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The APPP’s Local Leadership training workshop took place in Entebbe, Uganda, May 3-7, 2010.
“Bride too beautiful?” Rwanda’s apparent success elicits debate at APPP’s Entebbe training workshop
The promising development policies Rwanda is undertaking have rattled development policy analysts, human rights activists and researchers alike. It was little surprise therefore that this also became a subject of debate at a training workshop for researchers of the APPP’s Local Leadership stream that took place in Entebbe, Uganda, May 3-7, 2010.
The meeting, whose main objective was to refresh the researchers’ minds with knowledge of ethnography and other research methods, was attended by researchers from Uganda, Malawi and Rwanda. At the workshop, the different country teams presented their latest results and their plans for the upcoming research phase.
Introducing his team’s plans for the next phase of the research, Team Leader for Rwanda, Dr Frederick-Golooba Mutebi, mentioned findings from the preliminary fieldwork which seem to suggest that Rwanda is on course towards big improvements in service delivery to its citizens.
Echoing the skepticism the positive development reviews of Rwanda has been generating among academics and development analysts, some participants at the workshop raised tough questions about Rwanda’s apparent success story. Was it sustainable and institutionally rooted? How much was it based on the personal decisiveness of the RPF with the no-nonsense President Paul Kagame at the helm?
“Part of the reason Rwanda is succeeding is simply because the post-genocide government realized very quickly what many African government and their donor partners took a long while to realize: the value of approaches that used to work since time immemorial and which correspond to local realities”, said Edward Munyaburanga, one of the Rwandan researchers. He cited the now popular institution “imihigo” (performance contracts that local mayors sign with the head of state), arguing that the picture his team’s report portrays is more than just a superficial representation of the policy goings-on in Rwanda.
Dr Golooba-Mutebi for his part expressed optimism that, since the upcoming phase of the research is longer, there will be opportunities to find answers to more of these difficult questions
The workshop, which followed a Learning Week in Accra, was facilitated by APPP Director, Prof David Booth, the Local Leadership Stream Leader, Dr Diana Cammack, and Dr Mutebi, who is country team leader for both Rwanda and Uganda.
By Bernard Sabiti
Date/heure: 3 to 7 May 2010
lieu: Entebbe, Uganda
Documents à télécharger
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APPP Working Paper 13, Towards a theory of local governance and public goods' provision in sub-Saharan Africa, David Booth, Aug 2010 Eng en savoir plus |
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