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2. Public Expenditure Governance in the Roads Sector
- Author:
- Ramathan Ggoobi, Daniel Lukwago, and George Bogere
- Publication Date:
- 10-2020
- Content Type:
- Working Paper
- Institution:
- Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE)
- Abstract:
- This study examines how funds in the roads sub-sector were allocated and managed during the Fiscal Year 2015/16-2018/19. The aim is to assess the impact of these investments, and the effectiveness of the planning, budgeting and execution and plans and budgets in the roads sub-sector. The study was motivated by government priority tagging of the Road Sector as "fundamental" for the achievement of the Uganda Vision 2040. Consequently, the roads have claimed the largest share of the national budget over the last decade. However, Uganda's road transport network is still very small by international standards, with only 21.4 percent of the national road network paved. Only 0.4 percent and 5.6 percent of the district and urban roads respectively, are paved. Despite continuous investment in the Road Sector with an average of 17 percent of the annual national budget over the last decade, there are reports of persistent public outcry about the poor state of roads and the deteriorating quality of works being executed.
- Topic:
- Infrastructure, Governance, Public Policy, and Roads
- Political Geography:
- Uganda and Africa
3. Financing Local Governments in Uganda An analysis of the Proposed National Budget FY 2019/20 and Proposals for Re-allocation
- Author:
- Ramathan Ggoobi and Daniel Lukwago
- Publication Date:
- 01-2019
- Content Type:
- Research Paper
- Institution:
- Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE)
- Abstract:
- The Central Government is required by Article 193 of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda 1995 (as amended) to provide grants to LGs in form of unconditional, conditional and equalisation grants. However, there has been a decline in transfers from Central Government to LGs; the share of the national budget allocated to LG programs reduced to 10 percent in FY2018/19 from 13 percent in 2016/17. The decline is largely attributed to recentralisation of functions and resources that by law are mandated to LGs. Therefore, Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) with support from USAID and UKAID under the Governance, Accountability, Participation and Performance (GAPP) program commissioned this study to analyse the proposed national budget allocations for FY 2019/20 to ascertain budgetary allocations that should be implemented by the Local Governments (LGs) but retained by Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), and recommend for reallocation to LGs with a view of influencing the final budget allocations. The study relied mainly on an extensive document review of all relevant budget documents focusing mainly on the Draft Estimates of Expenditure (Recurrent and Development) FY 2019/20. Identifying budget lines meant for LGs, was done through three stages, by determining whether: budget line was relevant or not to LGs; the identified budget line could be transferred directly to the LGs or not; and the budget line could be rationalized by the MDAs to improve service delivery and also free funds for LGs. The exercise explicitly took a ‘prioritised’ approach to identify LG relevant budgets and did not exhaustively review each and every expenditure item within the national budget. The approach was to identify those sectors with decentralised functions as prescribed in the LG Act (schedule 2), which included: Agriculture, Education, Health, Social Development, Water and Environment, and Works and Transport.
- Topic:
- Governance, Budgeting, and Local Government
- Political Geography:
- Uganda and Africa
4. Public Expenditure Governance in Uganda's Agricultural Extension System
- Author:
- Annette Kuteesa, Emmanuel Keith Kisaame, Julian Barungi, and Ramathan Ggoobi
- Publication Date:
- 01-2018
- Content Type:
- Research Paper
- Institution:
- Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE)
- Abstract:
- In its quest to become a middle-income economy, Uganda has placed emphasis on improving and commercialising agriculture as one of its growth strategies in the National Development Plan (NDP II 2015/16 – 2019/20). Funding to the agricultural sector has more than doubled – rising from UGX 422 Bn in FY 2013/14 to UGX 901.68 Bn in FY 2017/18. About three-quarters of this funding has been directed towards agricultural extension, particularly, the provision of agricultural inputs to farmers. In addition, the sector has had several reforms in the provision of agricultural extension services. The most recent these reforms were the creation of the National Agricultural Advisory Services in 2001 and the switch to a single-spine agricultural extension system, which culminated into the adoption of the National Agricultural Extension Policy in October 2016. Despite the reforms and the increase in funding, the agricultural sector’s growth has stagnated and in some instances regressed over the NDP II planning period. Macroeconomic statistics from the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBoS) indicate that in fiscal year 2015/16, the agricultural sector’s share of Uganda Gross Domestic Product (at market prices) was 23.6%. This marked a 0.2% decline from the fiscal year 2014/15 share of 23.8%. As of June 2017, the agricultural sector had experienced four consecutive quarters of negative growth.
- Topic:
- Agriculture, Governance, Economy, and Public Spending
- Political Geography:
- Uganda and Africa