Uganda : Local Government Development Program
The Uganda Local Government Development Program, with a credit equivalent to US$80.9 million, was implemented by the government over the period 2000-2004. The project was designed to scale up an earlier UN Capital Development Fund pilot to 30 districts (out of 56) so that policies and principles could be tested (and costed) on a larger scale and lessons learned used to develop national policy formulation within a sound fiscal framework. It had 4 objectives : (1) Test the feasibility of implementing constitutional and legal mandates with respect to decentralized service provision and devolution of the development budget through the provision of investment funds to the Local Governments; (2) Build the capacity of the Ministry of Local Government, the Local Government Finance Commission Secretariat, and a sub-set of the local governments for improved service delivery, accountability and transparency; (3) Test and institute alternative service delivery mechanisms through the private sector, beneficiary communities and other stakeholders in the Kampala City Council; (4) Monitor and evaluate project implementation for actual experience and good practices for formulating an appropriate strategy, implementation modalities, and phasing for eventual scaling-up, nationally, over time.
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| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2006-07
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| Subjects: | BEST PRACTICES, BOUNDARIES, CAPACITY BUILDING, CITY COUNCIL, COMMUNITIES, DECISION-MAKING, DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM, DOCUMENTS, DRAINAGE, E-MAIL, EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION, ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATION, GOOD PRACTICE, HOUSING, INSPECTION, LEARNING, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, LOCAL GOVERNMENT FINANCE, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, MUNICIPALITIES, POLITICAL COMMITMENT, PRIVATE SECTOR, PUBLIC PLACES, PUBLIC SERVICES, RETENTION, ROADS, SANITATION, SERVICE DELIVERY, SERVICE PROVISION, SOCIAL SERVICES, TRANSPARENCY, TRANSPORT, TRANSPORT FARES, WASTE, WASTE COLLECTION, WATER SUPPLY, |
| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2006/07/7012911/uganda-local-government-development-program https://hdl.handle.net/10986/9599 |
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| Summary: | The Uganda Local Government Development
Program, with a credit equivalent to US$80.9 million, was
implemented by the government over the period 2000-2004. The
project was designed to scale up an earlier UN Capital
Development Fund pilot to 30 districts (out of 56) so that
policies and principles could be tested (and costed) on a
larger scale and lessons learned used to develop national
policy formulation within a sound fiscal framework. It had 4
objectives : (1) Test the feasibility of implementing
constitutional and legal mandates with respect to
decentralized service provision and devolution of the
development budget through the provision of investment funds
to the Local Governments; (2) Build the capacity of the
Ministry of Local Government, the Local Government Finance
Commission Secretariat, and a sub-set of the local
governments for improved service delivery, accountability
and transparency; (3) Test and institute alternative service
delivery mechanisms through the private sector, beneficiary
communities and other stakeholders in the Kampala City
Council; (4) Monitor and evaluate project implementation for
actual experience and good practices for formulating an
appropriate strategy, implementation modalities, and phasing
for eventual scaling-up, nationally, over time. |
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