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KALI has been
working with Ihandiro Sub County on issues of Gender budgeting and governance,
emphasizing planning and budgeting.
Ihandiro Sub County
is found in Kasese district, Bukonzo west constituency. Being a mountainous
area, its road network and communication is poor and therefore a hard to reach
and hard to live area.
For many years,
Ihandiro Sub County was one of the least performing sub counties in Kasese
district in planning and budgeting for the community members. This was due to
inadequate skills in planning and budgeting by the technical staff, committees
and the elected leaders; planning process was basically desk work without
involving the communities.
Through KALI
monitoring findings, the above were revealed and interventions were designed in
agreement with the sub county leadership, to improve the planning process.
KALI organized a
meeting with the sub county leadership where action plans were drawn and a sub
county gender budget advocacy group was established which helped in ensuring
gender sensitive plans and budgets.
KALI then organized
training workshops aimed at developing the capacities of the sub county leaders
and technical staff in planning and budgeting processes which included their
roles and responsibilities and thereafter, facilitated the planning meetings right
from the village level to sub county level. This included supporting the budget
conferences.
Because of the
above interventions, I handiro sub county is now one of the best performing sub
counties in the district. There has been a great improvement in the planning
and budgeting processes and increased community participation at the grassroots
level to the sub county level. This is portrayed by effective participation of
councilors, the community and other stakeholders in the process especially the
budget conferences to ensure their priorities are incorporated in the sub
county development plan. This forms the basis for assessing any sub county’s
performance, and hence a ground for bonus. For the financial years 2009/2010
and 2010/2011, Ihandiro sub county has been in position of getting these
performance bonuses and this has increased on the sub county income.
Some members of the community taking part in the planning process in Ihandiro sub county
In view of the
above, most communities are willing and ready to participate in any development
intervention as long as they are informed /invited and therefore, for effective
planning and budgeting of any sub county, there is need for participation of
all stakeholders.
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