ACFODE Prepares 11 Districts for Local Governance Assessment and District Peer Review Mechanism

As one of the components under the project, "Action for Strengthening Good Governance and Accountability", Action for Development (ACFODE) together with implementing partner Konrad Adeneuer Stiftung (KAS) will next year conduct a local governance assessment and District Peer Review Mechanism (DPRM) in the 11 districts of project implementation aimed at assessing the state of democratic governance at the local level with specific emphasis on democratic values and principles, good governance, accountability and human rights and rule of law.

The DPRM will actively involve stakeholders from the district and will consist of a self-assessment together with a peer review among the districts through exchange visits. 

In preparation for the above activities, 4 regional training workshops for selected participants from civil society and local councils from the districts of Jinja, Pallisa and Soroti in the East; Kabale, Kisoro, Mbarara in the West; Arua, Pader, Lira in the North and Kiboga as well as Masaka in the Central region were conducted in the month of November. 

Associate Professor Yasin Olum facilitates a session during the Northern Region training workshops for the Assessors who will conduct the local governance assessment and DPRM

Through these workshops, targeted civil society actors and local councilors who had been trained earlier in this project were prepared for the task of conducting a local governance assessment which will take place in January 2013.