The Republic of Uganda

KARENGA DISTRICT LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Community Based Services Department
Budget Conference, FY 2020/2021
Baatom Ben Koryang
District Community Development Officer

October 2019
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 Introduction
Community Based Services is the lead
department of the Social Development
Sector (SDS) in the district.

It is the MGLSD at the district level

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 Vision
We contribute;

District “A
Vision;literate, socio-
economically enabled and prosperous
community by 2040”.
National Vision of; “A Transformed Ugandan
Society from a Peasant to a Modern and
Prosperous Country within 30 years”.
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 Mandate
‘To empower communities to harness their
potentials through cultural growth, skills
development and labour productivity for
sustainable, gender responsive and inclusive
development’.

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 Process
…seek to promote community level action to
poverty reduction through increased provision
of appropriate and affordable services and
interventions at all lower service delivery
levels in the community…

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 process…
‘…adequate community participation in
development programmes and projects
through proper coordination of all
community-based services in the District’.

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 Core functions
O Community mobilization: to empower
communities to appreciate, access, participate in,
manage and demand for services and
accountability in public and community based
initiatives.
O Social protection: ensure inclusion of all social
groups in all planned interventions; protecting
vulnerable categories from deprivation and
livelihood risks (support vulnerable groups) and
abuse.
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 core functions…
O Labour, employment and industrial relations:
Create an enabling environment for increasing
employment opportunities and productivity for
improved livelihoods and social security, skills
development, labour dispute settlement & Work
based inspection.
O Gender Equality and Women Empowerment;
ensuring that issues of inequality and exclusion
across all sectors and levels of development are
addressed.
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 core functions…
O Institutional capacity development- conduct
OCA for local groups; and ensuring improved
performance of civil society organisations
and development partners (NGOs) to
implement desired development programmes
as required by the District Council and
Government.
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 Key out puts in the last 3 months
O Social Protection Interventions:

O 949 SAGE beneficiaries received payments twice

(August & October)
O 01 case of defilement was reported and
investigated, the perpetrator is on remand;

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 Key out puts cont’d…
O Gender equality & Women empowerment:

O 13 women groups have been approved for

funding; accounting opening has been
completed and accounts submitted to the
Ministry to transfer funds

O Registered 14 Women groups

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 Challenges
O Lack of office space.

O Lack of transport for Community

Development Officers
O Funding to the department is low-
achieving planned outcomes will become
difficult
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 Strategies to overcome the
challenges
O Continue to sensitize the communities on how
to benefit from the grants
O Continue to lobby for return of YLP operation
funds

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 Strategies to overcome the
challenges
O Joint support supervision & monitoring of
programmes can be encouraged

O Continue to sensitize communities on referral

of cases & strengthen case management

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 IPFs for Karenga FY
2020/2021
Grant Amount (UGX)
Sector grants 18,768,000
DDEG 00
Local revenue 00
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 IPFs for FY 2020/2021…
Grant Amount (UGX)
Youth Livelihood
00
Programme (YLP)
Uganda Women
Entrepreneurship 00
Programme (UWEP)
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 IPFs for FY 2020/2021…

Grant Amount (UGX)

UNICEF 00
UNFPA 00

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 Priorities for Financial
Year 2020/2021
In 2020/2021, we commit to expand provision of
community based interventions in the functional areas
of community mobilization, expanding social
protection, gender and women empowerment, labour
dispute settlement, work based inspection and
Institutional Capacity Development and strengthening
partnerships.
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Planned outputs and outcomes
In FY, 2020/2021, the department specifically will call attention to the following:

Output Expected outcomes

Increased number of categories
Protection interventions
of people (women, children,
extended to vulnerable
disability, elderly, youth)
groups and individuals
accessing social protection
in the district.
services
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 Outputs and outcomes…
Output Expected outcomes
Communities mobilized
Increased numbers of women
to support women
engaged in gainful
empowerment
employment
initiatives-UWEP etc.
Communities mobilized Improved nutrition and ECD at
to scale up nutrition and households & community level
ECD through KFCPs and as a result of adoption of key
positive parenting family care
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 Outputs and outcomes…

Outputs Expected outcomes

Increased employment
Increased provision of youth
and incomes to youth &
services- Youth council, YLP &
the households they live
skills training
in.
Increased provision of Increased incomes to
services to PWDs: disability PWDs and improved
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mobility
 Outputs and outcomes…
Outputs Expected outcomes
Increased provision of
services to the Increased provision of grants to
elderly- Elders the elderly people
council, SAGE-SCG
Improved Enhanced coordination of all
coordination of all partners achieved; increased
development partners capacity of local CBOs supporting
working in the district service
Ben delivery to communities
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 Outputs and outcomes…
Outputs Expected outcomes
Improved
Enhanced coordination of all
coordination of all
partners achieved; increased
development
capacity of local CBOs supporting
partners working in
service delivery to communities
the district

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Thank you for
listening

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