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Poverty and Development in Uganda

• Institutional web sites
This section includes:
Web sites of Ugandan institutions and organizations
Web sites of African international organizations interacting with Ugandan civil society and institutions

• Poverty Reduction Strategies in Uganda
Resources on Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers promoted by the international organizations. This section includes collections of working papers and other documents on poverty and development in Uganda

• Reading List
Collection of working papers and other documents for an introduction to the study of topics related to poverty and development in Uganda

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Institutional web sites

Three essential web sites

• Government of Uganda
This web site includes links to all Ugandan Ministers

• Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development
This web site inclides a section devoted to Ugandan Poverty Eradication Action Plan, PEAP

• Public Budget
Minister of Finance Planning and Economic Development web site's section on public budget

Other web sites

• African Friends in Need Network (AFINNET)
Promotes rural community development initiatives and projects that focus on community participation and capacity building

• Center for Conflict Resolution (CECORE)
An initiative of Ugandan people working to seek alternative and creative means of preventing, managing and resolving conflicts.

• Development research and training (DRT)
DRT is a Ugandan Non-Governmental Organisation. It was established in 1996 by a team of Community Development Practitioners with an overall objective of addressing poverty through institutional development, participatory research, analysis and policy influencing

• Economic Policy Research Centre
EPRC is an autonomous not for profit research centre aiming to foster sustainable growth and equitable development of the Uganda economy

• Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET)
The Women of Uganda Network (WOUGNET) is a place to share news, information and activities on women related issues in Uganda.

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Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

Four essential web sites

• The World Bank's web pages on Uganda

• The HIPC Initiative in Uganda
The World Bank's pages on the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries Initiative in Uganda

• Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper in Uganda
The World Bank's pages on the Ugandan Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper

• The Role of Participation and Civic Engagement in the Poverty Reduction Strategies
A collection of working papers and other documents on Uganda's experience on poverty reduction strategies in Uganda, edited by the World Bank

Other web sites

• African Centre for Economic Growth (ACEG)
Non-profit policy research organisation established in Kenya to promote collaborative and comparitive policy analysis of socio-economic problems facing countries in Africa

• Debt Initiative for the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs)
The principal objective of the Debt Initiative for the heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) is to bring the country's debt burden to sustainable levels, subject to satisfactory policy performance. Uganda was the first country to be declared eligible to benefit from HIPC in 1998

• East African Livestock Early Warning System
This analysis portal (covering Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda) provides data and analysis of forage conditions in the region. It includes raw data, maps and regular situation reports (including the Greater Horn of Africa (GHA) Food Security Bulletin)

• SAPRI (Structural Adjustment Participatory Review Initiative)
In order to analyse the impacts that structural adjustment has had in many developing countries, certain NGOs challanged the World Bank to undertake a review of structural adjustment programmes and to explore new adjustment options in conjunction with CSOs.
Thus, in 1996 SAPRI was developed through consultations between World Bank country teams and a global network of CSOs formed for the exercise. Uganda is one of the countries involved in this initiative

• Uganda's Page
Uganda's page on the African Studies Center's website at the University of Pensilvanya

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Reading list

Essential readings

• DFID (1999), Uganda: Country Strategy Paper 1999, Department for International development, London.

• Foster, M., Mijumbi, P. (2002), How, When and Why does Poverty get Budget Priority? Poverty Reduction Strategy and Public Expenditure in Uganda, WP163, Overseas Development Institute, London.

• Francis, P., James, R. (2002), Balancing Rural Poverty Reduction and Citizen Participation: The Contradictions of Uganda's Decentralization program, University of East Anglia, Norwich.

• Kasumba, G., Land, A. (2003), Sector-Wide Approaches and Decentralisation. Strategies pulling in Opposite Directions? A Case Study from Uganda, Study prepared in the context of a five-country review on the relationship between Sector-Wide Approaches and Decentralisation.

• Lister, S., Nyamugasira, W. (2003), Design Contradictions in the 'New Architecture of Aid'? Reflections from Uganda on the Roles of Civil Society Organisations, Development Policy Review Volume 21 Issue 1 Page 93 - January 2003.

• Longo, R. (2003), IFAD Desk Review of the PRSP Process in Eastern and Southern Africa, Eurodad.

• Sabatini, F. (2004), Uganda: l'allievo modello della Banca Mondiale? Le nuove contraddizioni della cooperazione allo sviluppo, forthcoming in Dis/Uguaglianze, Trimestrale per l'analisi dei processi di sviluppo e sottosviluppo. Available also in html version.

• USAID (2003), Poverty Reduction in Uganda, PPC Evaluation Working Paper No.3, Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination.

• Williamson, T. (2003), Targets and Results in Public Sector Management: Uganda Case Study, WP205, Overseas Development Institute, London.

• World Bank (2000), Uganda process case study, Action Learning Program on Participatory Processes for PRSP.

• World Bank (2000), Uganda: Tracking Public Expenditures (PETS), Civic Engagement in Public Expenditure Management Case Studies

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Further readings

• Appleton, S. (2001), Education, Income and Poverty in Uganda in the 1990s, Centre for Research in Economic Development and International Trade (CREDIT), Nottingham.

• Booth, D., (2001), PRSP Processes in Eight African Countries. Initial Impact and Potential for Institutionalisation, Paper for presentation to the WIDER Development Conference on Debt Relief, Helsinki, 17-18 August 2001.

• Cohen, M. (2002), Microfinance, risk management and poverty, Office of Microenterprise Development, USAID, Washington.

• Deininger, K. (2001), Uganda's Rural Economy 1992 to 2000: Accomplishments and Challenges, Mimeo, World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Devarian, S., Dollar, D., Holmgren, T. (2001), Aid and Reform: Lessons from Ten Case Studies in Africa, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Foster, M. (2000), New approaches to development co-operation: What can we learn from experience with implementing sector-wide approaches?, Working Paper 140. London: ODI

• Foster, M., Mackintosh-Walker, S. (2001), Sector Wide Programmes and Poverty Reduction, Centre for Aid and Public Expenditure, Overseas Development Institute, London.

• Foster, M., Fozzard, A., Naschold, F., Conway, T. (2002), How, When and Why does Poverty get Budget Priority? Poverty Reduction Strategy and Public Expenditure Reform in Five African Countries, WP168, Overseas Development Institute, London.

• Greely, Jenkins (2002), Mainstreaming the Poverty-Reduction Agenda: An Analysis of Institutional Mechanisms To Support Pro-Poor Policy Making and Implementation in Six African Countries, IDS Research Reports - 51.

• Holmgren, T., Kasekende, L., Atingi-Ego, M., Ddamulira, D. (2001), Aid and Reform in Uganda, The World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Kakande, M. (2002), The role for participatory monitoring and evaluation in the PRSPs: Uganda's experience, Briefing notes for the International Conference on “Beyond the Review: Sustainable Poverty Alleviation and PRSP”, 13 – 16 May 2002, Berlin, Germany.

• Kidd, A. (2002), Extension, Poverty and Vulnerability in Uganda: Country study for the Neuchatel Initiative, WP151, Overseas Development Institute, London.

• Krishna, A., Wielsen, C., Prewitt, G., Sobhan, B. (2000), Changing Policy and Practice from Below: Community Experiences in Poverty Reduction, United Nations Development Program, Civil Society Team.

• Lewis, D. (2002), Civil Society in African Contexts: Reflections on the Usefulness of a Concept, Development and Change Volume 33 Issue 4 Page 569 - September 2002.

• Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (2000), Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP), Kampala.

• Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (2000), Uganda's Poverty Eradication Action Plan. Summary and Main Objectives, Kampala.

• Mugambe, K. (2000), Uganda's Experience in Preparing the Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper, Paper presented at the Poverty Reduction Strategy Forum, Cote d'Ivoire, 2000.

• Musinguzi, P., Smith, P. (2000), Saving and Borrowing in Rural Uganda, Working Paper, University of Southampton.

• Narayan, D. (1998), Republic of Uganda: global social capital survey, World Bank, Washington

• Nyanzl, T., Heady, C., Bevan, P. (1998), Exploring the dynamics of poverty in Africa: a case study from Uganda, Report to the Department for International Development, Department of Economics and International Development, University of Bath.

• Reinikka (2002), Making health services work for poor people, World Bank Research Project.

• Reinikka, R., Ablo, E. (1998), Do Budgets Really Matter? Evidence from Public Spending on Education and Health in Uganda, Policy Research Working Paper 1926, World Bank, Washington D.C.

• Richter, P. (2004), The Integration of the Microfinance Sector into
the Financial Sector in Developing Countries. The Role that Apex Mechanisms Play in Uganda, Paper presented at the EGDI and UNU-WIDER Conference "Unlocking Human Potential: Linking the Informal and Formal Sectors", 17-18 September 2004, Helsinki, Finland.

• Robison, L.J., Siles, M.E. (2002), The Use of Social Capital for Development and Poverty Reduction, Social Development Strategy Working Paper, World Bank, Washington.

• Ssmpebwa, R. (2002), Sector-Wide Approaches: The Experience of Non Government Organisations/Civil Society, Paper presented at ‘Sector Wide Approaches: Opportunities and challenges for gender equity in health’, Women’s World Conference, Kampala, Uganda, 23rd and 24th July 2002.

• Theobald, S., Tolhurst, R., Elsey, H. (eds) (2002), Papers presented at ‘Sector Wide Approaches: Opportunities and challenges for gender equity in health’, Women’s World Conference, Kampala, Uganda, 23rd and 24th July 2002 (the pdf file includes all papers presented at the conference).

• World Bank (2000), Formulation of Uganda's Poverty Eradication Action Plan, Washington D.C.

• World Bank (2001), Aid and Reform in Africa: Lesson from Ten Case Studies, Washington D.C., World Bank.

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