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LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS’ PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA Mbarara District Council Score-Card Report 2012/2013 Arthur Bainomugisha . Yvonne A. Kisuule . Gershom Matsiko . Rodney Kyankaaga ACODE Public Service Delivery and Accountability Report Series No.32, 2014 LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS’ PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA Mbarara District Council Score-Card Report 2012/2013 Arthur Bainomugisha . Yvonne A. Kisuule . Gershom Matsiko . Rodney Kyankaaga ACODE Public Service Delivery and Accountability Report Series No.32, 2014 Published by ACODE P. O. Box 29836, Kampala Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Website: http://www.acode-u.org Citation: Bainomugisha, A., et.al., (2014). Local Government Councils’ Performance and Public Service Delivery in Uganda: Mbarara District Council Score-Card Report 2012/13. ACODE Public Service Delivery and Accountability Report Series No.32, 2014. Kampala. © ACODE 2014 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 purposes or for purposes of informing public policy is excluded from this restriction. ISBN: 978 9970 34 028 6 Cover Illustrations: The famous Mbarara Bull as a welcome symbol to Mbarara District. CONTENTS LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ............................................................. I ABBREVIATIONS ................................................................................. III EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................... V 1. BACKGROUND ................................................................................. 1 1.1 Introduction .............................................................................. 1 1.2 District Profile ............................................................................ 1 1.3 District Leadership ..................................................................... 3 1.3.1 Political leadership .................................................................. 3 1.3.2 Technical leadership ................................................................ 4 1.4. Methodology ............................................................................. 5 1.4.1 The Scorecard ......................................................................... 5 1.4.2 The Scorecard Administration .................................................. 5 1.4.3 Data Management and Analysis ............................................... 7 2. BUDGET PERFOMANCE AND THE STATUS OF SERVICE DELIVERY IN MBARARA DISTRICT ................................................................... 8 2.1 District Budget Performance .............................................. 8 2.1.1 District Resource Envelope ............................................... 8 2.1.2 Sectoral Budget Allocations ............................................ 10 2.2 Status of Service Delivery in Mbarara District Local Government ..................................................................... 11 2.2.1 Primary Education ......................................................... 13 2.2.2 Health Services .............................................................. 14 2.2.3 Road Network ................................................................ 15 2.2.4 Water and Sanitation ...................................................... 15 2.2.5 Agriculture ..................................................................... 16 2.2.6 Functional Adult Literacy ................................................ 18 2.2.7 Environment and Natural Resources ............................... 18 3. FINDINGS FROM THE SCORECARD PERFORMANCE ..................... 20 3.1 Assessment....................................................................... 20 3.2 Performance of the District Council ................................... 20 3.3 Performance of the District Chairperson ........................... 22 3.4 Performance of the District Speaker ................................. 23 3.5 Performance of District Councilors .................................... 24 4. FACTORS AFFECTING PERFOMANCE OF MBARARA DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND IMPLICATIONS FOR SERVICE DELIVERY ...................................................................................... 28 4.1 Internal Factors ................................................................ 28 4.1.1 Poor monitoring of government projects ......................... 28 4.1.2 Low levels of civic awareness among the electorate ........ 28 4.1.3 Poor record keeping by councilors .................................. 29 4.1.4 Internal political wrangles .............................................. 29 4.2 External Factors ............................................................... 29 4.2.1 Budget architecture: High dependence on Central Government funding ......................................................... 29 4.2.2 Municipality versus District ............................................ 29 4.2.3 Poor facilitation of Councilors ........................................ 30 4.2.4 Local Revenue Generation ............................................... 30 5. GENERAL CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ...................... 31 5.1 Conclusion .............................................................................. 31 5.2 Policy Recommendations ......................................................... 31 REFERENCES ..................................................................................... 34 ANNEXES ........................................................................................... 35 PUBLICATIONS IN THIS SERIES ......................................................... 38 LIST OF TABLES Table1: Population Characteristics as at 2012 ....................................... 2 Table 2: Mbarara Technical Leadership .................................................. 3 Table 3: Mbarara Political Leadership .................................................... 4 Table 4: Secretaries of Council Standing Committees ............................ 4 Table 5: Service Delivery Indicators for Mbarara District (2012/13) ..... 11 Table 6: Performance for Mbarara District Council in FY2012/13 ........ 21 Table 7: Chairperson’s Scorecard ........................................................ 22 Table 8: Speaker’s Scorecard .............................................................. 23 Table 9: Performance of Mbarara District Councilors ........................... 26 i LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: Mbarara District Population Projections from 2002-2013 ........ 3 Figure 2: Pie-chart of FGD participation by gender ................................ 6 Figure 3: Percentage share of major revenue sources for the Mbarara District budget for the FY 2012/2013 ............................................ 9 Figure 4: Composition of the resource envelope for Mbarara ............... 10 Figure 5: Intra-sector Budget allocations for Mbarara District (2012/2013) ............................................................................... 11 Figure 6: Bukiro Health Centre III in Bukiro Sub-county. On the right are staff residences ........................................................................... 14 Figure 7: One of the dirty water sources shared by both humans and livestock in Kashari County .......................................................... 16 Figure 8: Left, a matooke farmer in Rwanyamahembe Sub-county and right, some of the indigenous cows, the Ankole long horned cattle grazing in Biharwe Sub-county ..................................................... 17 Figure 9: Shows a degraded bank of River Rwizi in Nyamitanga Division ....................................................................................... 19 ii LIST OF ACRONYMS ACODE Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment AIDS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome CDD Community Driven Development CEFORD Community Empowerment for Rural Development CSO Civil Society Organization FAL Functional Adult Literacy FGD Focus Group Discussion FY Financial Year HC Health Centre HIV Human Immunodeficiency Virus Hon Honorable LC Local Council LG Local Government LLG Lower Local Government NAADS National Agriculture Advisory Services NFA National Forestry Authority O&M Operation and Maintenance OPD Out Patient Department PAC Public Accounts Committee PAF Poverty Alleviation Fund PLE Primary Leaving Examinations PRDP Poverty Reduction Development Programme PWDs Persons with Disability SFG School Facilities Grant TC Town Council UBOS Uganda Bureau of Statistics UPE Universal Primary Education iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT This scorecard was prepared as part of the Local Government Councils’ Scorecard Initiative (LGCSCI). The Initiative is a partnership between the Uganda Local Government Association (ULGA) and the Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE). This report is a product of deep and intensive consultations with the district technical and political leadership in Mbarara District and community members in selected sub-counties in the district. The research team would like to acknowledge the contributions of the LGCSCI project team at ACODE and the researchers from across the country that provided useful information