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INTRODUCTION
Nations the world over continue to grapple with the daunting challenge of making the public sector efficient and effective in ways that nurture the ideals of good governance. This has followed the wave of public sector reforms in Africa and elsewhere in developing countries, where the reinvention of government over the last two decades earmarked public accountability as part of the governance and development imperatives. While these reforms were spearheaded by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank, under whose aegis a series of debates on their worthiness as development strategies continues to rage on, accountability is nonetheless viewed as a critical ingredient in improving public sector management.
Part of the initiative has been to reorient the new public management1 (NPM) paradigm into local government where it seeks to break the rigid bureaucratic structures and open them up for people participation, transparency and responsiveness to community needs, in pursuit of the public interest. Likewise, the increasing volume of public sector literature places emphasis on broad structural and transformational processes in which local governments can become viable units for effective service delivery (Keen and Scase, 1998: 1), which effort rekindles accountability and good governance.
This chapter presents the general introductory background of the study which seeks to examine and evaluate the role of external control systems (through the watchdog agencies of the Auditor-General and the Inspectorate of Government) in the enhancement of accountability at the local government sphere in Uganda. The subsequent sections of this chapter highlight the rationale and motivation for the study, statement of the problem, the research objectives, significance of the study,and the articulation of the theoretical and conceptual framework upon which the study is hinged. This is followed by the presentation of the research methodology, the chapter sequence and definition of key concepts.
CHAPTER ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION AND STUDY BACKGROUND
1.1 INTRODUCTION
1.2 RATIONALE FOR THE STUDY.
1.3 MOTIVATION FOR THE STUDY .
1.4 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM.
1.5 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY
1.6 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY.
1.7 THEORETICAL AND CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK.
1.8 ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
1.9 METHODOLOGY
1.10 CHAPTER SEQUENCE
1.11 CLARIFICATION OF KEY TERMS.
1.12 CONCLUSION
CHAPTER TWO: ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND MANAGEMENT: A THEORETICAL EXPOSITION.
2.1 INTRODUCTION.
2.2 HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
2.3 DEFINING PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
2.4 GENERIC ADMINISTRATIVE FUNCTIONS.
2.5 DEFINING ACCOUNTABILITY .
2.6 FOUNDATIONS OF ACCOUNTABILITY.
2.7 CONTROL FUNCTION AND ACCOUNTABILIT
2.8 PUBLIC FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY.
2.9 ETHICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
2.10 ACCOUNTABILITY FORMS AND DYNAMICS IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT REFORM
2.11 CHALLENGES OF ACCOUNTABILITY IN PUBLIC MANAGEMENT.
2.12 CONCLUSION
CHAPTER THREE: ACCOUNTABILITY AS AN INSTRUMENT OF GOOD GOVERNANCE: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES.
3.1 INTRODUCTION
3.2 CONTEXTUALISATION OF GOVERNANCE AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
3.3 REGULATORY IMPERATIVES TO ACCOUNTABILITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
3.4 CORRUPTION: A QUANDARY TO ACCOUNTABILITY AND GOOD GOVERNANCE
3.5 ROLE OF CIVIL SOCIETY PARTICIPATION
3.6 INTERNATIONAL CONCERNS AND INITIATIVES
3.7 CONCLUSION
CHAPTER FOUR: LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND SYSTEMS IN UGANDA
4.2 HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS .
4.3 LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE AND SYSTEMS.
4.4 CONTROL INSTITUTIONS AND LEGISLATIVE FRAMEWORK
4.5 IMPLICATIONS OF LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURE/SYSTEM TO ACCOUNTABILITY
4.6 CONCLUSION.
CHAPTER FIVE: INSTITUTIONAL CAPACITY OF EXTERNAL CONTROL AGENCIES
CHAPTER SIX: OPERATIONALISING LEGISLATION AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK
CHAPTER SEVEN: ENHANCING LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS AND PROCESSES.
CHAPTER EIGHT: FACILITATING THE CIVIL SOCIETY TO ENFORCE ACCOUNTABILITY
CHAPTER NINE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS .
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