BKDS
Implementations Levels and Modalities
The
Buganda Kingdom Mission that will also guide the BKDS is: to facilitate
a strong and united kingdom, with self-generating development, its people
enjoying high quality of life and welfare, with the Kabaka and culture
as the foundation and fountain of this unity and development, within a
united Uganda. [The
concept culture here is intended to mean ‘that complex whole which includes
knowledge, belief (or values), art, morals, custom, values, law (social
norms or rules of conduct) and any other capabilities and habits acquired
by man as a member of a given society (Sir Edward Tylor 1871, in Horton
et al, 1984 Sociology). Culture is both material and non-material.]
The
basic principles that will guide the implementation of Buganda Kingdom
development initiatives through BKDS objectives will be:
(i)Active
participation: enabling maximum use of participatory methods in project
cycle,
(ii)Cost-effectiveness:
ensuring maximum use of the available resources for optimal impact,
(iii)Partnership:
seeking co-operation with other stakeholders for effective problem solving,
(iv)Teamwork:
ensuring maximum use of group resources and capacities,
(v)Commitment:
determination of Kabaka’s people to achieve the strategy objectives,
(vi) Innovativeness:
Blending cultural traditions and formal management resources,
(vii)Result-Oriented:
Desire to see and to show measurable or tangible results from each project
activity and step undertaken,
(viii)Loyalty
to the King: High level commitment of the Buganda people to the King’s
call for development,
(ix)Sustainability:
Planning and implementing projects that can sustain themselves after external
assistance has been terminated,
(x)Management
efficiency: getting the project activities done through planning, organising,
co-ordinating, communicating, staffing, innovating, monitoring and evaluation.
The
specific objectives of BKDS are:
(i)To
achieve a descent household income as a result of improved agriculture
and off-farm activities.
(ii)To
achieve food self-sufficiency at the household and community level.
(iii)To
attain improved quality of life through improved hygienic living standards
in homesteads and investment in health services programmes.
(iv)To
have a literate, skillful and competent society through investment in education
programmes.
(v)To
have an informed and alert society through the establishment of Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) programmes.
(vi)To
attain mastery of medium level technology in the field of production, processing,
commerce and environmental management.
(vii)To
attain commercial sector development through income savings and investment,
and entrepreneurship development, at the individual and organizational
levels.
(viii)To
have the women and youth and other disadvantaged social groups empowered
in attaining all the BKDS stated objectives.
(ix)To
have the people realize their potential and aspirations through appropriate
measures of socialization, mobilization, sensitization and enlightenment.
(x)To
have the institutions of culture, heritage and artifacts promoted as a
source of social discipline and income.
However,
special consideration will be given to the vulnerable groups, namely; the
old, Widow, Orphan, People with AIDS (PWAs), the landless, squatters, fishermen,
migrants, refugees and others. In brief, the proposed intervention programmes
will not only improve the capital asset and livelihood of the population,
but will also crease an infrastructure and institutions for technological
innovations and human resource development.
(i)Establishing
an all-participatory development mechanism revolving around the monarchy,
its administrative structures, and the Local Government System;
(ii)Setting
goals in rhythm with the Central Government’s overall development policies,
priorities and strategies, and synchronized and harmonized with the plans
and activities of the Local Authorities, the NGOs and CBOs in the Kingdom;
(iii)The
blending of the successful and cherished centuries-old traditional/cultural
practices and traits of traditional community mobilization and developmental
guidance and advocacy with the modern management systems to formulate the
BKDS management and implementation system;
(iv)Adoption
of Community Based and Participatory Approaches in programme planning and
development;
(v)The
rejuvenation of the popular self-help spirit, coupled with limited facilitation,
for the construction and maintenance of community-based infrastructure;
(vi)Exploitation
of cultural norms and values for the development of community infrastructure,
entrepreneurship and commerce;
(vii)Promotion
of oral history, Art and Drama as a vehicle for information dissemination,
community mobilization, fundraising, and participatory development;
(viii)The
availing of the BKDS as an efficient and cost-effective framework for the
implementation of the Central Government, the Local Administration, the
NGO’s the CBOs and the Donor Community grass-root community development
programmes and projects in the Kingdom;
(ix)Forging
partnership with the Central Government in poverty reduction process and
other relevant areas;
(x)Forging
partnership with the existing Institutions, Non-governmental Organizations
and the Private sector;
(xi)Identification
and Mobilization of locally available physical and human resources as a
means in program implementation process;
(xii)Mobilization
of financial, logistical and technical support from bilateral and multilateral
agencies;
(xiii)Networking
and seeking support from Ugandan Diaspora;
(xiv)Strengthening
the administrative and managerial capacity of the kingdom as a basis for
implementing the strategy;
(xv)Strengthening
monitoring and evaluation and accountability processes;
(xvi)Institutionalizing
‘Role modeling’ as a key requirement for all leadership in the Kingdom;
and
(xvii)Establishing
at all levels, the institution of the ‘Royal Reward System’ whereby excellent
performers, in recognition of exemplary performance towards BKDS success
(individuals or groups/communities), will be appropriately honoured.
(i)Suitably
developed under the BKDS by the Kingdom or in partnership with other organizations/bodies
for and with the participation of the targeted community; and
(ii)Implemented
by the targeted communities where the Kingdom/BKDS structure plays the
role of awareness creation, publicity, popular mobilisation and training,
provision of developmental guidance and positive coercion of the whole
or targeted sections of the Kingdom community, co-ordination of programme
activities, monitoring, and guiding the whole process to ensure programme/project
success.
Under
positive coercion, among other things, relevant authorities would be influenced
to pass relevant by-laws and policies that would (i) help combat immoral
behaviour, laziness, idleness, drunkardness, corruption, fraud, etc… and
(ii) facilitate the efficient and effective implementation of the BKDS
programmes/projects.
(i)facilitate
the target beneficiaries to form CBOs for the purpose of developing and
implementing viable projects within their respective communities,
establish
pilot or demonstration schemes deemed necessary; and
(ii)undertake
all the necessary steps and actions for sustainable implementation of the
projects.
Both
approaches will take stock and put into consideration the existing or proposed
projects by other stakeholders, for the purpose of coordinating and harmonizing
the interventions drawn under this strategy.
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