A Market-Based Approach to Capacity Development : How Uganda's Local Governments are Breaking New Ground
For many developing countries, capacity development means donor-sponsored training programs and outside experts. But a noteworthy example in Uganda shows that capacity development may work better and be more sustainable when local market forces are...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/06/11900519/market-based-approach-capacity-development-ugandas-local-governments-breaking-new-ground http://hdl.handle.net/10986/9570 |
| Summary: | For many developing countries, capacity
development means donor-sponsored training programs and
outside experts. But a noteworthy example in Uganda shows
that capacity development may work better and be more
sustainable when local market forces are unleashed to
provide for local capacity needs. The Uganda case spotlights
an approach supported by the World Bank and other partners
that has focused on improving the capacities of
Uganda's local governments, which since the 1990s have
been part of one of Africa's most ambitious
decentralization processes. In that program, Uganda's
ministry of local government has used World Bank and other
donor financing to create a set of incentives aimed at
improving the performance of the country's local
governments. Part of the approach was not only a system to
reward high-performing local governments, but actions aimed
at stimulating both supply and demand for capacity
development at the local level. |
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