According to the CSBAG Executive Director, Julius Mukunda, the Climate Change Budget Compliance Assessment Report of 2024 indicates that the alignment of the 2024/2025 Budget Framework Paper to climate change integration averaged at 62 percent, which he said was moderately satisfactory.
According to CSBAG, understaffing and failure to fill critical positions in Local Governments such as heads of Departments are one of the major factors hindering quality and timely service delivery.
Rashid Taban, the programme coordinator Civil Society Organizations Koboko district, says they intend to reach out to all the 32 Members of Parliament from the West Nile region and convince them not to allow the proposed amendment.
Civil society organizations and leaders drawn from different parts of Karamoja for a dialogue on the new tax measures spoke in unison against the proposed tax.
Josephine Laker is the coordinator of Civil Society Budget Advocacy Coalition in Amuru district. She says Uganda has pressing development challenges that can only be achieved with collective tax responsibility.
The farmers are concerned that although agriculture is considered as one of the primary sectors meant to unlock the binding constraints to the transformation of the economy, it remains among the least prioritized sectors, compared to other sectors like public sector management and administration.
It is concerned about the increased budget indiscipline as observed from the consistent supplementary budgets requests from government ministries, departments and agencies. These requests, the group argues, lead to loss of huge sums of money through flouting public expenditure regulations.
