Click here to review the details. But even then, recently, a parliamentary committee recommended the creation of five new districts. ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATION2 To explain the meaning of this, we kidnapped a government official from the department of districts for an . Cu^e%lm h ?M% But they with shrunken revenues, they have achieved the exact opposite. Weve updated our privacy policy so that we are compliant with changing global privacy regulations and to provide you with insight into the limited ways in which we use your data. Many of the disadvantages that are discussed when looking at the process of gentrification involve the forced removal of households through rent increases or property values over time. Thus, on May 20, 2019, Uganda's Cabinet approved the phased creation of 15 cities across the country. Three years now, Ntoroko is yet to find the 48 health workers to staff Karugutu Health Centre IV, the biggest health facility in the district, with a maternity ward, general wards for children and adults and in-patient care. It also demanded that out of the turn-out, 80 per cent of them should vote YES to give the people the opportunity to have a separate region. What they are not talking about is the cost of a new district to the delivery of the expected services. It is much harder to find a consistent quality of place across most districts. endobj Compensation for the loss of Graduated Tax for example reduced from Shs44.4 billion last year to Shs41.1 billion this year. Your email address will not be published. The Lake District is a place where you can do a number of activities-. This gives them the ability to participate and elect representatives of their own choosing, and has been the solution of choice in situations where there is, or could be, racial vote . (28 Jun 2012), Electoral districts for greater accountability From the central government release, Shs 2.9 billion went to NAADS and Shs 194 million was for Graduated Tax compensation. But Karugutu has only 18 medical staff, with one doctor who spends more time in administration than patient care. Of the shortfall, Shs11 billion was provided by the central government and Shs963.4 million by donors. 0000003641 00000 n Barriers to Maori utilisation of ACC services and what Can be done" Report 2. ROLE OF HUMAN RESOURCE TRAINING AND PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL IN OFFERING LEGAL S KisumuSan Bseline Survey Final Report 2016, AMU WeeK 2 Chapter 3 Assurance Control Standards HW.pdf, Rasmussen College Module 10 Heart Disease Presentation.pdf, Analyzing quality improvement final submission.pdf, An environmental scan seeks to ensure your original pitch is.pdf, 6 Performance Indicators in Ope Mgmt.pptx, American Music nursing assignment tutor.pdf, 5 Role of coops in Economic Development.pptx. Government says it is looking for money to fund the more than 720 sub-counties and as such has no money tofund more administrative units. The lies, truth of creating new districts. It came to pass that the NPP led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo won the 2016 general election convincingly and was sworn-in as the fourth President of the fourth Republic on January 2017. JUNE 2015 It is expensive to support a district. By creating so many units whose average annual budget is approximately Shs 10bn, way above their revenue, government is undermining its own efforts. If you create a new region and you want a relatively accelerated rate of development, you may want to go in for a city or a town in this new region which already does have some minimum infrastructure, enough good roads, enough for housing for civil servants that will be coming in and so on,. 0 s.parentNode.insertBefore(gcse, s); 0000007823 00000 n 2. Wh!XJWZY%1O]TnN#|%Uzc{x1i hnN;T\W+.HDU>{@#m';>yZPZuz*']rz89B9j;93.6PG~>Hx&on|qJ_)7Ud28-}G(tX. PHOTO/FILE/PPU. disadvantage definition: 1. a condition or situation that causes problems, especially one that causes something or someone. Parliament has approved the creation of 23 new districts in a phased manner in the next four financial years. He said infrastructure such as good road network, sufficient accommodation facilities for prospective government officers must be prerequisites for the selection of the capitals for the new regions. They can open new markets, increase gross domestic product (GDP), and invite new investments. %PDF-1.4 % No nagging questions about whether or not your child is learning the right things at the right time. In all about seven places proposed to have separate regions. At national level, Uganda can be better planned under structured regional and sub-national arrangement than unguided planning spearheaded by new district administrators. In the North East Region, places like; Walewale, Gambaga and Nalerigu are the likely contestants for the capital. hbbd``b`6C HX2 PN "HX@)8Hp SAJ:#FjN| 0 a Free trade agreements are contracts between countries to allow access to their markets. In the United States alone, roughly 20 districts have reached a level of critical mass to warrant the name, concentrating a mix of research institutions, mature companies, start-ups and scale-ups, co-working spaces, and supportive intermediaries in close geographic proximity. The old districts have remained skeletal administrative units with a narrow tax base that cannot raise sufficient revenue. The primary disadvantages are that multimember districts. })(); Ghana Business News Copyright 2022, All Rights Reserved, Creation of new regions; benefits and challenges, Inside the News by Mpakoo All pieces appearing in this column are satire. K]-5q"qUsTF&}?iZ $BBhVp1#=9>_Qd(X'L'TIR#*$~")p\ri$7cMRQ;h.ImQZ]ZH-5{b5nch//S7$"0{ _ 2.4 The increase in the number of districts in Uganda Uganda has a population of about 29.7 million people.28 There are now 112 districts in Uganda, up from 33 when the current regime came into power 23 years ago.29 This translates into an average of 371 250 people per district. In the United States, in particular, blacks and Hispanics are more likely to be elected from single-member districts, in large part because the U.S. Voting Rights Act encourages the creation of districts where these racial or ethnic minorities predominate. M&E AND LEARNING Back in 2006, there were 7 districts. Time will tell if districts are truly up to the task. And for the lower local levels, most of them are yet to construct their town council or sub-county headquarters. It would be easy to point the finger at developers who are seeking to increase their profit margins through lower quality materials and designs, but this is only part of the story. By accepting, you agree to the updated privacy policy. 99 29 Yet these skeletal districts inherited huge debts and liabilities (pensions, gratuity, court costs, etc) incurred on behalf of the former districts which included the breakaway units. Now medical workers trek 15km every day to the health centre, arriving late, leaving early, patients going without adequate care. Some do not even have the required population. Ms Kadaga said Ugandans should know that the creation of more political units, increases government expenditure to pay salaries and allowances to numerous officials who occupy the new offices in the mushrooming administrative units. But the new unit had no funds to construct offices. [1] [2] Ministry for Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries. I list 79 districts here as that is the number of districts for which I have verified district chairperson election data from the Ugandan Electoral . Your email address will not be published. gcse.type = 'text/javascript'; Planned unit developments (PUDs) are mixed-use communities with homes, retail, green space, light industry and amenities like swimming pools and bike paths. Although people of various regions teamed up irrespective of ethnicity, religious and political inclinations, those issues are likely to serve as impediments in their bid to choose Regional capitals, Regional Ministers and even other auxiliary staff. 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Effective and Efficient LG System that provides quality, equitable and sustainable services. The disconnect dilemma. In other districts, buildings with large floorplatesoften desirable in software fields and necessary in key life science specializationshave frayed the human-scaled urban fabric. In the Savannah region, which was created out of the current Northern Region, some groups have begun pushing for Damongo to be made the regional capital, while others are also pushing for Salaga to be named the regional capital. 103 0 obj <>stream The advantages and disadvantages of multimember districts mirror those of single-member districts and overlap with the debate over plurality or majority systems and proportional representation systems. Enjoy access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, and more from Scribd. Publishers named above each report are responsible for their own content, which AllAfrica does not have the legal right to edit or correct. /LT#?1.Nc8}/=thbK&QlD>)ta2 4+E>IWOn?Fzsn?I:W\| 1Vj?oe` iq 0000009149 00000 n Article. After the creation of the Regional capitals, the next centre of attraction will be the selection of the Regional Ministers. Moses Ali. Stimulating Economic Activity. Recently Bweramule sub-country in Ntoroko was carved out of Rwebisengo sub-county. The divide dilemma. To some extent, it is also true. Lukia Isanga Nakadama. Conflicts resulting from the Creation of new Districts in Uganda, M&E, Grants and Learning Advisor at USAID-SAFE Program. She was being hosted. As leaders of local government we are not happy with the central government in the way it is financing the districts. We operate from Cape Town, Dakar, Abuja, Johannesburg, Nairobi and Washington DC. 2 0 obj Recommendations. To address comments or complaints, please Contact us. Last year, the Speaker of Parliament, Ms Rebecca Kadaga, said Ugandans who agitate for the creation of districts, constituencies and other political units are creating a burden to the treasury. (Tennessee It forces students into a cookie-cutter model of learning. It appears that you have an ad-blocker running. One of the primary advantages of factories is that even a relatively small one is an engine that generates economic activity. Recently Mr Kwesi Jonah, Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Democratic Governance (IDEG), suggested to government to choose already developed towns as capitals for the newly created regions. These are political districts in which members of a racial minority make up an effective voting majority. A clear articulation of this agenda then helps guide and enable the right physical moves and strategies to strengthen connectivity (e.g., intentionally creating nodes of certain actors located in close proximity to one another), increase collaboration (e.g., co-locating key researchers working within specific sectors), and reduce inefficiencies (e.g., eliminating redundancies in lab spaces). As part of the procedure, referenda were supposed to be held at all the areas that appealed for new regions. 0000011086 00000 n What Uganda and the citizens as a whole need at the moment are not the districts, but rather addressing of the real problems at hand such as the high rates of unemployment especially among. The strength of multimember districts rests in their ability to generate more balanced representation, both for certain groups traditionally under-represented, such as women and ethnic minorities, and for political parties. July 14, 2012 gcse.src = 'https://cse.google.com/cse.js?cx=' + cx; Thus, the cost of impact fees need not be built into the initial sales price of developed property. Only multimember districts with large magnitudes and some form of proportional voting will consistently produce proportional election outcomes. By 2000 only 27 districts qualified for the grant. Kampala THERE have been irritating demands from a cross-section of Ugandans for new districts to be created in their respective areas allegedly to "bring government services nearer to the people". Its leadership threw medical staff out of Bweramule Health Centre II, the only one in the area, from their staff quarters which were built last year by World Vision, an international NGO. The climax came in early 2001 at the height of presidential campaigns when the Iteso from Tororo District ate un-cooked rats hoping to intimidate and blackmail President Yoweri Museveni into a rash decision to grant them a district. This they did by collecting signatures of chiefs and prominent persons from those areas to make a case for their people. 0. Laudable as the ideas were, people of the suggested areas embarked on campaigns to ensure that the promises of the politicians bore fruits. Faculty of Cultural Sciences, African Politics and Development Policy, Germany. %PDF-1.5 % <>>> Modern mixed-use development is usually billed as a way to rejuvenate communities by creating spaces where a cross-section of a community gathers to work, live and shop. trailer $|S95?~ n3`(mi%V]+x13t% U7.^4cQEUvDOU9)2:lnVU|mR% KG7'zYLODe},F9}frj&kTetHM"^' {nA{3D:@5|WE9-^74 0000007039 00000 n Tap here to review the details. Table of Contents..1 0000005607 00000 n According to GEM, 28% of adults own or co-own a new business. Nifahene of Buem speaking at the Oti Region referendum victory rally had said Jasikan best suits the capital given its historical role as the headquarters for the then Buem-Krachi District Council. The hopes of those of us pushing for the belief that Uganda needs to have well-organized and planned towns and villages in the coming decades have been shattered. Instant access to millions of ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, podcasts and more. Creating more constituencies not only affects the county but also the beneficiaries because when the budget is big, it becomes hard for the government to fund it, she said. 4 0 obj 85 0 obj <>/Encrypt 64 0 R/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[<921091A27168250D8684E404FF1E0BF2><452B0F1930D4DC46AD8864BA4D07B549>]/Index[63 41]/Info 62 0 R/Length 101/Prev 144210/Root 65 0 R/Size 104/Type/XRef/W[1 2 1]>>stream Gerrymandering -- drawing political boundaries to give your party a numeric advantage over an opposing party -- is a difficult process to explain. Going by the notion of more districts, more services Uganda would be a star performer given that it ranks number one in Africa and the fourth in the world among countries with the largest number of highest-level sub-national administrative units and the smallest population per unit. For a more detailed discussion of the issue of single-member districts and minority representation in the United States, see US: Ethnic Minorities and Single-Member Districts. It left me questioning the fundamentals on which we are building our development goals. xb```ls@ (&"o1m1!R\:20$3d>_RxfEcVEN)-`i}!_hv\Nw>m-A$P$DMC#2#b2@RpWu 62)C2utY06 ])$"@D@@2*`!I-$fRCDHK`gdq2h2;2djeJbf:XpaP;\^JN3cx It was therefore not surprising that when the proposals were finally made, the people in those areas received it with alacrity. In some cases, institutions have expanded with a pure focus on advancing their academic mission, leaving other amenities and services to be found only in adjacent neighborhoods. 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