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Assessing the nature and strategies used for revenue knowledge development to support the management of public revenue mobilization in Pallisa district, Uganda
(International Journal of Qualitative Research, 2026-03-30) Nasinyama, Moses Makoha; Mugisha, James; Kakuba, Juma Sultan
This paper assessed the nature and strategies used for revenue knowledge development to support the management of public revenue mobilization (PRM) in Pallisa District, Uganda. A descriptive case study design, which was purely qualitative, was adopted, with a diverse mix of study participants. Data was collected using an in-depth interview guide, a key informant interview guide, a focus group discussion guide, and a document review guide. Findings revealed the existence of both informal sources of revenue knowledge (conversations, vendor networks, or families and formal sources of revenue knowledge (books, magazines, brochures), and the existence of the Taxpayer Registration Expansion Program (TREP) arrangement between Uganda Revenue Authority (URA), Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB), Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA), and Local Governments (LGs). The study concluded that building the capacity of the technical (revenue) officers, political leaders and the business community to obtain, refine and utilize revenue-related knowledge/information; ensure that technical (revenue) officers undertake sensitization efforts through training, meetings, ‘barazas’, and workshops to enlighten and provide revenue information pertinent to the business community and the Government of Uganda ensure that the Taxpayer Registration Expansion Program (TREP) arrangement between URA, URSB, KCCA, and LGs is strengthened and mandates harmonized to promote cooperation, coordination and implementation would support the management of the public revenue mobilization in Pallisa district and Uganda.
Elections and domestic peace in Africa: assessing peace opportunities in Uganda’s 2021 presidential election
(Springer International Publishing, 2022-11) Kanyamurwa, John Mary; Kakuba, Juma Sultan; Kaddu, Ronald; Babalanda, Stanely
Substantial narratives have in recent years been woven around the role of electoral democracy, widely welcoming it as a symbol of Africa’s advancement towards nonviolent power transfer and political stability. Yet, such analyses have often overlooked the unswerving electoral effects on critical peace perspectives in individual African countries. Contributing to the broader discourse on electoral democracy and peaceful democratic upshots, this chapter uses Uganda’s 2021 presidential election, held under COVID-19 pandemic regulations, to assess the domestic peace prospects attendant to electoral democracy as per current studies. Accordingly, adopting exploratory qualitative methods, the paper makes several arguments. First, the introduction of major constitutional reforms which centrally provided for competitive electoral democracy starting from the early 1980s, on which the January 2021 presidential election was based, paved the foundations for domestic peace in the country. Secondly, in line with the study results, we maintain that the 2021 presidential election processes fundamentally undermined domestic peace opportunities. This perspective was particularly reinforced by the experiences of violence leading to unfortunate civilian deaths, abductions and citizen incarcerations following the short-lived arrest of one of the presidential candidates during the presidential campaign in late 2020. Third, the results underscored a perspective on how key electoral and state security institutions detrimentally shaped the 2021 presidential election, inauspiciously contributing to events that further progressively eroded domestic peace. For more enduring and even-handed domestic peace in the country, the paper recommends profound constitutional reforms focusing on checks and balances, more inclusive electoral laws and security reforms aimed at boosting domestic peace in the context of electoral democracy.