Poverty and PRSPs
Poverty, Knowledge and Policy Processes: A Case Study of Ugandan National Poverty Reduction Policy
Poverty reduction processes in Uganda
Authors:
K. Brock; R. McGee; R. Ssewakiryanga
Publisher:
Institute of Development Studies, Sussex, UK, 2002
This report concerns the poverty reduction policy process in Kampala, Uganda. It describes and analyses the actors involved in policy processes at national level, the kinds of knowledge on which the processes draw, and the spaces, formal and informal, in which policy actors engage with each other. It concludes that civil society (CS) actors, and especially non-governmental organisation (NGO) poverty advocates, are at a critical juncture in Uganda today. To enhance their impact on policy, they can either remain relatively passive participants in processes into which government invites them, or can opt to exercise greater agency, act more autonomously and forge their own processes.
The report recommends that non-governmental policy actors ought to reclaim from government and its donor partners the territory of participation, and to make it more their own again, albeit in the new realm of policy. [Adapted from author]
IDS Research Report 53.
