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
- Making the most of community based worker systems for effective service delivery
- P. Mbullu / The African Institute for Community-Driven Development (Khanya-aicdd), 2007
- Many communities in Africa are largely dependent on services provided by local people rather than by external agencies, including government. Such services include traditional birth attendants, traditional healers, farmer to farmer ex...
- Reforming Africa's power sector
- UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2007
- This study assesses the sustainability of power sector in Africa by examining the socio-economic and environmental impacts of power sector reforms in 14 countries in the region. It uses the results of the assessment to determine the e...
- Resistance to decentralisation in Uganda
- S Steiner / German Institute of Global and Area Studies, 2006
- It is often claimed that decentralisation is effective for the reduction of poverty due to inherent opportunities for higher popular participation and increased efficiency in public service delivery. However, based on a qualitative as...
- PETS: a silver bullet solution?
- G. Sundet / Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007
- This briefing look at the effectiveness of Public Expenditure Tracking Surveys (PETS). It particularly focuses on the PETS in Tanzania but also makes references to the way in which PETS worked in Uganda. Despite anti-corrup...
- Lessons in governance reform from Brazil, India and Uganda
- Mark Robinson / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Brazil, India and Uganda provide good examples of successful governance reforms. Politicians must be committed to the reform process. Those who design and manage the reforms must have the necessary skills. They must not be unduly infl...
- Decentralisation: rhetoric and reality
- J. C. Ribot; A. Agrawal; A. M. Carlson / Elsevier, 2006
- This paper shows how central governments in six countries—Senegal, Uganda, Nepal, Indonesia, Bolivia, and Nicaragua—use a variety of strategies to obstruct the democratic decentralisation of resource management and, hence,...
- Congolese refugees in Uganda reflect on ethnicity and citizenship
- Christina R. Clark / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- Ethnic divisions and disputes over entitlement to citizenship have fuelled prolonged conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Uganda officially hosts 17,000 Congolese refugees, but the actual figure is much higher because many do...
- Are countries meeting their commitments to preserve, protect and restore forest biodiversity?
- M. Lovera; S. Gauntlett, (ed); A. Laletin, (ed) / Convention on Biological Diversity, 2008
- This paper assesses what progress different countries have made over recent years on preserving, protecting and restoring forest biological diversity. Specifically, the report presents the findings of research undertaken in 22 countri...
- Outsourcing agricultural advisory services: lessons learned from sub-Saharan Africa
- W. Heemskerk; S. Nederlof; B. Wennink / Royal Tropical Institute, 2008
- A pluralistic advisory service system is already a fact of life for many farmers in Africa. Over the last few years, outsourcing has become increasingly important in several sub-Saharan African countries and this bulletin takes the op...
- District creation for patronage in Uganda
- E. Green / Crisis States Research Centre, LSE, 2008
- Within the vast literature on decentralisation, there is little attention on one important aspect of decentralisation – namely the creation of new sub-national administrative units. This despite the fact that governments of deve...
- Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU)
- Advocating for an end to corruption in Uganda
