The Political Context of Financing Infrastructure Development in ...

The Political Context of Financing Infrastructure Development in Local Government
Table of Contents
List of Abbreviations
Abstract 1
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1. Introduction 2
1.1 Overview of Local Governance 2
1.2 Objectives 3
1.3 Theoretical Framework 3
1.4 The Era of Decentralization in Uganda 5
1.5 Institutional set-up of Local Governments 7
1.6 The Structure/hierarchy of local councils 8
2. Findings 11
2.1 Local Government Financing 11
2.2 Grants from Central Government to Local Governments 16
2.3 Infrastructure Development in Local Governments 20
2.3.1 Oversight functions 21
2.3.2 Emerging Policy Issues 24
3. Conclusions and recommendations 28
3.1 Conclusions 28
3.2 Recommendations 29
References 31
RESEARCH SERIES 33
Economic Policy Research Centre - EPRC
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