Advancing the Ugandan Economy: A Personal Account

Appendix A: The Parish Model Operational Plan

1. A training course should be held at the National Advanced Leadership Institute at Kyankwanzi to train parish leaders about the economy and social services in the parish. (This was done from 2006 to 2009, and training has continued.) 2. The Uganda Cooperative Alliance should prepare a manual for circulation to rural areas on how to form and run cooperative marketing and storage services. 3. Parish leaders should be guided on how to organize a cooperative. This will cover finding a parish leader, forming a group of promoters, finding an office, opening a record book, opening a bank account, getting registered as a cooperative, and auditing the cooperative accounts. 4. The course for parish leaders at Kyankwanzi and elsewhere should train them in the following areas: —opening and maintaining parish registers with household data —opening and maintaining a land register, crop cultivation register, storage records, and the like —cooperative formation principles —microfinance formation and management —irrigation methods —food storage principles —encouraging savings discipline —determining parish supply capacity (parish GDP) —evaluating parish infrastructure such as health centers, primary education , and vocational education —determining parish unemployment The Parish Model Operational Plan Appendix A 199 23-2589-3 Appendixes:Cels 2262-5 3/20/14 8:42 PM Page 199 —determining parish demand for services —promoting trade within the parish, between parishes, and beyond —disseminating parish administration manuals —health clinic management —parish export management: product research, marketing outlets, grading , drying, packaging —database management for the parish —computation of parish GDP 5. The parish administrator should receive a monthly allowance as well as housing and two acres of land for own cultivation. The local area leader should also have a government motorbike and a mobile telephone. By 2011 government had distributed bicycles to the local area leaders and also instituted a minimal allowance. 6. The area member of parliament, the subcounty counselor, the local council 2 (LC2) chairperson, the LC5 chairman, and the LC3 chairman should form the parish area board of governors. The parish administrator should form the secretariat. 7. The parish budget could consist of the funds needed for the following: —trade infrastructure: storage facility —microfinance establishment —cooperative formation —census collection —other infrastructure, such as roads, education, water, health —administrative costs of the parish 200 Appendix A Source: Based on data from Uganda Bureau of Statistics,“Chapter 2: Population Size and Distribution,”2002 Uganda Population and Housing Census. Analytical Report (Kampala, October 2006), pp. 9–20 (www.ubos.org/onlinefiles/uploads/ubos/pdf%20documents/2002%20 CensusAnalyticalReport.pdf). 23-2589-3 Appendixes:Cels 2262-5 3/20/14 8:42 PM Page 200 ...