Service Delivery And Performance Of Poverty Alleviation Programmes In Kampala District, Uganda

Abstract

The study was set out to establish the state of service delivery and the performance of poverty alleviation programmes in the divisions of Kampala, specifically to examine the difference in the number of households accessing different health and hygiene services, the number of households accessing different community services, number of male and female beneficiaries from the Youth Livelihood programme and number of beneficiaries from different I-Serve youth volunteer Programmes in Kampala (from FY 2014/15 to 2017/18) in the divisions of Kampala. The study adopted a descriptive design where only quantitative approaches were utilized. Secondary data sources were used to study the state of service delivery and performance of poverty alleviation programmes in Kampala. Results revealed that there was no significant difference in the number of households accessing different health and hygiene services (F-value=0.03, P-value (0.970)>0.05), no significant difference in the number of households accessing different community services at 5% significance level (F-value=1.449, P-value (0.266)>0.05), no significant difference between the number of male and female beneficiaries from the Youth Livelihood programme (Mean difference=60 beneficiaries, P-value (0.6715)>0.05), no significant difference in the number of beneficiaries from different I-Serve youth volunteer Programmes at 0.05 level of significance (F-value=2.850, P-value (0.110)>0.05) and there was a significant difference in the number of beneficiaries from NAADs programme in the five divisions of Kampala from FY 2011/12 to 2018/19 (F-value=8.820, P-value (0.000) <0.05). The study concludes that there was an improvement in service delivery in different divisions of Kampala. The study recommends that there is need by the government to improve access to piped water in the divisions of Kampala.