Department of Political Science and public Administration

Permanent URI for this communityhttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12504/162

Browse

Browsing Department of Political Science and public Administration by Author "Madinah, Nabukeera"

Filter results by typing the first few letters
Now showing 1 - 3 of 3
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Collision and contestation of power in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA)
    (The Ugandan Journal of Management and Public Policy Studies, 2023-12-25) Madinah, Nabukeera
    This article describes the collision and contestation of power in Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA). Power collision and contestation in KCCA have been known for a decade since the inception of the KCCA Act 2010. The draft of the Act was to have a better city; however, the implementation resulted in sharp conflicts, and since it broke at the center of power, it left a lot to be desired. Qualitative content analysis was used; articles were downloaded from various newspapers online and analyzed. Results indicate that the Act referred to the Lord Mayor as a political head in KCCA, not the political head of the Authority It was weakened because it reduced the legislative powers of the Lord Mayor to the Speaker and hence making the Mayor accountable to the Council; the Ministry of Kampala in consultation with the Ministry of Lands and Local Government shall coordinate the planning of the City and proposed an establishment of an executive committee appointed by the Lord Mayor on matters of legislation. The patronage approach cannot overtake the powers of the people and belittling the powers of elected leadership will only create more problems than the Government can solve.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    Employment, overseas migration, and social change in Uganda
    (Springer Nature Link, 2025-10-07) Madinah, Nabukeera
    Globally, close to 272 million people are international migrants living and employed outside their countries of birth. More than 628,905 Ugandan nationals stay and work abroad and majority of the Ugandan nationals migrated to African countries, followed by European countries, North America, and the least migrated to Latin America and the Caribbean region. The aim of the study was to examine the effect of Ugandans working abroad (employment) on the migrant remittance inflows (overseas migration and social change) in Uganda. A descriptive survey design was used with secondary data and a regression analysis. The study indicated that despite the growing number of Ugandan nationals employed abroad, they have no significant impact on social change in the country although the remittances have supported families to meet their basic needs such as rent, food, hospital bills, and support families to set up small businesses and school fees. For instance, it discovered that growth in the number of Ugandan nationals employed abroad had no significant effect on the remittance share to the gross domestic product (GDP). Similarly, the study noted that there is no steady growth in remittance inflows given the persistent growth in the Ugandan emigrants for employment in different countries. The study recommended that while Ugandan government has made several labor exportation agreements with some countries especially in the Arab states, Ugandans employed are still exploited especially in terms of salary, which consequently affects social change back home. The government should address these barriers and the absence of sufficient data on Ugandans who migrate abroad for employment. The Ministry of Gender should encourage the labor exportation agencies in the country to share the information on Ugandans exported for work.
  • Thumbnail Image
    Item
    State of the underprivileged population : a case study of Uganda
    (The Ugandan Journal of Management and Public Policy Studies, 2024-08-04) Madinah, Nabukeera
    This study investigates disparities in poverty levels, the distribution of widows, the prevalence of working children, and the demographics of the elderly population across different regions in Uganda. Employing a descriptive research design with a quantitative approach, the study relies on secondary data sourced from published reports by the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBOS). Key findings indicate significant regional poverty-level variations between 2006 and 2017 (F = 18.616, p < 0.05). However, there were no significant differences in the number of working children across regions (F = 0.818, p = 0.542) or in the gender distribution of elderly individuals across various sectors (mean difference = 13.2%, p = 0.3983). Significant disparities were observed between rural and urban areas in terms of access to basic amenities: blanket ownership (mean difference = 27.4%, p < 0.001), shoe ownership (mean difference = 31%, p < 0.001), and the frequency of consuming three meals per day (mean difference = 17.6%, p < 0.001). The study concludes with recommendations for targeted poverty alleviation interventions, particularly in the northern and eastern regions of Uganda.