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Local Government Councils' Performance and Public Service LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS’ PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA Amuru District Council Score-Card Report 2011/2012 Oscord Mark Otile Arthur Owor Walter Akena ACODE Public Service Delivery and Accountability Report Series No.4, 2013 LOCAL GOVERNMENT COUNCILS’ PERFORMANCE AND PUBLIC SERVICE DELIVERY IN UGANDA Amuru District Council Score-Card Report 2011/2012 Oscord Mark Otile Arthur Owor Walter Akena ACODE Public Service Delivery and Accountability Report Series No.4, 2013 Cover Illustrations: 1. A pilot school feeding program by Action Aid – Pupils (P.1 – p.4) of Guru Guru Primary school being served Porridge at lunch time (Lamogi Sub-county) 2. Focused Group Discussion at Jengari – palwong parish (Pabbo Sub-county) 3. A water source in Pawel Parish – Atiak Sub-county Published by ACODE P. O. Box 29836, Kampala Email: [email protected]; [email protected] Website: http://www.acode-u.org Citation: Otile, O., M., et.al., (2013). Local Government Councils’ Performance and Public Service Delivery in Uganda: Amuru District Council Score-Card Report 2011/12. ACODE Public Service Delivery and Accountability Report Series No.4, 2013. Kampala. © ACODE 2013 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 978-9970-07-023-7 Amuru District Council Score-Card Report 2011/12 Amuru District Council Score-Card Report 2011/12 Contents LIST OF TABLES AND FIGURES ............................................................................... i ACRONYMS ........................................................................................................ ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ........................................................................................ iv EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ......................................................................................... v 1 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................. 1 1.1 METHODOLOGY..............................................................................................................1 1.2 DISTRICT PROFILE ..........................................................................................................2 1.3 POLITICAL LEADERSHIP ..................................................................................................3 2 BUDGET ARCHITECTURE AND SERVICE DELIVERY IN AMURU DISTRICT ............... 5 2.1 AMURU DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT RESOURCE ENVELOPE .....................................5 2.2 BUDGET ALLOCATIONS ..................................................................................................6 2.3 STATE OF SERVICE DELIVERY IN AMURU DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT ......................6 2.3.1 PRIMARY EDUCATION SERVICES ....................................................................................8 2.3.2 HEALTH SERVICES ..........................................................................................................9 2.3.3 THE STATE OF THE ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE ................................................................10 2.3.4 WATER AND SANITATION ............................................................................................11 2.3.5 AGRICULTURE ..............................................................................................................12 2.3.6 FUNCTIONAL ADULT LITERACY (FAL) ...........................................................................13 2.3.7 ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES ................................................................13 2.3.8 EFFORTS TO ADDRESS GAPS IN SERVICE DELIVERY......................................................13 3 SCORE-CARD ASSESSMENT FINDINGS ............................................................ 15 3.1 SCORE-CARD ................................................................................................................15 3.2 PERFORMANCE OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL ..................................................................16 3.3 DISTRICT CHAIRPERSON ...............................................................................................17 3.4 DISTRICT SPEAKER .......................................................................................................19 3.5 DISTRICT COUNCILORS .................................................................................................20 4 FACTORS AFFECTING PERFOMANCE AND THE IMPLICATION ON SERVICE DELIVERY .. ..................................................................................................22 4.1 INTERNAL FACTORS .....................................................................................................22 4.1.1 CONTACT WITH ELECTORATE ........................................................................................22 4.1.2 LOW CIVIC AWARENESS AMONG THE COUNCILORS ....................................................22 4.1.3 POOR PARTICIPATION AT THE LOWER LOCAL GOVERNMENT LEVEL ............................23 Amuru District Council Score-Card Report 2011/12 Amuru District Council Score-Card Report 2011/12 4.1.4 POOR RECORD KEEPING AMONG COUNCILORS ...........................................................23 4.1.5 MONITORING OF GOVERNMENT PROGRAMMES .........................................................23 4.2 EXTERNAL FACTORS .....................................................................................................23 4.2.1 LOW CIVIC AWARENESS AMONG COMMUNITY MEMBERS ..........................................23 4.2.2 HIGH DEPENDENCE ON CENTRAL GOVERNMENT FUNDING .........................................23 4.2.3 LAND CONFLICT ...........................................................................................................23 5 RECOMMENDATIONS ................................................................................... 25 5.1 RECOMMENDATIONS ...................................................................................................25 5.1.1 IMPROVE LOCAL REVENUE ENHANCEMENT .................................................................25 5.1.2 REMUNERATION OF COUNCILORS................................................................................25 5.1.3 MITIGATE LAND CONFLICT. ..........................................................................................26 5.1.4 CIVIC AWARENESS EDUCATION ....................................................................................26 5.1.5 UNITY OF THE DISTRICT LEADERSHIP ...........................................................................26 REFERENCES ..................................................................................................... 27 ANNEX ............................................................................................................. 29 PUBLICATIONS IN THIS SERIES ........................................................................... 35 Amuru District Council Score-Card Report 2011/12 Amuru District Council Score-Card Report 2011/12 List of Tables Table 1: Demographic Characteristics of Amuru District Local Government ......................3 Table 2: Amuru District Leadership .......................................................................................3 Table 3: Secretaries of Council Standing/Sectoral Committees .........................................4 Table 4: Service Delivery Indicators in Amuru District (2011/12) ......................................7 Table 5: Performance of Amuru District Council in Fy 2011/12 .......................................16 Table 6: Chairperson’s Score-Card.......................................................................................18 Table 7: Speaker’s Performance in Fy2011/12 .................................................................19 Table 8: Score-Card Performance for Amuru District Councilors in Fy2011/12 ...............21 List of Figures Figure 1: Composition of the Resource Envelope for Amuru District ..................................5 Figure 2: Intra-Sector Budget Allocation for Financial Year 2011/12 ................................6 Figure 3: An Overcrowded Class In Kaladima Primary School (Left) and Construction of Classroom Block by Nudeil in Agole Primary School (Right) .....................................9 Figure 4: A Nurse Attending to a Patient and Patients Waiting in a Queue to be Attended to at Pabbo HCIII ........................................................................................................10 Figure 5: Unmotorable Road in Okidi Parish along Palaro-Atiak Road and Broken Culverts on Guru Guru-Kaladima Road – Lamogi Sub-County. ...............................................11 Figure 6: A Water Source in Pawel Parish – Atiak S/C and Amuru Sub-County. ..............12 Figure 7: Naads (Beans) Beneficiary - Lamogi Sub-County and Naads Demonstration Famer – Amuru T.C .....................................................................................................13 Figure 8: FGD Participants by Gender .................................................................................15 i Amuru District Council Score-Card Report 2011/12 Amuru District Council Score-Card Report
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