Governance and poverty eradication policy performance during the NRM1 Administration in Uganda 1986 – 2020
Poverty in Uganda is attributed to diseases, limited access to land, large families, lack of markets for agricultural produce, lack of credit facilities, lack of education and vocational training, lack of jobs, high unfair taxes and market dues, death of family bread winners, ignorance and lack o...
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Kabale University Interdisciplinary Research Journal (KURJ)
2024
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12493/1934 |
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| Summary: | Poverty in Uganda is attributed to diseases, limited access to land, large families, lack of
markets for agricultural produce, lack of credit facilities, lack of education and vocational
training, lack of jobs, high unfair taxes and market dues, death of family bread winners,
ignorance and lack of information, idleness and laziness, insurgency and gender inequalities
among others. This is the identifiable poverty structural complex within which any actor
on poverty reduction and eradication has to work. However, despite the above elaborate
classification of the causes of poverty in Uganda and the enactment of numerous anti poverty policies, less effort has been expended in analyzing why the poverty situation in
Uganda has not significantly changed since the NRM administration.
This study therefore attempted inter alia to fill this research gap and also sought to introduce
new concepts that can improve poverty reduction and eradication agenda in Uganda. The
idea behind this research is that if the causes of the slow progress in poverty reduction are
not identified and targeted holistically through policy and inculcation of good governance at
all levels of government administration, it will be difficult for Uganda to achieve significant
poverty reduction and eradication in the long run. Consequently therefore, the main objective
of the study was to establish whether or not a relationship exists between governance and
anti-poverty policy performance in Uganda and to generate governance practices that can
be applied for better anti-poverty policy performance in Uganda in the future. Following
on this objective it is hypothesized that a possible relationship exists between governance
practices at all levels of government administration and poverty reduction so much so
that particular governance practices are crucial in poverty reduction. A mixed research
methodology was adopted in the study and a number of questions were adopted to assist
in probing this hypothesis. |
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