The Role of Local Governments in Promoting Local Economic Development in Uganda
While Uganda has a long history of decentralized service delivery, and has instituted Local Economic Development (LED) as an additional mandate for local governments (LGs), there has been less progress in operationalizing the concept and practicall...
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| Format: | Report |
| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2016
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/656141478627776529/Uganda-Repositioning-local-governments-for-economic-growth http://hdl.handle.net/10986/25359 |
| Summary: | While Uganda has a long history of
decentralized service delivery, and has instituted Local
Economic Development (LED) as an additional mandate for
local governments (LGs), there has been less progress in
operationalizing the concept and practically implementing it
across LGs in Uganda. In addition to their basic service
delivery functions enshrined in the Local Governments Act of
1997, since 2006 LGs are also mandated by various policy
documents to play a role in wealth creation, and increasing
citizens’ income levels. While the Government of Uganda
(GoU)’s LED Policy does outline the strategic intervention
areas that LGs should implement, there is still considerable
confusion among LG staff as to what this entails on a day to
day basis and there has been limited progress in
implementation. At the request of the MoLG, the World Bank,
therefore, commissioned this assignment in support of the
Government of Uganda (GoU's) efforts to improve the
capacities of LGs for promoting LED. The study focused on
assessing three localities (Jinja Municipality, and Arua and
Nwoya Districts), both in terms of their local economic
potentials and enabling environment for business, as well as
in terms of the institutional and policy context for
promoting LED. The study used quantitative methodologies, to
identify promising economic sectors in the three localities,
as well as qualitative methodologies to identify the main
constraints that those sectors currently face. |
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