International Journal of Research and Innovation in Social Science (IJRISS) |Volume VI, Issue X, October 2022|ISSN 2454-6186
Accountability in Local Governments in Uganda: A Case-Study of Kyankwanzi District Local Government
Kiwuuwa Peter1*, and Ssendagi Muhamad2
1Department of Public Administration, Team University Kampala, Uganda
2Department of Finance and Accounting, Faculty of Business and Management, Islamic Call University, Kampala Uganda
*Corresponding Author
Abstract: The study was set to establish the influence of accountability in local governments in Uganda: a case-study of Kyankwanzi district local government. A case study and cross sectional survey design was employed. Both simple and purposive strategies were utilized and data collected using questionnaire and interview guide.
The study results confirmed that accountability: political accountability, managerial accountability and financial accountability were all critical for better service delivery in Kyankwanzi district local government. The study recommends that Kyankwanzi district council should strengthen civil society organizations, coordination amongst the different government departments through holding regular meeting, strengthen financial management systems through tailor made trainings for finance staff to acquire financial knowledge and skill to enhance financial accountability for better service delivery.
Key words: Accountability in Local Governments
I. INTRODUCTION
In recent years, the idea of accountability has risen to the top of the political agenda in Europe, Asia and Africa at large [9]. Partly because of its newly presumed link with development, donors and scholars devote to it an increasing amount of concern. But it is also an idea that seems capable of drawing support not just from developmentalists, but from across the ideological spectrum: accounting for one’s actions to oneself and one’s peers, seems a part of what it is to be human; most people would agree that a good society was one in which leaders were accountable to those they led [6].
Given this pre-occupation with accountability, it is perhaps surprising how little candid discussion there has been in African studies on the question of what sort of organizational performance are linked to accountability in the administrative and economic sphere [2].
The argument of this research, then, is that serious discussion of the issue of accountability is occluded in African studies because of an inadequate attention to the way in which the self is fabricated in social relations. It attempts to demonstrate these points by critiquing the work of a selection of scholars taken as emblems of Right and Left scholarship on Africa. It then presents an analytical argument sketching the relationship of the self to social relations, the relationship of