education for womem in Uganda
- M. Nalzirunda / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- Action for Development (ACFODE) was created as an indigenous action-oriented NGO, to stimulate, energise and catalyse action on women's issues and improve their status in Uganda. The role of ACFODE in claiming gender equality and wome...
- Workers, their rights of association and their struggle to influence
- J-J. Barya / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- This paper analyses the forces behind: the enactment of the Trade Union Laws (Miscellaneous Amendments) Statute 1993, in particular looking at the role that workers and their trade unions played vis-a-vis the state and ...
- The limitations of human rights NGOs in Uganda
- G. B. Tukahebwa / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- The universalisation of human rights, is not contested today, rather the contextualisation of these rights in different societies is contested. This paper uses historical analysis, drawing from the work of, amongst others, Nino, Mamda...
- The limited expansion of Uganda's third sector
- S. Makara / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- Traditionally, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have not been looked upon as significant alternative providers of services to the state sector or as representing alternative policy framework to the state or private sector in Ugan...
- Struggles of the poor, landless and marginalised in protecting their rights to the land
- N. Bazaara / Civil Society and Governance Programme, IDS, 2000
- The 1998 Land Act represents one of the most important pieces of legislation in Uganda, which is predominantly an agricultural country. The role of a consortium of NGOs, The Uganda Land Alliance (ULA), is analysed in this paper, with ...
- How do sector wide approaches tackle poverty reduction objectives in Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia?
- M. Foster; S. Mackintosh-Walker / Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, ODI, 2001
- Improving the access to services by poor and marginal groups is a strong or central objective of most of the sector wide programmes reviewed in this working paper. The purpose of this paper, produced by the Overseas Development Instit...
- Will reforming and privatizing agricultural extension services meet the needs of the poor?
- J. Farrington; I. Christoplos; Andrew Kidd; M. Beckman / Overseas Development Institute, 2002
- This paper reviews pro-poor agricultural extension policies, building on an earlier inception report of the same study. Based on a livelihoods approach, the authors argue that policies towards agriculture, rural development and extens...
- Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU)
- Advocating for an end to corruption in Uganda
