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Decentralization and development: Emerging issues from Uganda's experience

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  • Okidi, John A.
  • Guloba, Madina

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The current decentralization in Uganda originated in the late 1980s as part of a broader effort to restore state credibility and deepen democracy following several years of political and economic turmoil. Using a detailed legal framework Uganda entrenched political, administrative and fiscal decentralization as a strategy for broad-based growth with poverty reduction. in this paper we review Uganda's decentralization with the objective of highlighting several issues including empowerment of local leaders and residents, experience with local elite capture, improvement of service delivery, promotion of real sector response to improved economic environment, and enhancement of progress towards the MDGs. Our review of the achievements and challenges of Uganda's decentralization illustrates the much discussed issue on the literature that there are levels of decentralization that are consistent with certain levels of economic and democratic development.

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  • Okidi, John A. & Guloba, Madina, 2006. "Decentralization and development: Emerging issues from Uganda's experience," Occasional Papers 93810, Economic Policy Research Centre (EPRC).
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:eprcop:93810
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.93810
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    1. Michael Bernard Kwesi Darkoh & Mary Njeri Kinyanjui, 2015. "Industrialization and Rural Development in the Anglophone African Countries," Journal of Developing Societies, , vol. 31(3), pages 358-384, September.
    2. Patience Kushaba & Dr. Henry Noel, 2021. "Decentralization and Service Delivery in the Health Sector of Kakanju Sub-County, Bushenyi District Local Government," International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science, International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS), vol. 5(09), pages 594-602, September.
    3. World Bank, 2013. "Service Delivery with More Districts in Uganda : Fiscal Challenges and Opportunities for Reforms," World Bank Publications - Reports 16012, The World Bank Group.
    4. Independent Evaluation Group, 2008. "Decentralization in Client Countries : An Evaluation of World Bank Support, 1990-2007," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 6543, December.
    5. Nicol, Alan & Odinga, W., "undated". "IWRM [Integrated Water Resources Management] in Uganda - progress after decades of implementation," Papers published in Journals (Open Access) H047822, International Water Management Institute.

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