Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization: Uganda National Workshop

Are tax systems providing governments with sufficient revenues to implement policies? Are rents from natural resources a substitute for declining aid? What are the linkages between domestic resource mobilization and donor relations in aid-dependent countries? And how do revenue policies impact on state-building and democratization?

These are some of the questions considered by the UNRISD project Politics of Domestic Resource Mobilization, for which research is currently being conducted in Bolivia, Uganda, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe.

On 24 and 25 September 2014, UNRISD is convening a national workshop in Kampala, Uganda for this project. This is the second national workshop after researchers met in Kampala in 2013, and following the general methodology workshop in Geneva held in May 2013. Uganda is the second case study country inviting external experts and stakeholders to discuss research findings and policy implications after Bolivia, where a workshop was convened in April 2014. National project workshops will also take place in Zimbabwe and Nicaragua in the coming months.

In the workshop the research team will not only have the opportunity to discuss the preliminary research findings with other experts in the field, but also strengthen the links with key project stakeholders. Participants joining the workshop therefore represent a variety of institutions active in the field of public finance in Uganda, whose feedback will further feed into the finalization of the research.

The following participants will join the discussions:

Research Team

Dr. Katja Hujo
Research Coordinator, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, Geneva, Switzerland

Dr. Anne Mette Kjær
Associate Professor; Uganda Country Research Team Leader
Department for Political Science and Governance, Aarhus University, Denmark

Dr. Marianne Ulriksen
Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Social Development in Africa, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa

Dr. Jalia Kangawe
Principal of the East African School of Taxation, Uganda

Dr. Mesharch Katusiimeh,
Uganda Christian University, Mukono, Uganda


Discussants

Ms. Annet Bazalilaki
Uganda Revenue Authority, Kampala, Uganda

Ms. Catherine Kansiime
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Kampala, Uganda

Dr. Daisy Owomugasho
Country Director, The Hunger Project Uganda, Kampala, Uganda

Prof. David J. Bakibinga
Professor of Commercial Law and Head of the Department of Commercial Law, School of Law, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda

Mr. Fergal Ryan
Component Manager, Voice and Accountability, Democratic Governance Facility (DGF), Kampala, Uganda

Dr. Francis Wasswa
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, Kampala, Uganda

Ms. Jane Seruwagi Nalunga
Country Director, SEATINI Uganda, Kampala, Uganda

Mr. John Bosco Mubiru
Development Research and Training, Kampala, Uganda

Prof. Joshua Rubongoya
Department of Leadership and Governance
Makerere University Business School

Mr. Pius M. Katunzi
Business Development Director, The Observer, Kampala, Uganda

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