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
- Women's engagement with political parties in Africa
- J. Ahikire / Centre for Policy Studies, South Africa, 2010
- This paper reviews and reflects on the experience of women’s political engagement in contemporary Uganda after the introduction of multiparty competitive elections in 2006. While the paper explores the recent political changes i...
- Enhancing the potential of ICTs for advancing democracy and empowerment in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda
- Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, 2009
- Access to and the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) have been shown to have the potential to help bring about economic development, poverty reduction, and democratisation. This report examines the pot...
- Collective action on the environment offers lessons in Uganda
- B. Twesigye / South African Institute of International Affairs, 2008
- This paper highlights the role played by citizens who launched a campaign to prevent Uganda’s celebrated natural forest, the Mabira Central Forest Reserve, from being donated to a private sugar-growing and processing company. Th...
- Why do anti-corruption commissions fail?
- A. Doig; D. Watt; R. Williams / U4 Anti-Corruption Resource Centre, 2005
- This paper suggests that the widespread lack of ‘success’ of anti-corruption commissions (ACCs) is intimately connected to how they are funded by donors and governments and what donors and governments expect of them. The f...
- Pro-poor strategies for financing and delivering health services in mixed health systems
- D Donika; S Sealy; S Bergkvist / Results for Development Institute, 2009
- In their efforts to improve health systems, developing countries face the challenge of integrating traditional government health resources with a large and growing private health sector, where many poor people seek care. In these &ldq...
- Making politics work to reduce extreme forms of poverty
- Sam Hickey / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
- There is a growing recognition of the importance of politics in shaping poverty reduction efforts in developing countries. But current development thinking and practice may be failing the poorest groups. What forms of politics lead to...
- The logic of political decay and reconstruction in Uganda and Zimbabwe
- E. A. Brett / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
- Civil war, authoritarian rule, falling incomes, poverty, widespread corruption has made life for many Africans difficult today than it was at the end of colonial rule. This long-term crisis generated a sequence of theoretical discussi...
- Global war on terror represses civil society in Western and developing nations
- Jude Howell; Armine Ishkanian; Ebenezer Obadare / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2009
- In Uzbekistan, many non-governmental organisations (NGOs) have closed. In Kazakhstan, the President has warned NGOs not to interfere in local affairs. In Nigeria, members of ethnic-based organisations are in jail. In Uganda, peace ini...
- What can African governments do about failed ‘globalisation?’
- Thandika Mkandawire / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Globalisation in Africa has failed. Not because, as is traditionally argued, African governments haven’t adopted the right structural adjustment policies (SAPs), or because their effects take time to show. Structural adjustment h...
- Non-state justice systems in East Africa region
- C. Nyamu-Musembi / Department for International Development, UK, 2003
- This report focuses on non-formal justice systems in the East Africa region, and is based on a review of relevant experience in three East African countries: Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania. It aims to help a better understanding of the ra...
- Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU)
- Advocating for an end to corruption in Uganda
