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  • OPM Regional Office, Plot 1, Lower Churchill Drive, P.O. Box 342, Gulu
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  • OPM Regional Office, Plot 1, Lower Churchill Drive, P.O. Box 342, Gulu

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Northern Uganda that is Economically Prosperous and Peaceful with a High Quality of Life for its People.

Project Title
Northern Uganda LG System Strengthening Project
NDPIII Programme
Regional Development
Sector
Local Government
NDP PIP Code
REG3-00005
Location
26 LGs in West Nile, Acholi and Lango sub-regions
Estimated Project Cost
UGX. 32.225 Bn
Total funding gap
UGX. 32.225 Bn

Contact

  • Chairman General: +256 (0) 782777855
  • Secretary General: +256 (0) 772 342325
  • Regional Coordinator: +256 (0) 782959525
  • [email protected]
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PROJECT INTRODUCTION

Problem Statement
Problem to be addressed
● Lack of interest and capacity for citizen participation in governance.
● A negative mindset to democratic governance, participation and transformation.
Causes of the problem
● Lack of knowledge and information on citizens’ rights, roles, and responsibilities in democracy and governance, participation, accountability and development.
● Negative political orientation.
● Corruption (leaders and the population).
Situation Analysis
Past achievements
GOU working with the Governance Accountability, Participation, and Performance (GAPP) project conducted several trainings with LG leaders however, citizen engagement was not covered. Scorecard by Action for Development (ACFODE) with poor indicators which addressed governance problems within the LGs. Office of the Prime Minister undertaking Local Government Performance assessment and capacity building.
Ongoing interventions
GAPP-USAID; ACFODE
Challenges
The resulting proliferation of district administrative units has rendered the prospect of large-scale investment, and the planning for an effective management of shared resources beyond district boundaries increasingly difficult.

Many districts, because of their small sizes, lack the local administrative and technical capacity to effectively plan for, attract, and implement strategic development interventions. Rather, these districts often operate reactively to budget planning and fail to consider long-term, strategic vision.

District development plans often fail to capture larger, inter-district and intra-region, development opportunities. There is a critical need for a regional development strategy driven by the people of Northern Uganda. Other challenges include: a high staff turnover rate, understaffing in LGs, poor working relationship between elected and appointed leaders and underfunding of LGs.
Relevance of the project idea
NDP Strategy: Increasing participatory civic engagement in decision making by going beyond the current participation in budgeting to assessing the performance of policies, programs, and projects.
Stakeholders
Citizens, LGs, CSOs and development partners
Project Objectives/Outcomes/Outputs
Project objectives
● To empower citizens in democratic governance, participation, and accountability.
● To enhance capacities of LG in service delivery.
● To enhance the integration of a Human Rights Based Approach in policies, development planning, programs and projects.
Project outcomes
● Empowered citizens of Northern Uganda actively participating in democratic governance and transformation of their communities.
● Empowered citizens holding local governments accountable for service delivery.
● Demand-driven services by communities.
● Efficient and effective service delivery.
Project Outputs
● Sub-regional presence established.
● 26 Integrated District Development Plans aligned to the NURDEF and NDPIII.
● 7 Integrated Municipal Development Plans aligned to the NURDEF and NDPIII.
● Local Government Performance Assessment Reports.
● NURDEF Progress Reports.
● NURDEF mid Term Review Reports.
● NURDEF End Evaluation Reports.
Project inputs/activities/interventions
Inputs
● Resource persons
● Office and transport equipment
● Funds
Activities
● Hold leaders’ forums to popularize the strategy and investment plans closely with Commercial/Investment officers at districts.
● Disseminate and popularize LG planning policies at parish, sub-county, district, sub-regional and regional levels.
● Conduct mindset change sessions with leaders and communities on community ownership of development programs and projects.
● Conduct quarterly barazas/accountability meetings at community levels.
Interventions
● Establishment of sub-regional secretariats to coordinate the strategy investment plan implementation (creating a strategy implementation mechanism and registering as an entity.
● Strengthening the capacity for project development and appraisals.
● Strengthening District Integrity Promotion forums.
● Fraud and integrity promotion awareness training for district and regional leaders.

STRATEGIC OPTIONS

Strategic options (indicate the existing asset, non-asset, and new asset solutions).
Proposed solutions
The Government of Uganda’s efforts through a national decentralization policy aims to bring services closer to the people.
Alternative means of financing
Public Investment
Donor Government Partnership
Comparison of alternatives
Likely preferred option
Donor Development Partnership

PROJECT ANNUALISED TARGETS

Output
UGX. 32.225 Bn
Actual(2019/20)
UGX. 32.225 Bn
2020/21
UGX. 32.225 Bn
2021/22
UGX. 32.225 Bn
2022/23
UGX. 32.225 Bn
2023/24
UGX. 32.225 Bn
2024/25
UGX. 32.225 Bn

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