Issuance Date 19 August 2011 Contract Number AID-617-C-10 ...

Kitgum
WUC Evaluation – Preliminary Results 2011
Table 5: Kitgum District Challenge and Recommendation Highlights
Interviewee Challenges Suggestions/Recommendations
Chief Agricultural Budget
‐‐
Officer and Focal
Budgeted funds for software
Person (FP), Peter
components were used to deal
Abale
with a dry well (to cover the cost of
moving the BH to a new
Assistant District
community). The funds left over
Water Officer (ADWO), were enough to only cover two
Charles Oryema
trainings (four WUCs remain to be
trained) – FP
The two trainings that did take
place were supposed to be
conducted over a period of 3 days
but were condensed into 2 days
due to budget constraints – ADWO
Chief Agricultural Dry Well
‐‐
Officer and Focal
There is no contingency plan to
Person, Peter Abale
deal with:
o Moving the location of
the BH (funds)
o Compensating the
community that was
promised a BH but did not
receive one.
Oyam
Table 6: Oyam District Challenge and Recommendation Highlights
Interviewee Challenges Suggestions/Recommendations
District Engineer Budget
The budget should be created
(DE), Julius Olupot Budgeted funds were for trainings at
for individual trainings or the
the sub‐county level. However,
trainings should be conducted at
trainings were carried out at the
community for NUDEIL BHs. As such,
the allocated funds were enough for
“pre‐trainings” [mobilization] only and
no “post‐trainings” were conducted
the sub‐county level as planned.
Allocation of Funds
The sub‐county should
The district requests the money and
formulate the budget and
then hands the money over to the sub‐ request the money directly. The
county. The process takes time and is
district should only perform
complicated. This causes reports to be
delayed and follow‐ups are difficult.
assessments and follow‐ups.
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