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Book | Leiden University catalogue |
Title: | Issues in social development and local governance in Uganda |
Editors: | Awortwi, Nicholas Okwany, Auma |
Year: | 2010 |
Pages: | 285 |
Language: | English |
City of publisher: | Maastricht |
Publisher: | Shaker Publishing |
ISBN: | 9789042303980 |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | decentralization local government social development public services |
Abstract: | Local governance and decentralization are policy instruments commonly advocated for improving basic service provision and acceleration of widespread social development. While there are solid theoretical arguments to support this proposition, the empirical evidence often does not. The gap between the policy objectives of decentralization and the outcome of service delivery is attributed to local governments' lack of human, financial and technical resources, and greater propensity to corruption and elite capture. The papers in this collective volume put these issues into perspective in the Ugandan context. Contents: Bringing services closer to the people? Explaining the proliferation of local government districts in Uganda (Nicholas Awortwi, A.H.J. (Bert) Helmsing and Emmanuel Oyuku-Ocen) - Does sequence of decentralisation matter in the promotion of local self-governance? A comparative study of decentralisation trajectories of Ghana and Uganda (Nicholas Awortwi) - Manifestation of corruption-poverty nexus: a study of Kampala City Council (Lawrence Tweheyo and Alfred Twinamatsiko) - Universal primary education and social exclusion in Kenya and Uganda (Auma Okwany) - Extending downwards: universalising early childhood development in Uganda (Arthur Muhangi and Auma Okwany) - Rethinking the role of the State in health care financing: can community-based health insurance show the way? (Mugisha M. Mutabazi and Firminus Mugumya) - Little voices, loud actions: learning from experiences of children in confronting ill-health in rural Uganda (James Wasika Mangeni Byanasaye) - Justice on trial: children and the law in Uganda (Eddy J. Walakira) - Gender dynamics, conflict and food insecurity: lessons from northern and eastern Uganda (Eric Awich Ochen, Paul Bukuluki and Firminus Mugumya). [ASC Leiden abstract] |