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
- Lessons to be learnt from post-colonialism in Africa
- M. Mamdani / International Development Centre, Open University, 2007
- This paper argues for the importance of understanding the political legacy of colonialism. Its author contends that colonialism in Africa left a legacy of dual citizenship - the civil and the customary - which reflected not different ...
- Linking war violence with political participation
- C. Blattman / Households in Conflict Network, 2008
- What is the political legacy of violent conflict? This paper presents evidence for a link between war, violence and increased individual political participation and leadership among former combatants and victims of violence, and ...
- Understanding the interaction between ICTs and local governance in Africa
- G Misuraca / International Development Research Centre, 2007
- This book presents the context, theory and current thinking on the interaction betweeen ICTs and local governance, particularly in Africa. It discusses the shift from ‘government’ to ‘e-governance,’ describes t...
- Including different actors is key to successful local economic development
- E. Wilson / Institute of Social Studies, Netherlands, 2008
- This paper describes the transformations that have taken place in the honey production and marketing in West Nile since the launch of the National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS) programme in 2001. In pursuing local economic de...
- Elites can channel community knowledge of poverty into policy
- Ursula Grant; Ingie Hovland; Zaza Curran / id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2008
- The knowledge of poverty gained from working with poor people is rarely given importance in policy debates relevant to poverty reduction. In Uganda and South Africa, local elites such as lawyers running legal aid centres could communi...
- Political competition shapes the strength of ethnic identities in Africa
- B. Eifert; E. Miguel; D.N. Posner / Afrobarometer, 2007
- This paper investigates the political source of ethnic identification in Africa. Drawing on data from 22 surveys covering 33,000 respondents across 10 African countries, the paper shows that the strength of ethnic identities in Africa...
- How should Uganda implement justice and reconciliation?
- S. Worden / United States Institute of Peace, 2008
- The Ugandan government and the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) reached agreement on the practical implementation of the Accountability and Reconciliation accord on February 18 2008 but how should Uganda procede from here? Should the justi...
- Evaluating the seven African success stories
- R.I. Rotberg / John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007
- This paper evaluates the seven presumed African success stories: Botswana, South Africa, Zambia, Ghana, Tanzania, Mozambique and Uganda. It gives a detailed analysis of the economic, political, governance and human development scenari...
- African parliaments have limited capacity to hold the executive to account
- L. Nijzink; S. Mozaffar; E. Azavedo / Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2006
- Since the early 1990s, when many African countries resumed multi-party elections and democratic practices, legislative strengthening programmes have become an important part of international assistance. Parliaments are generally regar...
- Analysing the truth behind the decline of corruption in the Ugandan education system
- P. Hubbard / Center for Global Development, USA, 2007
- This working paper examines the evidence behind the story that corruption in Uganda was terminated simply by publishing the amount of monthly grants to schools. It finds that while information did indeed play a critical role, it was n...
- Anti-Corruption Coalition Uganda (ACCU)
- Advocating for an end to corruption in Uganda
