Mainstreaming the Demographic Dividend Drivers in Sector and LG development plans and budgets: Moving from Policy to Programmatic Approach
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Date
2018
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SPEED Initiative
Abstract
The Vision 2040 pronounced “harnessing the demographic
dividend (DD)” as one of the strategies for benefiting from
the country’s abundant and young population. The DD is
an opportunity for economic growth and development that
arises as a result of changes in population age structure.
When fertility rates decline significantly, the share of
the working-age population increases in relation to the
dependant age groups. A larger working-age population if
gainfully employed can enable a country to increase GDP
and raise incomes, but must be nurtured. With the right
polices and investments in health, education and economy
the increasing young population is, therefore, considered as
one of the potential drivers to socioeconomic development
and transformation of Uganda. The Vision Strategy of
“Harnessing the Demographic Dividend is concretized
through: Human Capital Development Pillar interventions
in the National Development Plan (NDPII).
Although broad DD intervention have been specified
and incorporated into NDP II both at objective and
strategy levels under the human capital development
pillar, translating them into Sector-level interventions and
Local Government activities is still a challenge. This brief
highlights the decisions needed to guide the mainstreaming
of the demographic dividend drivers into sectoral and local
government development plans including non-state actors.