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The uneven playing field and the 2016 elections in Uganda

CMI Brief | Apr 2016

It is easy to document that the 2016 elections in Uganda were unfair. To combat the uneven playing field one needs to systematically assess ...

election, Uganda

Når kan kvoteringsordninger for kvinner i politikken fjernes?

Newspaper Op-Ed | Feb 2019

Bruken av kjønnskvotering i politikken skal i utgangspunktet være midlertidig og avskaffes når målet er nådd. ...

Tanzania, Uganda

SUGAR project in Uganda & STAAC project in Ghana

Project | Jan 2016 - Jan 2018

SUGAR in Uganda DFID has initiated a new programme, called Strengthening Uganda’s Anti-Corruption and Accountability Regime (SUGAR). ...

Anti-corruption, real-time evaluation, PDIA, Developmental Evaluation, institutional transformation, collective action, innovation, Uganda, Ghana

Norwegian Research Support to Developing Countries: The Cases of Uganda & Zimbabwe

Report in External Series | Jan 1998

This report, commissioned by NORAD through the Research Council of Norway, maps the institutional research situation in Uganda and Zimbabwe ...

Research, Aid, Uganda, Zimbabwe

Operating in the shadow of the executive - women's substantive representation in the Uganda Parliament

Event | 3 Oct 2013

Trial lecture 3 October, 15.15 p.m.: "Women's substantive representation in Africa's legislatures today: Do findings from Uganda apply ...

A joint response to corruption in Uganda: Donors beginning to bite?

U4 Practice Insight | Mar 2012

Given the stagnating trend on corruption in Uganda and the need to consolidate accountability reforms ahead of the inflow of oil revenues, international ...

aid, Uganda

Private Tax Collection - Remnant of the Past or a Way Forward? Evidence from Rural Uganda

Journal Article | Jan 2006

This paper examines the growing role and impacts of private tax collection under fiscal decentralisation in Uganda. Based on evidence from six ...

Decentralisation, private tax collection, corruption, Sub-Saharan Africa, Uganda

Turnaround: The national resistance movement and the reintroduction of a multiparty system in Uganda

Journal Article | Apr 2009

This article addresses the process behind the decision of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) to reintroduce multiparty politics in Uganda. ...

Uganda

Organizing their way to gender equality

News | 25 Oct 2013

Ugandan women have organized themselves to the core of national politics. What lessons are there to learn from the Ugandan experience?

Støtter Norge krigen i Kongo?

Newspaper Op-Ed | Jan 2003

Mer enn 260 millioner norske bistandskroner går til Uganda hvert år. Denne summen utgjør langt mer enn hva Uganda har brukt ...

DR Congo, Uganda

When Neighbours become Killers. Land Redistribution, Ethnicity and Communal Violence in Kibaale District, Uganda

Master's Thesis | Jan 2006

The point of departure is a local incident of ethnic violence in Kibaale District in western Uganda. Very few people were killed, yet it received ...

Ethnic groups, Ethnic conflicts, Violence, Africa: Uganda

To pay or not to pay? Citizens' attitudes towards taxation in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa

Report in External Series | Jan 2013

This paper examines factors that determine citizens’ tax-compliance attitude in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa. Using the 2011/12 ...

Taxation, compliance, tax behaviour, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda

Perceptions of Chinese presence in Africa as reflected in the African media: case study of Uganda

Journal Article | Oct 2015

The Chinese entry into the African continent and the subsequent effect on soft power in global relations are of increasing interest to many ...

Beijing Consensus, , globalization, , imperialism, , neo-colonialism, , partnership of equals, , Washington Consensus, Uganda

Rural taxation in Uganda: Implications for growth, income distribution, local government revenue and poverty reduction

Report in External Series | Jan 2004

The purpose of the research underlying this report is to contribute towards the process of policy change in Uganda with respect to local government ...

Taxation, Local government, Rural development, Africa: Uganda

Corruption in Tax Administration: Lessons from Institutional Reforms in Uganda

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2005

Over the past two decades many developing countries have implemented comprehensive reforms of their tax administrations in order to increase ...

Corruption, Incentives, Social norms, Tax administration, Tax evasion, Uganda, JEL classification: D73, H26, H30, J33, K42, Z13, Africa: Uganda

Kingship in Uganda. The Role of the Buganda Kingdom in Ugandan Politics

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006

This article aims at providing a framework to understand the role of the Buganda kingdom in contemporary Ugandan politics, and more specifically ...

Politics, History, Buganda, Uganda

Towards Multiparty System in Uganda: The Effect on Female Representation in Politics

CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006

Scholars, politicians and women activists today share a concern for the limited representation of women in different political bodies. Statistics ...

Elections, Political parties, Women's representation, Uganda

When Neighbours Become Killers: Ethnic Conflict and Communal Violence in Western Uganda

CMI Working Paper | Jul 2007

Across Africa land rights conflicts are escalating between indigenous and migrant ethnic groups. This paper analyses the communal violence that ...

Ethnic conflicts, Violence, Uganda

Autonomy, incentives and patronage: a study of corruption in the Tanzania and Uganda Revenue Authorities

CMI Report | Jan 2003

The report explores factors that explain the observed patterns of corruption within the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) and the Uganda Revenue ...

Corruption, Incentives, Social norms, Tax administration, Tax evasion, Tanzania, Uganda, JEL classification: D73, H26, H30, J33, K42, Z13, Africa: Tanzania

Reintroducing a Local-Level Multiparty System in Uganda: Why Be in Opposition?

Journal Article | Jan 2009

In a referendum in July 2005 the people of Uganda voted overwhelmingly in support of reintroducing the multiparty system. As a result, one expected ...

Opposition, Local Governance, Elections, Dominant Party Systems, Uganda