Balancing rural poverty reduction and citizen participation : the contradictions of Uganda’s decentralization program

Abstract: Uganda’s ambitious decentralization program is analysed in terms of a ‘‘Dual-Mode’’ system of local governance. In the absence of a culture of transparency and downward accountability, efficient service delivery and local empowerment will be hard to combine.

Author(s): Francis, Paul; James, Robert

Source(s): World development; 31(2003)2, p. 325-337, ill., tabs World development 31(2003)2

Published: 2003 Elsevier, Amsterdam [etc.] (English

ISBN/ISSN: /0305-750X

Link: http://courses.washington.edu/pbaf531/FrancisJames_UgandaContradictDecent.pdf

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