{"id":32070,"date":"2022-06-05T18:10:23","date_gmt":"2022-06-05T18:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society"},"modified":"2022-06-05T18:18:15","modified_gmt":"2022-06-05T18:18:15","slug":"pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society","title":{"rendered":"Pull the plug on non-compliant MDAs \u2013 civil society"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Uganda have asked the government to halt funding all Ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) that fail to submit their annual strategic development plans before national budgetary allocations are done.<\/p>\n<p>In a joint call made to Finance minister Matia Kasaija on Thursday, the CSOs said such failure frustrates government efforts to grow the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Julius Mukunda, the executive director of the Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG), joined entities like the Southern and Eastern Africa Trade Information and Negotiations Institute (SEATINI) and Advocates Coalition for Development and Environment (ACODE) in recommending punitive action.<\/p>\n<p>The entities were responding to the Parliamentary Committee on Budget\u2019s report presented last month by its chairperson, Mr Patrick Isiagi.<\/p>\n<p>The report named and shamed the Uganda Police Force, Ministry of Finance, Office of the Prime Minister, Uganda Virus Research Institute, Uganda Development Cooperation and Uganda Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n<p>Others include the Trade ministry, Uganda Road Fund, Hoima Regional Referral Hospital, Jinja Regional Referral Hospital, and Kawempe Referral Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf all ministries I wouldn\u2019t mind, but when I see the Office of Prime Minister has no approved strategic plan, I don\u2019t know what we are coordinating,\u201d Mr Mukunda said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kasaija was consequently tasked to explain how MDAs would be on track to deliver even without strategic development plans.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance minister stated that MDAs premise their plans on the overall plans in the third National Development Plan (NDPIII) processed by the National Planning Authority (NPA).<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, SEATINI executive director Jane Nalunga commended President Museveni for asking inflation-weary Ugandans to turn to cash-cum-food crops like cassava.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Nalunga said cassava \u201cis a food security product\u201d and that \u201cwe eat it from the roots up to the top\u2014the food, firewood and vegetables.\u201d She added: \u201cIt is [also] an industrial product because you can be able to make ethanol, starch and it is a key input in the pharmaceutical industry. We import a lot of starch yet we can generate it here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>MDAs without development plans<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Uganda Warehouse Receipt System Authority<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Office of Prime Minister<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Uganda Virus Research Institute<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Uganda Road Fund<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mulago Hospital Complex<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 National Lotteries and Gaming Board<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Kawempe Referral Hospital<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Uganda Development Corporation<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Uganda Police Force<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Jinja Regional Referral Hospital<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mission in India<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hoima Regional Referral Hospital<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Mission in France,<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Uganda Human Rights Commission.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\">Uganda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Uganda. Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Uganda have asked the government to halt funding all Ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) that fail to submit their annual strategic development plans before national budgetary allocations are done. In a joint call made to Finance minister Matia Kasaija on Thursday, the CSOs said such failure frustrates [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":32069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,12],"tags":[233,240,234],"class_list":["post-32070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-uganda","tag-uganda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pull the plug on non-compliant MDAs \u2013 civil society - Uganda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Uganda have asked the government to halt funding all Ministries, departments and a ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pull the plug on non-compliant MDAs \u2013 civil society\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Civil society organisations (CSOs) in Uganda have asked the government to halt funding all Ministries, departments and a ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Uganda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-06-05T18:10:23+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-06-05T18:18:15+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_5-629cf3508694b.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"800\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Pull the plug on non-compliant MDAs \u2013 civil society\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-06-05T18:10:23+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-06-05T18:18:15+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society\"},\"wordCount\":420,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/uganda\/sites\/34\/2022\/06\/postQueueImg_5-629cf3508694b.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Uganda\",\"uganda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"homepage-english\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/uganda\/all-news\/pull-the-plug-on-non-compliant-mdas-civil-society\",\"name\":\"Pull the plug on non-compliant MDAs \u2013 civil society - 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