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    Adoption of the Parish Development Model (PDM) for socio-economic development of Ugandans: a case study of Banda and Kyambogo upper estate parishes
    (East African Journal of Business and Economics, 2025-03-31) Asiimwe, Florence Munyonyo
    Background: The escalating burden of poverty in Uganda, disproportionately affecting youth, prompted government initiatives like Emyooga and Entandikwa. However, mismanagement and misuse of funds hindered their effectiveness. In response, the Government of Uganda introduced the Parish Development Model (PDM) in February 2022, aiming to eradicate poverty and accelerate socio-economic transformation. The PDM is built on seven pillars, including production, infrastructure, financial inclusion, social services, community data, governance, and attitude transformation. These pillars promote collaboration between public and private sector actors, ensuring sustainable development. The government has doubled funding for PDM, allocating UGX 200 million per parish to promote economic growth at the grassroots level. While the PDM shows promise, its success depends on effective implementation, transparency, and accountability. Addressing concerns surrounding mismanagement and misuse of funds is crucial to ensuring resources reach intended beneficiaries and contribute meaningfully to poverty alleviation. Objective: To examine the benefits of the Parish Development Model among the beneficiaries for socio-economic transformation. Methods: This study utilized a qualitative research paradigm, incorporating a case study methodology to investigate the benefits of the Parish Development Model (PDM) among purposively selected groups in Banda and Kyambogo Upper Estate parishes. A strategic sampling framework was employed to select 50 beneficiaries from diverse groups, ensuring the capture of nuanced perspectives and experiences. Participants were drawn from specialized groups, including Snack A and B, the Mushroom Group, the Tomato and Vegetable Group, and the Hard Corn Group. Data collection entailed focus group discussions, which yielded rich, contextualized insights into participants' lived experiences with PDM. Thematic analysis was employed to deconstruct the data, facilitating the identification of salient themes and patterns pertinent to the benefits and challenges encountered by participants. This methodological approach afforded a comprehensive understanding of the PDM's impact on these communities, illuminating areas for potential enhancement and informing avenues for future research. Findings: The empirical evidence suggests that the Parish Development Model (PDM) funds have yielded significant positive outcomes, including enhanced financial inclusion, augmented agricultural productivity, job creation, poverty alleviation, empowerment of marginalized groups, improved infrastructure, strengthened social capital, and localized economic growth. However, a notable disparity persists between beneficiaries who have received funding and those awaiting disbursement, with the latter experiencing undue delays despite investing considerable resources in the application process. These delays have impeded progress toward achieving the program's objectives, underscoring the need for expedited fund disbursement. Nonetheless, optimism prevails that timely access to funds will catalyze socio-economic transformation, augment quality of life, and foster community development. Conclusion and Recommendation: The Parish Development Model (PDM) has demonstrated significant progress over its two-year implementation period, facilitating beneficiaries' ability to consolidate their projects and attain enhanced economic stability. Nevertheless, persistent challenges undermine the program's efficacy, particularly the perceived politicization of the PDM. Beneficiaries underscored the imperative of decoupling political interests from the program to ensure its seamless operation, foster a paradigm shift in mindset, and guarantee equitable access for all eligible participants.
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    The Growth and Development of Small-Scale Enterprises among the Youth: A Case Study of Mbuga Village, Mbarara District
    (International Journal of Academic Multidisciplinary Research (IJAMR), 2024-10-10) Nduhura, Twesigye; Natamba, Shadrack; Kasirye, Godfrey; Ainebyona, Luckious; Nduhuura, Collins
    This study assessed the factors that have hindered the growth and development of small scale enterprises in Mbuga village, to identify the limiting factors for the growth and development of small scale enterprises and to examine possible solutions to the slow growth and development of small scale enterprise of Mbuga village in Mbarara district. The study took a crosssectional design where both quantitative and qualitative approaches were used in the facts that provides wide range of valid responses, no limits were put to respondents, many respondents participated at the same time and also enabled the researcher to understand first, analyze and reveal data in a more meaningful way however, quantitative data was used to provide numerical analysis in terms of frequencies and percentage composition as a way of measuring incidental effects or influence between different variables. A sample size of 50 respondents was used who were expected to provide reliable findings to the study questions administered to them. The study examined the causes of slow growth and development of small scale enterprises in Mbuga village in Mbarara district and findings revealed that inadequate education and training by the business owners to their employees, poor accounting practices, higher transaction costs, lack of market opportunity, stiff competition among SME owners, lack of enabling environment like competition inadequate management like business knowledge, government policies inform of heavy taxes, inadequate land for expansion, lack of improved infrastructures inform of roads and lack of market opportunity was also revealed among the limiting factors to the growth and development of small scale and medium enterprises. The study went ahead to assess the possible solutions to the limitation to the growth and development of small scale and medium enterprises in Mbuga village in Mbarara district. The findings revealed the necessity of equitable allocation of raw materials, improvement in techniques of production, adequate funding through bank loans and subsidies, government to emphasize export strategy to widen the market, improving on government policies like imposing appropriate taxes and giving subsidies, improving on the techniques of production to replace automated equipment and ensuring customer retention through building customer loyalty.