Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/53097 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Discussion Paper No. 2001/138
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
Uganda is the first country to benefit from the 1996 Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative, which offers a number of low-income countries an opportunity to negotiate a reduction of their external debt, and is utilizing the savings from the relief to implement social sector reforms, via its poverty eradication action plan (PEAP). This paper assesses the performance of the social sector programmes being implemented. It indicates that even though some progress has been achieved in improving Uganda’s social indicators, there are a number of constraints to the reform process: inadequate capacity particularly at the district and community levels; insufficient inputs including teachers and health personnel; and weak accountability of resources. However, implementation of programmes to solve these problems requires additional resources to those that are currently projected from domestic and donor sources, and it is estimated that there is likely to be a resource gap in the country’s social development expenditure. An implication is that Uganda will require further financial support in order to be able to significantly improve its social indicators.
Subjects: 
HIPC debt relief
social sector reforms
Uganda
JEL: 
O11
O19
F34
F35
ISBN: 
9291901016
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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