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AFRICAN JOURNAL OF AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GOVERNANCE & DEVELOPMENT • Volume 2 • Number 1 June 2013 • Volume & DEVELOPMENT AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GOVERNANCE GOVERNANCE & DEVELOPMENT AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GOVERNANCE & DEVELOPMENT Vol 2 No 1 • June 2013 AFRICAN JOURNAL OF GOVERNANCE AND DEVELOPMENT Contents Vol 1 No 3 • June 2013 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................................v BETTY MUBANGIZI EDITORS An econometric analysis of the investment climate and growth potential in Nigeria ..................................................... 1 EDITOR-IN-CHIEF KALU U CHRISTOPHER AND FRANCIS O NWAIGWE Vernon Damani Johnson Western Washington University (USA) Prospects for creating global justice consensually: suggestions from models of indigenous African governance ....... 15 ASSISTANT-EDITOR-IN-CHIEF HELEN LaUER Thenjiwe Meyiwa Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) The effectiveness of the Expanded Public Works Programme on job creation: a look at a South African MANAGING EDITOR metropolitan municipality .........................................................................................................................................................28 Simão Nhambi BETTY CLAIRE MUBANGIZI AND NOZIPHO FLORENCE MKHIZE University of St Thomas of Mozambique Institutional dynamics and health service delivery in regional referral hospitals in Uganda: What lessons from a REVIEW EDITOR case of Jinja Regional Hospital? ..........................................................................................................................................40 Betty Mubangizi CHRISTINE J ONDOA, BENON C BASHEKA AND MUHENDA M BASAASA University of KwaZulu-Natal, RSA Babafemi Akinrinade Western Washington University Boundaries of community engagement in enhancing performance of government programs at the local level: a lesson drawing from National Agricultural Advisory Services (NAADS), Uganda .......................................................57 Honourary Editor STELLA B KYOHAIRWE AND BENET TIBAIJUKA Joaquim Alberto Chissano Fundação Joaquim Chissano Is performance management measurement a panacea for effective accountability and transparency in public Copyright © USTM, 2013. service delivery in a developing country? Insights from Uganda ....................................................................................71 GAD RUZAAZA, DAVIS MALOWA AND MAUDE MUGISHA Publisher Centro de Investigação Científica (CIC) Contributors’ biographies ........................................................................................................................................................91 University of St Thomas of Mozambique (USTM) Avenida Ahmed Sekou Toure, 610, Maputo, Mozambique Guide for authors ......................................................................................................................................................................92 Tel: +258 21 49 11 35 Fax: +258 21 49 11 34 Referencing ................................................................................................................................................................................93 Email: [email protected] Número de Registo: 7152/RLIND/2011 ISSN: 2218-5615 PRODUCTION Proofreader – Gaylene Jablonkay, Artworks Communications Portuguese proofreader: Luis Edgar F. Huamusse Designed and typeset – Artworks Communications, Durban, South Africa The views outlined in individual contributions are not necessarily those of the University of St Thomas of Mozambique. Disclaimer: While every care has been taken in the compilation of this publication, no liability can be accepted by the publishers or editor for any errors or omissions that may have occurred. Editors Policy challenge and development in Africa Editor-in-Chief BETTY MUBANGIZI Vernon Damani Johnson, Western Washington University (USA) Assistant-Editor-in-Chief Introduction Thenjiwe Meyiwa, Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) We present this issue of African Journal of Governance and Development against the backdrop Managing Editor of the recently released MDG Report of 2013: Assessing progress in Africa toward the Millennium Simão Nhambi, University of St Thomas of Mozambique Development Goals. The forward to this Report states that: Review Editors Betty Mubangizi, University of KwaZulu-Natal, RSA • Babafemi Akinrinade of Western Washington University “Africa must commit to inclusive, transformative development that reduces income poverty, Honorary Editor creates decent jobs, enhances access to social services, reduces inequality and promotes Joaquim Alberto Chissano, Fundação Joaquim Chissano resilience to climate-related hazards”. Editorial board The Report notes that while Africa has made great strides towards reaching the Millenium Development Ahmed Jazbhay Goals (MDGs) the continent’s low development has required more effort to make meaningful progress University of South Africa and that while Africa is the world’s second fastest growing region, its rate of poverty reduction is Betty Mubangizi University of KwaZulu-Natal, RSA insufficient to reach the target of halving extreme poverty by 2015. For this reason, Africa must thus put David Moore structures in place to sustain its development well beyond the MDG timeline. University of Johannesburg, RSA It is not that Africa is poor on policies that would progressively lead to these ideals. Indeed, it Elisio Macamo is often said that government departments, while awash with good policy intentions, are always Basel University, Switzerland hamstrung by weak implementation of these policies leading to incessant policy failures. Lawrence Hamilton University of Johannesburg, RSA This issue of the African Journal of Governance and Development presents reflections Lisa Aubrey on pertinent issues relating to how good policy intentions can, through the public service, be Arizona State University, USA translated into reality and the challenges thereof. Maleshoane Mathonsi-Rapeane Kalu and Nwaigwe report on a study on improving the Nigerian investment climate for National University of Lesotho enhanced economic growth using data sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Bulletin Margaret Lee University of North Carolina, USA and the National Bureau of Statistics. The authors observed many reasons for the poor economic Mario Cumbe performance of the Nigerian economy, among which was the decline in investment rates. Given Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Mozambique the central role of investment in the Nigerian development process, the authors suggest that steps Pearl Sithole must be taken to create a stable macro-economic framework, ensuring a favourable fiscal regime, University of KwaZulu-Natal, RSA Pierre Matungul strengthening the capacity and integrity of institutions, developing human resources, deepening University of St Thomas of Mozambique and diversifying the economic base, as well as enhancing competitiveness, among other policy Regis Chireshe options, to boost investment. University of South Africa Lauer looks at Africa’s challenges from a global and structural perspective, arguing that Romain Francis African presence is essential in forming any agency to express the contemporary effort to University of South Africa Sergio Inácio Chichava develop distributive and retributive principles of global justice. On this basis, her article explores Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos, Mozambique the possibility of creating a forum to develop global justice consensually as the outcome of Stephan Meyer deliberation and compromise through cultural diversity and the lessons carried within post-colonial Basel University, Switzerland efforts at democratic governance indigenous to Africa. Ushotanefe Useh One of concerns raised in The MDG Report 2013 is that of the need to address inequality. In North West University, RSA José Chichava Universidade Eduardo Mondlane Introduction v this regard, the report recommends that countries should develop social protection mechanisms An econometric analysis of the investment climate and which include health insurance to improve access to high-impact interventions for children, growth potential in Nigeria targeting the poorest and most marginalised children and families. South Africa’s Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) is a case in point. Mubangizi and Mkhize report on a study that KALU U CHRISTOPHER AND FRANCIS O NWAIGWE examined how the eThekwini Municipality’s EPWP has been conceptualised with particular regard to job creation. It attempts to establish the extent to which the beneficiaries of the EPWP have Abstract been able to obtain and sustain decent jobs beyond their involvement in the Municipality’s EPWP. The slow economic growth rate experienced by most developing countries, including Nigeria in the The study indicates how public officials and beneficiaries seem to have varying perceptions of late 1970s and the early 1980s, has now manifested itself in the form of macro-economic imbalances, what the EPWP aims to achieve. In this regard, Mubangizi and Mkhize make recommendations on a wide saving/investment disparity, a steep inflationary spiral, and a high debt overhang. Hence, the how to reconcile these divergent views to yield sustainable benefits for both public officials and study examines improving the Nigerian investment climate for enhanced economic growth. The data project beneficiaries. was sourced from the Central Bank of Nigeria