Title: Balancing rural poverty reduction and citizen participation : the contradictions of Uganda's decentralization program

Authors: Francis, Paul and James, Robert

Place: Amsterdam [etc.]

Publisher: Elsevier

Year: 2003

Journal: World development

Volume: 31(2003)2

PAGE: 325--337

Subject: Rural Decentralization and Local Governance

Keywords: decentralization in government, local government, basic services, empowerment, popular participation, accountability, uganda

Abstract: Uganda’s ambitious decentralization program is analysed in terms of a ‘‘Dual-Mode’’ system of local governance. In the absence of a culture of transparency and downward accountability, efficient service delivery and local empowerment will be hard to combine.

URL: http://courses.washington.edu/pbaf531/FrancisJames_UgandaContradictDecent.pdf

Document type: Other