Browsing by Author "Kibira, Vicent"

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    Citizens’ Engagement in Local Government Decision Making Processes: Towards public finance accountability, transparency, and improved service delivery in Uganda
    (Gateway Research Centre, 2021) Kibira, Vicent; Nannozi Ggoobi, Susanie; Kiberu, Jonah
    The decentralization system of government in Uganda offers local government the mandate to administratively extend social-economic services to the citizens. It also involves citizens in determining specific local public needs and channeling such needs to urgent priority areas. The core objective of decentralization in Uganda is largely to improve public service delivery by bringing services closer to communities and ensuring peoples’ participation and democratic control in social-economic and political decision-making. Thus, decentralization is presumed pivotal in global efforts for sustainable development by opening the democratic space though transparent, inclusive, and citizen-driven planning and implementation of services.
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    Financial literacy as a tool of business transformation for Small and Medium Enterprises in Uganda
    (Gateway Research Centre, 2021) Kibira, Vicent; Kiberu, Jonah; Twinamasiko, Emmanuel
    Majority of the businesses in developing countries, Uganda inclusive fall under Small and Medium Enterprises. They employ the largest part of the population and contribute to livelihood improvement and sustainability. SMEs thus play a significant role in economic growth and development of the economy. This brief presents what limits the performance of SMEs and recommends the possible policy measures that can be adopted to transform SMEs in Uganda citing financial literacy as the key general strategy to SME transformation. The limitations to SME growth highlighted include shortage of capital and credit facilities, limited skilled labor, inadequate raw materials, poor infrastructure, inefficient management skills, and the contained use of new, emerging, and constantly changing technologies.
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    Massive voter education as a pivotal preventive tool to violence in 2021 elections in Uganda a question of election funding
    (Gateway Research Centre, 2020) Kayemba, Joseph; Luttamaguzi, JohnBosco; Kiberu, Jonah; Kibira, Vicent
    Voter education is an important aspect that promotes the credibility of an election as it empowers citizens with knowledge on how to exercise their right to vote in any election with acceptable voter behavior and integrity. In the previous General Elections in Uganda, violence was cited at almost every level of election. Election periods are critical moments that need a tactical approach to register free, fair, safe and secure elections. It is the mandate of the Electoral Commission to organize, conduct and supervise free and fair elections.
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    The quest for the decentralization of revenue mobilization to Local Governments in Uganda
    (Gateway Research Centre, 2020) Kibira, Vicent; Kiberu, Jonah
    A sound revenue system for local governments (LG) is an essential pre-condition for the success of proper service delivery among local governments. Local revenue mobilization has the potential to foster socio-economic and administrative accountability through empowering communities. In Uganda, revenue mobilization is centralized thus local governments are entitled to a defined portion of the revenue collected to meet socio-economic and administrative in their area of jurisdiction. Local governments should be allowed to exercise the authority to mobilize local revenue under the regulation of the central government.