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A Mid Term Citizens’ Assessment of the 9th Parliament• From the Citizens survey, only 31.5% of respondents felt that the 9 th Parliament espoused good qualities of leadership and conduct while carrying out theirexpected duties and roles while 31.7% disagreed. 8.9 of the respondents were not sure while 27.9 posted no feedback• About 78% found the office of speaker to be exemplary and effective in its roles and duties to parliament while those who answered in the negative were11%.• Only 22.9% of the respondents felt that the Deputy speaker performed his duties with effectiveness and diligence in the parliament while those who feltdissatisfied with his performance were overwhelmingly 61.3%.• Meanwhile 55.1% of the respondents felt satisfied with the manner in which the office of the Leader of Opposition conducted their business in parliamentwhile 30.8% responded in the negative.• In the same manner, 27% of the respondents were satisfied with the performance of the leader of Government business in the 9 th parliament but 42.2% werenot.• And finally, 30.1% were satisfied with the performance of the Government chief whip of the 9 th Parliament; however, those who responded in the negativewere 39%.36UGMP September 2014
A Mid Term Citizens’ Assessment of the 9th ParliamentPart 3Conclusions & RecommendationsIn the 2011 campaigns period, over 400 aspirants for Parliament from different political shades signed leaders’commitment forms, committing to implement the demands as well as deliver as per Citizens expectations in the CitizensManifesto. Some of these were elected to the 9th Parliament, contributing to the total of 365 MPs. Following this, thespeaker of Parliament on behalf of Parliament signed a Memorandum of Understanding with citizen organizationsled by the Uganda National NGO Forum and the Uganda Joint Christian Council (UJCC). As part of this MOU, aCitizens Manifesto Charter for Parliament was presented and accepted as a standard upon which the institution ofParliament would be assessed.Based on the above, the 9th Parliament is obligated to uphold the demands in the Citizens’ Manifesto that are translatedinto standards for the period 2011-2016.Findings in this report portray that even though such commitments were made in the beginning by the 9th parliament,the last three years have seen a large discrepancy between acclaimed actions, actual results and citizens’ satisfaction inalmost all the 11 standards.Despite commendable strides made on a number of areas, Parliament of Uganda still has a range of improvements tomake in its functioning. The main challenge, noted like with other public obligations, has been with the managementand implementation of these amended bills and planned activities to meet the standards. There are varying perceptionsabout the performance of the 9th Parliament from the citizens in all 11 standards.Source: Field Survey on Performance of ParliamentThis section presents the key conclusions and recommendations made as part of this audit. The recommendations andconclusions are intended to augment the Performance of the 9th Parliament and the sessions that will follow. Theseare presented in relation to the three main functions of Parliament; legislative function representation, and oversight.3.1.1 Legislative RoleOver the past three years, the 9th Parliament has discussed and passed several laws some of which affect fundamentalrights and freedoms in Uganda. In the exercise of its legislative function, parliament is not only limited to laws, Billsand policies that are presented before them. They can look at laws already passed and propose review and amendmentsfor them.UGMP September 201437
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