LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS PERFORMANCE and PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY in UGANDA Luwero District Council Score-Card Report 2009/10
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LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA Luwero District Council Score-Card Report 2009/10 Lillian Muyomba-Tamale Eugene Gerald Ssemakula Christopher Musisi John Segujja Naomi Asimo 1 ACODE Policy Research Series No. 50, 2011 LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA: Luwero District Council Score-Card Report 2009/10 LOCALGOVERNMENT COUNCILS PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA Local Government Councils Performance and Public Service Delivery in Uganda: Luwero District Council Score- Card Report 2009/10 Lillian Muyomba-Tamale Eugene Gerald Ssemakula Christopher Musisi John Segujja Naomi Asimo i LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA: Luwero District Council Score-Card Report 2009/10 Published by ACODE P. O. Box 29836, Kampala Email: [email protected], [email protected] Website: http://www.acode-u.org Citation: Muyomba-Tamale, L., et.al (2011). Local Government Councils’ Performance and Public Service Delivery in Uganda: Luwero District Council Score-Card Report 2009/10. ACODE Policy Research Series, No. 50, 2011. Kampala. © ACODE 2011 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher. ACODE policy work is supported by generous donations and grants from bilateral donors and charitable foundations. The reproduction or use of this publication for academic or charitable purpose or for purposes of informing public policy is excluded from this restriction. ISBN 9789970070114 ii LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA: Luwero District Council Score-Card Report 2009/10 TABLE OF CONTENTS LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES ................................................................................................ v ABBREVIATIONS........................................................................................................................... vi ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS............................................................................................................... vii EXECUTIVE SUMMARY............................................................................................................... viii 1. INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................. 1 2. METHODOLOGY.............................................................................................................. 2 2.2 The Building Blocks for the Indicators: What is assessed?........................................... 2 2.2 The Building Blocks for the Indicators: What is assessed?........................................... 3 2.3 Score-card Assessment Methodology.............................................................................. 4 3. DISTRICT BACKGROUND............................................................................................ 6 3.1 Geopolitics and Demographic Characteristics .............................................................. 6 3.2 Political and Administrative Units................................................................................... 7 4. SELECTED SOCIO-ECONOMIC INDICATORS....................................................... 8 4.1 Primary Education.............................................................................................................. 8 4.2 Health Sector........................................................................................................................ 10 4.3 Agriculture and NAADS................................................................................................... 11 4.4 Water and Sanitation.......................................................................................................... 12 4.5 Road Network ..................................................................................................................... 13 4.6 Environment and Natural Resources............................................................................... 14 4.7 Luwero District efforts to address key service delivery challenges............................ 14 5. BUDGET AND REVENUE ARCHITECTURE OF LUWERO LOCAL GOVERNMENT.................................................................................................. 20 5.1 Sources of revenue for Luwero District........................................................................... 20 5.2 Intra-sector Budget Allocations and Implications for Service Delivery...................... 22 6. SCORE-CARD FINDINGS AND INTERPRETATION............................................... 23 6.1 The District Chairperson.................................................................................................... 23 6.2 District Speaker.................................................................................................................... 25 6.3 Luwero Local Government Council................................................................................ 26 6.4 District Councilors............................................................................................................. 28 7. LUWERO DISTRICT PERFORMANCE AND QUALITY OF PUBLIC SERVICES.......................................................................................................... 34 7.1 Introduction ........................................................................................................................ 34 7.2 Internal Factors................................................................................................................... 34 7.3 External Factors ................................................................................................................. 34 8. IMPACT FROM THE FIRST ASSESSMENT............................................................... 37 8.1 Contact with the electorate............................................................................................... 37 iii LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA: Luwero District Council Score-Card Report 2009/10 8.2 Improved record keeping a council level........................................................................ 37 9. GENERAL CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS..................................... 38 9.1 Conclusion .......................................................................................................................... 38 9.2 Recommendations.............................................................................................................. 38 REFERENCES................................................................................................................................. 41 ANNEXES........................................................................................................................................ 43 Annex 1:List of Political Leaders and Councilors in Luwero District.................................... 43 Annex 2: FGD GUIDE............................................................................................................... 44 Annex 3: Score-Cards...................................................................................................................... 46 Publications in this Series.............................................................................................................. 60 iv LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA: Luwero District Council Score-Card Report 2009/10 LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES Figure 1: Structure of District Local Governments in Uganda Figure 2: Key Aspects of the Local Government Councils’ Performance Figure 3: Trends in PLE Performance for Luwero District 2001 -2009 Figure 4: Kikunyu COU PS in Butuntumula Sub-county Figure 5: Wobusana HC III in Kikyusa Sub-county Figure 6: Kikokko village, Makulubita Sub-county Figure 7: Nakisibyaki – Mpumudde road in Bwetyaba village Figure 8: Budget analysis over 2 financial years Figure 9: Sectoral allocations for FY 2008/09 Figure 10: Budget allocations by sector for FY 2009/10 Figure 11: Kikunyu COU PS Figure 12: Level of education Figure 13: Gender and level of education Figure 14: Political Party Affiliation Figure 15: Number of terms served Figure 16: Debate on issues of environment and service delivery Table 1: Population Projections Table 2: Demographic Indicators and Functional Age Groups Table 3: Secretaries of Council Sectoral Committees Table 4: Access and quality enhancement indicators Table 5: Key health indicators Table 6: Key indicators for water services in Luwero District 2010 Table 7: Key issues discussed in Luwero District Council in FY 2009/10 Table 8: Performance of Luwero District councilors disaggregated by gender v LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA: Luwero District Council Score-Card Report 2009/10 ABBREVIATIONS ACODE Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment CAO Chief Administrative Officer CBO Community Based Organization CSO Civil Society Organization DCC District Contact Committee DDP District Development Plan DP Democratic Party DSC District Service Commission ENR Environment and Natural Resources FAL Functional Adult Literacy FDC Forum for Democratic Change FGD Focus Group Discussion FY Financial Year HC Health Centre LC Local Council LG Local Government LGA Local Government Act LGCSC Local Government