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dc.contributor.authorMuriisa, Roberts Kabeba
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-24T08:57:14Z
dc.date.available2021-05-24T08:57:14Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.identifier.citationMuriisa, R. K. (2008). Decentralisation in Uganda: prospects for improved service delivery. Africa Development, 33(4).en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir.must.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/841
dc.description.abstractSince the 1980s, many Sub-Saharan African countries have been undergoing structural reforms with a view to promoting efficient service delivery. Decentralisation, defined as the transfer of authority from central to local governments to perform certain duties, is seen as one of the public sector reform strategies to increase service delivery. Decentralisation in Uganda began in 1986 with the coming into power of the National Resistance Movement, which aimed at promoting democracy and enhancing local participation. In Uganda, political decentralization developed along with financial decentralisation. The goal of political decentralisation was to promote people’s participation in the democratic process of Uganda. This took the form of Administrative Units – Resistance Councils (RC)1 running from the village to district levels. Financial decentralisation, on the other hand, attempted to assign responsibilities and taxes between the Centre and local governments, to enable the transfer of grants and other resources to different parts of the country, and to improve service delivery. This paper will review different government, public and academic documents as well as findings of other researches such as UN reports about decentralisation and service delivery in Uganda. Based on these sources the paper will answer the following questions: to what extent does decentralisation increase service delivery? To what extent does decentralisation increase efficiency, participation, accountability and effectiveness? What are the challenges of implementing decentralization in Uganda?en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherAfrica Developmenten_US
dc.subjectDecentralisationen_US
dc.subjectAccountabilityen_US
dc.subjectEfficiencyen_US
dc.subjectEconomyen_US
dc.subjectEffectivenessen_US
dc.subjectperformanceen_US
dc.titleDecentralization in Uganda: Prospects for Improved Service Deliveryen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US


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