Local democracy and public accountability in Uganda: The need for organisational learning

Kyohairwe, Stella

doi:10.5130/cjlg.v0i0.4064

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“…Among the methods the key informants in this study recommend as appropriate for holding public leaders accountable include; performance scoring, public dialogues or commonly known as the "baraza". Indeed, Kyohairwe (2014) underscored the importance of barazas in promoting local democracy and public accountability in Uganda's local government system of administration. Fortunately, in 2009, Tumushabe et al (2010) launched a 10 years initiative to performance of Uganda's Local Government Councils.…”

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Healthcare Evidence-Based Management: Towards Overcoming its Barriers in Uganda’s Local Government Healthcare System

Asaku¹

2018

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This article identifies local barriers and potential promoters of healthcare evidence-based management decision-making in Uganda's local government context. It puts to local context feasible measures for increasing research evidence utilization by healthcare decision-makers, as part of the efforts to make research more beneficial to intended users, and ultimate recipients of the services. The findings were a result of a cross-sectional semi-structured questionnaire survey of 225 clustered healthcare authorities 1 in Arua District Local Government, West Nile Sub-region of Uganda. The survey data were triangulated with nine key informant interviews (KIIs). Analysis reveals existence of multiple barriers at individual, organizational and system's levels of the local government healthcare management. Standing out prominently were barriers related to attitude, perceptions and beliefs of healthcare managers, dissemination, accessibility, communication, participation, engagement, capacity, knowledge, skills, cost, time, staffing, workload, leadership, policy enforcement, and culture. Other barriers related to researchers were their competence, authority and level of mutual trust. Fortunately, most of these barriers are consistent with those reported previously by other studies in developing countries. Through a critical logical analysis, recommended strategies for increasing utilization of research evidence were combined into five broad categories; stakeholders' engagement and participation, contextualized dissemination, capacity building, local leadership and democracy, and knowledge marketing, awareness and visibility. Again, these are not naïve, but important is the manner and details in which they have been contextualized. Hence, this article adds to existing knowledge about multifactorial contextual nature of barriers and promoters of research evidence utilization, and the importance of action research in providing evidence for improving quality of healthcare service delivery.

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Healthcare Evidence-Based Management: Towards Overcoming its Barriers in Uganda’s Local Government Healthcare System

Asaku¹

2018

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“…Kyohairwe (2014) provides that participatory governance in nearby democracy is a community-pushed method to duty. In Uganda, for instance, public conferences are held on the village stage to planned at the appropriation of public sources.…”

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“…Therefore, public partnerships are essential to finding answers to social questions (Fung, 2015;Lees-Marshment, 2015). Kyohairwe (2014) provides that participatory governance in nearby democracy is a community-pushed method to duty. In Uganda, for instance, public conferences are held on the village stage to planned at the appropriation of public sources.…”

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Enhancing Public Participation in Governance for Sustainable Development: Evidence From Bungoma County, Kenya

2022

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The use of PP in government policy formulation, decision making as well as the implementation of government programs has been embraced by many countries in the world. Kenya is among the recent developing economies that legally adopted PP through the promulgation of the new constitution a decade ago that ushered in PP. Despite this, its efficiency has staggered as information regarding public involvement in governance is still limited. We present the analysis of challenges facing the integration of public participation in governance and their impact on sustainable development. We use primary data from Bungoma County in Kenya, and SEM techniques that encompassed the CFA test to validate variables, path analysis to model perceived underlying direction of causality amid the constructs, and impact estimation using the coefficient estimator of SEM regression. The study finds PP significantly impacting on governance for H1, public participation meaningfully influences sustainable development (SD) for H2, governance considerably moderates the PP-SD relationship for H3, and the PP-Governance interaction process substantially supports SD. The study recommends consolidation of public awareness through civic education to strengthen understanding of their civil role in governance, timely notice as well as equitable facilitation in attending government development forums. Further, in enhancing PP functionality, the study suggests institutionalization by establishing the Office of Public Participation Rapporteur (OPP) responsible for collecting citizen and leaders’ views, and implementation of associated policies and regulations.

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“…Anti-corruption and good governance strategies have been set at national level under the MWE including establishment of a Good Governance Working Group (MWE 2016) and complaint handling mechanisms through a regulatory status revised clients charter (MWE 2018a(MWE , 2018b. At the community level, several social accountability initiatives have been implemented including 'Baraza' public meeting programmes (Kyohairwe 2014), score card reports (Care 2013), and crowd-sourcing ICT initiatives (Grossman et al 2018;Van Campenhout et al 2018).…”

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A de jure study of social accountability for water and sanitation services in Uganda

Nansubuga

Smith

Jeffrey

2022

Journal of Water, Sanitation and Hygiene for Development

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The provision and sustainability of water and sanitation services in many countries is compromised by poor accountability for investment and maintenance programmes. Previous work has largely been concerned with processes, tools, and initiatives which support wider accountability without considering the ways in which accountability is formalised in law and regulations. We use a structured content analysis of 17 legislative and policy documents from Uganda to identify the evidence for de jure accountability across 21 key water and sanitation functions using the following four accountability themes: rules, process, and standards; responsibilities and duties; performance monitoring; and corrective measures, incentives, and sanctions. Results indicate that there is a strong provision for accountability across two of the four themes but also weaknesses relating to lack of complaint mechanisms, limited stakeholder engagement in regulation formulation, and weak performance monitoring. These findings are contextualised by reference to previous work in the field with particular emphasis on the discontinuities between legal requirements and local initiatives.

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Local democracy and public accountability in Uganda: The need for organisational learning

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Cited by 8 publications

References 3 publications

Healthcare Evidence-Based Management: Towards Overcoming its Barriers in Uganda’s Local Government Healthcare System

Healthcare Evidence-Based Management: Towards Overcoming its Barriers in Uganda’s Local Government Healthcare System

Enhancing Public Participation in Governance for Sustainable Development: Evidence From Bungoma County, Kenya

A de jure study of social accountability for water and sanitation services in Uganda

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