Second District Development Plan 2015/2016 – 2019/2020 (Ddpii)
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MBARARA DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT SECOND DISTRICT DEVELOPMENT PLAN 2015/2016 – 2019/2020 (DDPII) Vision “A well planned, Modern and Prosperous District within 30 years” Theme “Increasing Sustainable wealth creation through value addition and Employment opportunities”. March 2015 1 2 3 Mbarara District The vision of the District: “A well planned, modern and prosperous District by 2040” The District Mission: “To promote sustainable social economic development and effective service delivery to the people of Mbarara District.” The DDPII Goal: “To increase the quantity and quality of goods and services for improved standard of living”. The specific objectives; To ensure food security, increased household incomes, sustainable utilization of natural resources and environmental protection. To sustainably provide, operate and maintain key infrastructure network for effective and efficient service delivery. To increase accessibility to quality education, equity and retention of pupils in primary schools. To improve health standards of the people of Mbarara District in collaboration with other partners To improve both institutional and individual performance capacity through capacity building initiatives. To promote survival, protection and social inclusion of the most vulnerable members of the community. To enhance local revenue mobilization, collection, effective allocation to district priority areas and ensure transparency and accountability. 4 FOREWORD Mbarara district has continued to promote the decentralised development planning process as provided in the Local Government Act Cap 243. Section 36(3) that empowers local governments to develop their own development plans by incorporating the lower local council plans and priorities. Section 35(4) of Local Government Act (amended 2010) now requires the Local governments planning period to be the same as that of Central Government. Development Planning provides the basis for identifying development priorities and presents a framework in which development opportunities, objectives and targets are developed to realise intended outputs, outcomes and impacts. Setting appropriate policies and objectives within the available resource envelope is a process which requires participation of all stakeholders. The District has been systematically implementing the basic components of the decentralisation policy and has witnessed significant achievements in development planning and delivery of quality services since 1993. The district has registered a number of achievements during the implementation of the previous plan. Some implementation challenges were noticed and documented. These include: poverty levels which limit community participation, planning gaps, understaffing, limited financial resources, limited appreciation for data collection, analysis and poor feedback mechanism to beneficiaries, low participation of special interest groups in decision making processes, low production yields, increase in HIV/AIDS incidence rate, inadequate operation and maintenance of completed facilities and natural resource depletion. The capacity of private sector service providers to deliver quality services has remained a challenge. Poor physical infrastructure like road network has affected marketing of produce. However, district‟s focus on socio economic transformation and wealth creation at household level clearly establishes the communities as a major channel for development expenditure. Progressive growth will be realized through strengthening the district‟s competitiveness for sustainable wealth creation, empowerment, employment and inclusive growth. In this regard the district will pursue a private sector led, value addition development strategy coupled with emphasis on skills development. The Plan thus sets key objectives and targets to be attained during the 5 year period. This plan has seven objectives, namely: To ensure food security, increased household incomes, sustainable utilization of natural resources and environmental protection. To sustainably provide, operate and maintain key infrastructure network for effective and efficient service delivery To increase accessibility to quality education, equity and retention of pupils in primary schools 5 To improve health standards of the people of Mbarara District in collaboration with other partners To improve both institutional and individual performance capacity through capacity building initiatives To promote survival, protection and social inclusion of the most vulnerable members of the community To enhance local revenue mobilization, collection, effective allocation to district priority areas and ensure transparency and accountability The opportunities identified in the National Vision 2040 and the suggested approach of harnessing them by strengthening the relevant essentials to facilitate exploitation of the prospects, DDPII is focusing on wealth creation and employment from the identified growth opportunities. The Plan prioritizes four growth opportunities namely: agriculture; social services development, infrastructure development as well as value addition. The Plan therefore presents the proposed sectoral key results, objectives and interventions for the above priorities together with other enabling sectors including environment & natural resources, services industry and innovation, cooperatives and trade. The priorities under each department and sectors are interrelated and linked in provision of service delivery and local economic development as one sector cannot serve the population alone. Wealth creation and improving the physical infrastructure as well as social services provision at community level are critical to the transformation of communities. This is to express my sincere appreciation to all those who worked tirelessly to produce this plan. More importantly, I wish to appeal to all the people of Mbarara and all development partners to support the implementation of this District Development Plan 2015/16 – 2019/2020. This 5-year District Development Plan‟s theme is “Increasing Sustainable wealth creation through value addition and Employment opportunities”. ................................................ Tumusiime Deusdedit, CHAIRPERSON LCV/MDLG 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This is the second District Development Plan (DDPII) under this planning framework of preparing 5 year development plans for all Local Governments. Local Governments will continue to play a front-line role in planning, budgeting, monitoring, supervision in an effort to improve service delivery in line with the LGA Cap 243. Since 1997 to June 2010, the overall development planning framework for guiding public policy action on development and poverty reduction in Uganda has been the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) which has been replaced by the 5 year development planning framework where local governments and central government share the same planning calendar. The DDP I and II have therefore been formulated based on 5 year development planning framework since 2010/2011 financial year. This planning framework requires the district to formulate and develop a 5-year District Development Plan (DDP) in line with the National Development Plan (NDP) objectives and National Vision 2040 aspirations of “A transformed Ugandan society from a peasant to a modern and prosperous country within 30 years”. The DDP provides a strategic planning framework for the achievement of district’s socio-economic transformation and consequent development for the next five years starting Financial Year 2015/2016. Therefore the district needs to focus on promoting, coordinating and advocating for improved service delivery in all LLGs within the available resource envelope and priorities with total community involvement for sustainability. The DDP 2015/2016 - 2019/2020 gives background information, elaborate development planning process, summary of district development objectives and interventions which are in line with National Priorities. Highlighting various stakeholders in service delivery, performance review by sectors, lessons learnt, challenges faced during implementation of the previous plan 2010/2011 - 2014/2015 and strategies to overcome them. It should be noted that various stakeholders were consulted in the process while developing this plan. I wish to extend my sincere heartfelt gratitude and appreciation to Central Government and the Donor community for having provided financial and material support during the implementation of the previous plan 2010/2011 – 2014/2015 as well as continued commitment to support the 2015/2016 – 2019/2020 plan priorities. Further appreciation goes to Mbarara district technical staff and the entire council, civil society organisations and the private sector who actively participated in the review and updating this plan. As we set out to implement this development plan, we should all be mindful of our plan theme "Strengthening District’s wealth creation through infrastructure development, innovation and value addition guided by good governance". Felix Cuthbert Esoku CHIEF ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICER/MBARARA 7 Contents FOREWORD………………………….. ............................................................................................................................... 5 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT………………………… ............................................................................................................................. 7 LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS / ACRYNOMS .....................................................................................................................