Buch(gedruckt) World Affairs Online1993

Providing for the rural poor: institutional decay and transformation in Uganda

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Abstract

In 1986 the National Resistance Movement took power after a long civil war. It established close links with the donor community and has been implementing an Economic Recovery Programme. Law and order has been restored across most of the country, economic growth has resumed and a limited process of political democratization has occurred. This has involved radical institutional change including a decline in the capacity of what was once a highly centralized and monopolistic state sector and the growth of new capacities in local government, small scale private business and voluntary agencies of various kinds. The ability to reform old structures and create new ones to provide cost effective and appropriate services for the rural poor - whether in health, education, or economic services - is now determining the options available to policy makers concerned to develop an effective poverty alleviation programme. This book attempts to extend the analysis of adjustment policy by examining this process of institutional transformation, evaluating the relative success of the various structures involved, and suggesting ways in which the process could be strengthened and improved. (DÜI-Hff)