kabarole DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT council SCORECARD assessment FY 2018/19 kabarole 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 Portal and Bunyangabu. As of 2020, Uganda Bureau 1.0 Introduction of Statistics (UBOS) projects the total population of This brief report was developed from the Advocates Kabalore district to be at 337,800 (Males: 169,200 Coalition for Development and Environment and Females: 168,600)1 (ACODE) scorecard report titled, “The Local 1.2 The Local Government Councils Government Councils Scorecard FY 2018/19. Scorecard Initiative (LGCSCI) The Next Big Steps: Consolidating Gains of Decentralisation and Repositioning the Local The main building blocks in LGCSCI are the principles Government Sector in Uganda.” The brief report and core responsibilities of Local Governments provides key highlights of the performance of as set out in Chapter 11 of the Constitution of the elected leaders and the Council of Kabarole District Republic of Uganda, the Local Governments Act Local Government during FY 2018/19. (CAP 243) under Section 10 (c), (d) and (e). The scorecard is made up of five parameters based on 1.1 Brief about the District the core responsibilities of the local government Kabarole District lies on the foothills of the snow- Councils, District Chairpersons, Speakers and capped Mount Ruwenzori. During colonial times, Individual Councillors. These are classified into five the Governor of then Uganda protectorate used to categories: Financial management and oversight; sit in Kabarole town. Fort Portal municipality is the Political functions and representation; Legislation main town of Kabarole. Initially, the district consisted and related functions; Development planning and of the present day Kasese, Bundibugyo, Ntoroko, constituency servicing and Monitoring service Kamwenge, Kyenjojo, Kyegegwa and until recently, delivery. Bunyangabu districts. Kabarole is ethnically diverse. Inhabitants of the district include: Bakonzo, Bamba, 1 UBOS, 2019 Projected District Population by age and Sex. Extracted from http://www.ubos_04_2019District_Projected Bakiga and the majority Batooro. The District is _population_by_single_age_and_sex (2015-2025).xls. Accessed composed of 3 counties, namely; Burahya, Fort- on 13 March, 2020. Prof. Winstons Muhwezi • Richard Tusiime1 • Fred Kasalirwe • Mugarra David kabarole DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT council SCORECARD assessment FY 2018/19 The parameters are broken down into quantitative out of 100 points. The District Council’s performance and qualitative indicators. Separate scorecards are was far much higher than the regional average produced for the Chairperson, Speaker, individual score of 59 out of 100 points and the national Councillors, and the District Council as a whole. average performance of 62 out of 100 points. The The major rationale of the Local Government Kabarole District Council did not only emerge as Councils Score-Card Initiative (LGCSCI) is to induce the best performing council in western region, but elected political leaders and representative organs also in the country (out of the 35 assessed district of a district council to deliver on their electoral councils). Suffice to note was that Kabarole District promises, improve public service delivery, ensure Council registered the best performance in 3 out accountability and promote good governance of 4 parameters which included; accountability, through periodic assessments. monitoring service delivery and, planning and budgeting at 21 out of 25 points, 20 out of 20 points 1.3 Methodology and 27 out of 30 points respectively. Despite the The FY 2018/19 LGCSCI assessment used face- remarkable performance in the above mentioned to-face structured interviews, civic engagement parameters, Kabalore District Council did not have meetings, documents’ review, key informant any public hearings which undermined performance interviews, field visits and photography to under legislation. Details of the performance of collect the relevant data. The assessment was Kabarole District Council are summarized in Table conducted between July to September 2019. A 1. total of 36 elected leaders (34 District Councillors, 2.2 Performance of the District Chairperson and Speaker of Council) and Council Chairperson were assessed. Hon. Richard Rwabuhinga of the ruling NRM political party was the District Chairperson of Kabarole 2.0 Results of the Assessment District during the FY 2018/19. He was serving his second term as District Chairperson. The District This section highlights the performance of Council, Chairperson exhibited excellent performance Chairperson, Speaker and Councillors of Kabarole registering an improvement from 90 out of 100 District Local Government during the FY 2018/19. points scored in the FY 2016/17, to 96 out of 100 2.1 Performance of Kabarole District points in the current assessment. Figure 2 shows a Council summary of his performance. With these scores, the District Chairperson emerged not only as the best in The assessment of council focused on: execution the country (out of the 33 assessed chairpersons) of the legislative function; accountability; planning but also as in the western region (out of the 11 and budgeting and monitoring service delivery. assessed districts). Overall, the Chairperson During the year under review, Kabarole District performed well across all parameters with the Council registered a tremendous improvement best performance arising from providing political in performance scoring 87 out of 100 points, an leadership, contacting the electorate, initiating improvement from the previous assessment of 73 Figure 1: Performance of Kabarole District Figure 2: Kabarole District Chairperson’s Council on Key Parameters Relative to National Performance on Key Parameters Relative to and Regional Average Performances National and Regional Average Performances Source: Local Government Councils Scorecard Assessment FY 2018/19 Source: Local Government Councils Scorecard Assessment FY 2018/19 2 kabarole DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT council SCORECARD assessment FY 2018/19 projects and monitoring service delivery where he and 43 out of 100 points respectively. Therefore, scored maximum points. Table 2 presents the details the Councillors’ performance was commendable of the performance of the District Chairperson. and worthy of recognition. In fact, Kabarole District Councillors were the 2nd in ranking at national level, 2.3 Performance of the Speaker of and the best out of the 11 assessed districts in the Council western region. At an individual level, Hon. Gedion Hon. Stella Kyorampe of the ruling NRM political Ruta Bujara representing Kasenda Sub-county was party was the Speaker of Council, Kabarole the best performing councillor scoring 85 out of 100 District Local Government. At the time of the points registering an improvement from 76 out of 100 assessment, the Speaker was serving her first term points obtained in the previous assessment. On the in office. Hon. Kyorampe registered a remarkable other hand, the best female councillor in Kabarole performance scoring 92 out of 100 points, a two District Council was Hon. Margaret Kihika Mugisa point improvement from the previous assessment. representing East Division who garnered 78 out of The Speaker emerged as the best in the western 100 points, an improvement by 8 points obtained region (of the 11 assessed speakers) and country from the previous assessment. On average, the wide (of the 35 assessed speakers). Her strongest best performed parameter by councillors was areas of performance were across all parameters, contact with electorate where they scored 18 namely; presiding over council meetings where out of 20 points. However, the worst performed she scored 20 out of 25 points, contact with the parameter was monitoring service delivery at 25 electorate at 20 out of the 20 points, participating out of 45 points. This was majorly attributed to lack in the lower local government meetings at 10 out of of follow up actions for the monitoring undertaken the 10 points and monitoring service delivery where in the various sectors. Table 4 summarises the she scored 42 out of 45 points. Table 3 summarizes performance of District Councillors of Kabarole the performance of the District Speaker of Council, District Local Government. Kabarole. Figure 4: Kabarole District Councillors’ Figure 3: Speaker of Council’s Performance Performance in Relation to National and on Key Parameters Relative to National and Regional % Scores Regional Average Performances 62 Source: Local Government Councils Scorecard Assessment FY 2018/19 Source: Local Government Councils Scorecard Assessment FY 2018/19 2.4 Performance of Kabarole District Councillors 3.0 Critical Factors that Affected There were 35 councillors in total who were Performance assessed during the current scorecard performance 3.1 Factors Enabling Performance assessment, where 14 (40%) were female. Overall, • Regular attendance of council and much as there was an observed marginal decline in committee meetings: It was noted that all the performance of district councillors countrywide on the councillors attended more than 4 council average, Kabarole District Councillors’ performance sittings and 80% attended at least