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Academics’ perceptions of good teaching: Assessing the degree of parity with student evaluation of teaching questionnaires
(Africa Education Review, 2018)
There is a dearth of studies on academics’ perceptions of good teaching in transitional
economies such as Uganda and the degree of parity between academics’ conceptions of
good teaching and the items in the student ...
Recentralization of local government Chief Administrative Officers appointments in Uganda: Implications for downward accountability
(Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2013-11)
The Uganda Constitution of 1995 spelt out the principle of decentralization by devolution. Accordingly, from 1995 to 2005, district local governments had a dejure mandate to hire and fire all categories of civil servants ...
Human resource management in local governments: An analysis of recruitment and selection practices in Uganda
(The Journal of African & Asian Local Government Studies, 2013)
The transfer of staff hiring and firing decisions from the central government to the
district local governments through the District Service Commissions (DSCs) is
considered to be one of the cornerstones of the Ugandan ...
Driving up standards: civil service management and decentralization: Case study of Uganda
(Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2012-12)
There is a consensus that decentralization by devolution leads to improved service delivery, but
debate on the appropriate type of personnel arrangements for delivering decentralized services is far
from over. Put ...
The Dangerous Boda Boda Transport Mode: Mitigating an Impending War on the Roads in a Transforming City? Case of Kampala City
(Journal of Logistics Management, 2019)
This paper investigates the tyranny of motorbike (boda-boda) socio-economic costs associated with
commercial motorbike accidents in a city setting and provides strategies to reduce the negative effect of such transport
mode. ...
Marketing Strategies and Market Performance of M-Sente a Mobile Money Product of Uganda Telecom Ltd
(Universal Journal of Management, 2016)
Purpose- Intrigued by the poor market performance of M-Sente product of Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL), this study examined the relationship between marketing strategies and the market performance of M-Sente, a mobile money ...
Does the Office of the Prime Minister in Uganda conduct Gender Responsive Evaluations?
(African Journal of Governance and Development, 2018-12)
Gender equality and women’s empowerment are possible when development programmes and
policies confront unfair power relationships between men and women. Monitoring and evaluation
are tools that can enhance gender ...
Public Sector Reforms in Africa: What Lessons have we Learnt?
(Forum for Development Studies, 2012-03)
Several public sector reforms (PSR) have taken place in Africa over the last few decades with varying degrees of success; these range from very excellent performance to limited success and then failure. However, regardless ...
Network Governance and Capacity of Local Governments to deliver LED in Uganda
(Commonwealth Journal of Local Governance, 2015-12)
This paper discusses network governance and its contribution to the capacity of local governments (LGs) to deliver local economic development (LED) in Uganda. Although a formal LED policy was only established in Uganda in ...
Municipalities in Motion: How Clustered Procurement Supports Municipalities Transition into Cities Case Study: USMID Programme in Uganda
(Journal of Logistics Management 2019, 2019)
The purpose of this paper is to define clusters and clustered procurement and critically discuss the role of clustered procurement in the evolution of municipalities to cities. Methods and Methodology– The research adopts ...