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CoMPlIMenTArY ProgrAMMeS

social protection: the

role of local governments

in delivering the scg

n Uganda, social protection is increasingly disbursement of cash to programme beneficiaries).
seen as an important part of government’s In this article, we focus on the work of the local
effort in addressing vulnerability, fighting governments. The Ministry of Gender, Labour
poverty and promoting economic growth. and Social Development (MGLSD) entered into
IThe Third National Development Plan (NDPIII) a (MoU) with district local governments to lead
underscore the need for social protection for the the day to day implementation of the SCG, which
vulnerable sections of the population, but also MoU specifies the roles and responsibilities
as one of the mechanisms to build the country’s of the Ministry and of the DLGs in the SCG
human capital. implementation.
Putan Daniel, In delivering the Senior Citizen’s Grant (SCG), In Uganda, local governments and administrative
Operations Specialist, the ESP programme works with a number of units are either rural (district, county, sub -county,
ESP programme
stakeholders in the value chain, including the parish/ward and cell)) or urban ( city, division,
National Identification Registration Authority municipal, municipal division, town council,
(NIRA) (provides identification of data used to parish/ward and village). The administrative units
target beneficiaries), the Ministry of Public Service of local governments comprise of administrative
(screens out pensioners from the data base), officers and technical planning committees
the Ministry of District Local Governments (lead the day to who are respectively in charge of accounting
gender, labour day implementation), and the Payment Service and coordination as well as monitoring of the
and social Provider (Centenary Bank Uganda responsible for implementation of sectoral plans.
development
entered a
Memorandum of
Understanding
(MoU) with
district local
governments to
lead the day to day
implementation of
the scg

Pioneer households in the pilot districts have become more productive, which helps explain their large increase
in expenditure

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