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Lira District Local Government Councils' Scorecard FY 2018/19 lirA DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT council SCORECARD assessment FY 2018/19 lira DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT council SCORECARD assessment FY 2018/19 L-R: Ms. Rose Gamwera, Secretary General ULGA; Mr. Ben Kumumanya, PS. MoLG and Dr. Arthur Bainomugisha, Executive Director ACODE in a group photo with award winners at the launch of the 8th Local Government Councils Scorecard Report FY 2018/19 at Hotel Africana in Kampala on 10th March 2020 with 89 parishes and 751 villages. By 1.0 Introduction 2020, Lira’s population is projected to be This brief was developed from the scorecard at 465,900; 230,400 male and 248,100 report titled, “The Local Government female (UBOS, 2018). Councils Scorecard FY 2018/19. The Next Big Steps: Consolidating Gains of Decentralisation and Repositioning the 1.2 The Local Government Councils Local Government Sector in Uganda”. Scorecard Initiative (LGCSCI) The brief provides key highlights of the The main building blocks in LGCSCI are performance of elected leaders and the principles and core responsibilities of Council of Lira District Local Government Local Governments as set out in Chapter during the FY2018/19. 11 of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda, the Local Governments Act (CAP 1.1 Brief about the district 243) under Section 10 (c), (d) and (e). The scorecard comprises of five parameters Lira district is located in the northern part based on the core responsibilities of of Uganda; bordered by Dokolo district in the local government Councils, District the south, Apac district and Kole district in Chairpersons, Speakers and Individual the west, Pader district and Otuke district Councillors. These are classified into in the north and Alebtong district in the five categories: Financial management east. The district has two counties, 9 sub and oversight; Political functions and counties, 4 divisions and one municipality representation; Legislation and related Phoebe Atukunda Kirungyi • Claudia1 Apio • Chealcious Angom lirA DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT council SCORECARD assessment FY 2018/19 functions; Development planning and under the parameters on accountability, constituency servicing and Monitoring planning and budgeting. The shortfalls service delivery. The parameters are were attributed to the insufficient evidence broken down into quantitative and provided to justify claims of activities qualitative indicators. Separate scorecards implemented. Figure 1 presents details of are produced for the Chairperson, the Council’s performance. Speaker, individual Councillors, and the Figure 1: Performance of Lira District District Council as a whole. Council on Key Parameters Relative The major rationale of the LGCSCI is to National and Regional Average to induce elected political leaders and Performances representative organs to deliver on their electoral promises, improve public service delivery, ensure accountability and promote good governance through periodic assessments. 1.3 Methodology The 2018/19 LGCSCI assessment used face-to-face structured interviews, civic engagement meetings, documentary review, key informant interviews, field visits and photography to collect the relevant data. The assessment was conducted Source: Local Government Councils Assessment FY 2018/19 between July and September 2019. A total of 30 elected leaders (28 District 2.2 Performance of the Lira District Councillors, Chairperson and Speaker) Chairperson and Council were assessed. Chairman Alex Oremo Alot was the political head of Lira district during the period under review. He subscribed to the UPC party. 2.0 Results of the Assessment Chairman Alot was serving his third term 2.1 Performance of Lira District in office as the Chairperson for Lira district. Council Overall, Chairman Alot obtained 84 out of Lira District Council comprised 30 100 points placing him in position 3 out of members (18 male and 12 female) the 33 district chairpersons assessed. He including the District Chairperson and exhibited a commendable performance Speaker of Council. In terms of political under his legislative function, contact constitution the greater part of Lira council with electorate and initiation of projects. (19) subscribed to the UPC party, followed His weakest performance was exhibited by 8 subscribed to the ruling NRM party. under the parameter of monitoring service The minority were DP (1) and Independent delivery. This was as a result of failure (2). Overall, Lira District Council emerged to meet the threshold of visiting at least number 16 out of the 35 district councils half of the service delivery points in the assessed with a total score of 66 out of district and insufficient evidence to justify 100 points. While the council performed outcomes of follow up. relatively well under the parameters on legislative role and monitoring service delivery, it registered a weaker performance 2 lirA DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT council SCORECARD assessment FY 2018/19 Figure 2: Lira District Chairperson’s 2.4 Performance of Lira District Performance in relation to National Councillors and Regional Scores Overall, the performance of the district councillors was fair with a combined average score of just 65 out of 100 points. Over half of the councillors scored below the average mark. The councillors performed better on monitoring of service delivery. Generally, the male councillors performed better than their female counterparts with all the top 5 performers being male. Source: Local Government Councils Scorecard Assessment FY Figure 4: Lira District Councillors’ 2018/19 Performance in relation to National and Regional Scores 2.3 Performance of the Speaker of Lira District Council The Speaker of Council during the year under review was Hon. George Rashid Opio. He subscribes to the UPC party and was serving his second term of office representing the people of Ojwina Div. The Speaker registered good performance under the parameters on contact with Source: Local Government Councils Assessment FY 2018/19 electorate and monitoring service delivery. The low scores under participation in 3.0 Critical Factors Affecting Lower Local Governments (LLGs) were Performance attributed to insufficient evidence to 3.1 Factors Enabling Performance substantiate claims of having met the threshold of attending four council sittings .. Good working relationship between in the Sub County he represents. the two arms of the district: There were collaborative efforts between the technical officers and the committees Figure 3: The Speaker of Council’s of council with some committee Performance in relation to National members being transported by and Regional Average Scores the technical officials during their monitoring activities. .. Availability of monitoring reports: The research team was able to obtain monitoring reports from all councillors. This contributed to an average score of 33 points for the councillors in terms of monitoring service delivery hence the best performing district in this parameter. This was attributed to provision of fuel every month to each Source: Local Government Councils Assessment FY 2018/19 3 lirA DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT council SCORECARD assessment FY 2018/19 individual councillor to enable them .. Failure to engage in lower local perform their monitoring role. governments: Majority of the councillors did not meet the threshold .. Coordinating centers: All councillors of participating in at least 4 LLG had coordinating centers within their Council meetings. Some meetings in areas of jurisdiction given that 95% sub-counties had conflicting schedules of them reside in their electoral area. with district council meetings while Even the councillors representing others did not provide minutes to Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) had substantiate claims by councillors designated offices within Lira town in of having engaged their lower local addition to those in their residences. councils. 3.2 Factors Hindering Performance 4.0 Recommendations • The district leadership should .. Induction of newly elected strengthen orientation and training Councillors for Special Interest for councillors: This can be achieved Groups (Workers, Older Persons): by partnering with Civil Society Due to lack of resources, both the Organisations like ACODE in cases ministry of local government and the where resources cannot be mobilised local governments have not been able by the district. The trainings should to adequately induct new councillors be at least once in a financial year. who were elected in the year under Such trainings should be thematic to review (workers’ representatives and cover aspects like (i) the Legislative older persons). These councillors had roles, (ii)contact with the electorate, not received induction on what they (iii) participation in the lower local are supposed to do in council which government, (iv)monitoring service affected their performance. delivery on national priority programme .. Untimely production of minutes: areas, (v)rules of procedure, among This was attributed to the fact that others. It is also important that the role of Clerk to Council is an refresher courses be organized to assigned role. The officers assigned provide other relevant information and the responsibility of Clerks to Councils skills to councillors. equally have other demanding • Standardise follow ups after responsibilities which they seemed monitoring: Council should introduce to give more priority hence a delay in a standard for follow ups by councillors production of council minutes. and district leaders just like it has .. Insufficient follow-up by
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