Showing posts with label welfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label welfare. Show all posts
Friday, April 15, 2016
Oil Studies in Uganda: An Opportunity for Development
The Integrated Mental Health Initiative (IMI) is proud to partner with Engineer Oil Globe to offer affordable education for junior and senior high school leavers to match the growing oil industry in Uganda and the region; to reduce vulnerabilities to mental health challenges associated with poor socioeconomic conditions common among IMI supported communities, and support process of recovery and reintegration back in the community.
The engineering Degree is completed in 9 Months @ only 40% of the current Tuition fees in any Oil & Gas Institution . It's the shortest and the most affordable program in the Oil & Gas Syllabus in Uganda. Our Students are awarded degrees from Internationally recognised Institutions from UK, USA and Dubai.Travel overseas for hands on training. Visa fees , Air ticket fees all inclusive in Tuition fees. Get immediate job placement with World renown Oil drilling and producing Companies Worldwide.
To sponsor one or two students from our IMI supported communities in Jinja, please contact us on dishma.imhs@gmail.com or call +256774336277.
However, able students from Africa and around the world would like to benefit from low-cost oil education in Uganda are welcome.
Thursday, July 28, 2011
Is there Good and Bad Corruption?
Jacob Waiswa
Peace and Conflict Center
P.O. Box 7062,
Makerere University
Kampala-Uganda
jwaiswa@arts.mak.ac.ug
The word corruption has widely been used to mean misuse of public and digressing to the norms of administration within an organization. It involves buying favors, or paying for assistance –where such payments are not necessary. It also about incompetence and failure to deliver public goods as obliged by virtue of holding a public office.
As a consequence of corruption, the poor have failed to benefit from national development initiatives as the funds are swindled long before they trickle down them. Because the political and economic structure denotes that the very few privileged people far aloof, funds fail to trickle through when they are tasked to implement development programs.
Yet, successful program implementation will mean breaking the structure along with their privileges -a huge cost they will not want to see. According to them, peace is peace if the structure is preserved as long as possible. Any attempt to break it comes with serious losses of human life.
A ruling dynasty has shaped up like that of the legendary banana republic who control the national economy with a handful of friends and those who through compromise succeed at breaking the thick protective dynastic wall.
The services or infrastructure build are either appalling or short-lived. Officials who are charged with ensuring the implementation of government programs employ many middlemen –with whom to share huge commissions while leaving less or nothing evident on the ground. That can be frustrating for those who cannot buy the favors or give tokens of appreciations in order to genuinely receive government services.
There are, however, instances were upon satisfaction of work done or in helping process a need to its final stage, a beneficially may feel so happy that he or she gives a token of appreciation to the government representative.
The disadvantage, though, is that while tokens of appreciation mutually benefit both parties and may be for the common good, it could become a norm in the near future. It would mean an obligation of every Ugandan to have money every time nations seek public services –more so quality ones. Here the poor ones lose out.
Ability to offer rewards makes some people more powerful than the others. In case of political elections, it is never easy to win without a powerful wealthy source of money. No wonder, incumbents in Africa are diamonds to break in nation’s general elections. It is ever the opposition politicians who cry foul.
It is made even worse when government moves to break opposition parties’ source of funding that are interpreted as a strong motivation to overthrow government. Foreign governments that offer support to the opposition are soon labelled enemies of the regime while individuals involved are promptly arrested and charged for treason.
It is irresistible for the rural poor to accept money given when back home there is no food. Such a temporary motivation to love a leader who until election time was not concerned about them worked for the incumbents.
The rural areas are homo-ideological, most inclined to the present and respond easily to fear of the unknown and threats from government representatives. It, for a long time, becomes tooth and nail to change such a government democratically.
The same is the case with 'generosity': if misery of the population penetrates the heart of a leader, he or she donates items or money to improve their lives. To the Ugandan politician, donation is never so parse, but political capital for reinvesting themselves into the lives of their electorate.
In the other sense, the donation goes on to build strong links and relationship between the donating person or country and the recipients. Such a relation is never easy to break down as the case with the national resistance movement and the rural majority supporters. Despite dying due to simple and preventable diseases, dropping out of school and massive starvation, the relationship remains unshakable.
Within corruption, now, are opportunities for engaging it. Non-government organizations are mushrooming to benefit from the desperate need to arrest the situation. However, with corruption well socially, economically, culturally and spiritually structurally made concreted one wonders whether those organizations will not fall prey by compromising with the big corruption system that has been seen grow over years.
Showing generosity and appreciation is not limited to politics; it all begins from the relation between two dating individuals, forming a family and that family getting absorbed into the wider society. At the level of courtship, it will be a show of power through giving generously –considered good for a romantic relationship.
The same will be at famine level when children are initiated into earning money as a reward for doing well or to support good behaviors. Besides, it can be argued that good corruption is one that supports mutual relationship while the bad one destroys it, which guarantees fairness rather than discriminate and limit achievement of citizens’ dreams. We can only avoid corruption if we can avoid the good and bad corruption. How possible is that?
Peace and Conflict Center
P.O. Box 7062,
Makerere University
Kampala-Uganda
jwaiswa@arts.mak.ac.ug
The word corruption has widely been used to mean misuse of public and digressing to the norms of administration within an organization. It involves buying favors, or paying for assistance –where such payments are not necessary. It also about incompetence and failure to deliver public goods as obliged by virtue of holding a public office.
As a consequence of corruption, the poor have failed to benefit from national development initiatives as the funds are swindled long before they trickle down them. Because the political and economic structure denotes that the very few privileged people far aloof, funds fail to trickle through when they are tasked to implement development programs.
Yet, successful program implementation will mean breaking the structure along with their privileges -a huge cost they will not want to see. According to them, peace is peace if the structure is preserved as long as possible. Any attempt to break it comes with serious losses of human life.
A ruling dynasty has shaped up like that of the legendary banana republic who control the national economy with a handful of friends and those who through compromise succeed at breaking the thick protective dynastic wall.
The services or infrastructure build are either appalling or short-lived. Officials who are charged with ensuring the implementation of government programs employ many middlemen –with whom to share huge commissions while leaving less or nothing evident on the ground. That can be frustrating for those who cannot buy the favors or give tokens of appreciations in order to genuinely receive government services.
There are, however, instances were upon satisfaction of work done or in helping process a need to its final stage, a beneficially may feel so happy that he or she gives a token of appreciation to the government representative.
The disadvantage, though, is that while tokens of appreciation mutually benefit both parties and may be for the common good, it could become a norm in the near future. It would mean an obligation of every Ugandan to have money every time nations seek public services –more so quality ones. Here the poor ones lose out.
Ability to offer rewards makes some people more powerful than the others. In case of political elections, it is never easy to win without a powerful wealthy source of money. No wonder, incumbents in Africa are diamonds to break in nation’s general elections. It is ever the opposition politicians who cry foul.
It is made even worse when government moves to break opposition parties’ source of funding that are interpreted as a strong motivation to overthrow government. Foreign governments that offer support to the opposition are soon labelled enemies of the regime while individuals involved are promptly arrested and charged for treason.
It is irresistible for the rural poor to accept money given when back home there is no food. Such a temporary motivation to love a leader who until election time was not concerned about them worked for the incumbents.
The rural areas are homo-ideological, most inclined to the present and respond easily to fear of the unknown and threats from government representatives. It, for a long time, becomes tooth and nail to change such a government democratically.
The same is the case with 'generosity': if misery of the population penetrates the heart of a leader, he or she donates items or money to improve their lives. To the Ugandan politician, donation is never so parse, but political capital for reinvesting themselves into the lives of their electorate.
In the other sense, the donation goes on to build strong links and relationship between the donating person or country and the recipients. Such a relation is never easy to break down as the case with the national resistance movement and the rural majority supporters. Despite dying due to simple and preventable diseases, dropping out of school and massive starvation, the relationship remains unshakable.
Within corruption, now, are opportunities for engaging it. Non-government organizations are mushrooming to benefit from the desperate need to arrest the situation. However, with corruption well socially, economically, culturally and spiritually structurally made concreted one wonders whether those organizations will not fall prey by compromising with the big corruption system that has been seen grow over years.
Showing generosity and appreciation is not limited to politics; it all begins from the relation between two dating individuals, forming a family and that family getting absorbed into the wider society. At the level of courtship, it will be a show of power through giving generously –considered good for a romantic relationship.
The same will be at famine level when children are initiated into earning money as a reward for doing well or to support good behaviors. Besides, it can be argued that good corruption is one that supports mutual relationship while the bad one destroys it, which guarantees fairness rather than discriminate and limit achievement of citizens’ dreams. We can only avoid corruption if we can avoid the good and bad corruption. How possible is that?
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