Local Youth advocacy forum participates in local government budgeting meeting.

Kichwamba Monitoring of Service Delivery Advocacy Group (KMSDAG) members on Tuesday, 7^th August 2012 participated in the Kichwamba Sub County budgeting meeting which was also attended by the Sub County local councilors and Sub County Speaker. The meeting was held at Kichwamba Sub County Headquarters in Kabarole District.

According to the sub county speaker, the main objective of the budgeting meeting was to improve the quality of life for the local people by making a budget which will improve the incomes of the local people and also improve service delivery.

Kichwamba Youth attending the meeting...

“The budget should also be focused on the millennium development goals and address programme priority areas as set out in the national strategy for development especially vision 2025.” Said the Sub County Speaker.

During the budgeting meeting, youth from KMSDAG advocacy forum identified their priority areas as production so as to reduce unemployment among the youth, environment and natural resources, road and bridge construction, construction of parish offices and halls, improved budgetary allocations to primary health care, improved sanitation and extension of safe drinking water, education support, improved budgetary allocations to Sub County land surveying to reduce on government land grabbing and increased funding to community based services.

The youth also advocated for the change of the Sub County staff motivational policy by attaching it to performance on revenue collection so that staff can work to improve on the revenues of the Sub County for improved service delivery. 

The youth further appealed to the Sub County Speaker and the local councilors to allocate the Sub County budget according to the priority areas set by them.

The youth advocacy forum was formed to monitor service delivery and improve youth participation in local government planning and budgeting processes in Kichwamba Sub County, Kabarole District. The advocacy forum is supported by Toro Development Network.

Documented by Akugizibwe Solomon.