[{"bbox": [96, 152, 1136, 367], "category": "Text", "text": "governance, accountability, social inclusion and economic growth. Under NDP III, Uganda is transitioning from sector-wide to programmatic planning, budgeting, implementation and reporting. GSP of NDP III brings together the sectors of Accountability, Justice, Law and Order (JLOS), Public Administration and Security. GSP comprises of over 30 institutions and six sub-programs⁴ and aims to improve adherence to the rule of law and contain security threats. These objectives are to be achieved through capacity strengthening, policy and regulatory reform, and improving service delivery, business processes and systems. The key results to be achieved over the next five years include attaining an improvement in Uganda's scores on the Corruption Perception Index from 26 to 35 and to increase the Democracy Index (The Economist) from 6.5 to 8.6."}, {"bbox": [96, 393, 1135, 478], "category": "Text", "text": "In addition, with its strong focus on leveraging digital technology for better accountability and governance, this action is also aligned with the government's Digital Transformation Roadmap, which includes a target of providing 80% of government services online by 2025."}, {"bbox": [96, 506, 1136, 934], "category": "Text", "text": "This action will build on the progress made and lessons learned from development programmes implemented in recent years aimed at enhancing good governance, respect for human rights, accountability and anti-corruption (including DGF, JAR, GIZ's Governance and Civil Society Programme, GAPP, SUGAR)⁵. Through these programmes, progress has been made in integrating social accountability in government service delivery and in the extractives industry, at reinforcing anti-corruption programming at national level and fostering coordination amongst accountability institutions.⁶ These programmes have also helped to improve links between national systems and local level governance and at fostering community-based monitoring and accountability mechanisms. The action will also be carried out in full complementarity with global and regional level initiatives aimed at fighting illicit financial flows in Africa, including money-laundering and the financing of terrorism and organized crime, as well as national level interventions such as the Civil Society in Uganda Support Programme (CUSP) II. The action will also contribute to creating an enabling environment for activities promoting business in Uganda under the SB4U platform. This will notably include synergies with SB4U activities under the Skills, attitude, governance and anti-corruption (SG+) project aimed at training companies in eGovernment services with a view of eliminating public procurement related corruption, private-sector reporting of corruption as well as the promotion of public-private dialogue and advocacy with government entities on corruption."}, {"bbox": [96, 960, 1136, 1160], "category": "Text", "text": "Additional springboards for this action are a number of pre-existing multistakeholder coordination fora. These include the Inter-Agency Forum (IAF), representing all accountability actors mandated to fight corruption in Uganda; the Zero Tolerance to Corruption Policy Steering Committee consisting of state and non-state actors; the Accountability and Access to Justice sub-programmes under the GSP; the Karamoja Regional Protection Meeting that meets quarterly and has facilitated documentation, coordination and case follow up on human rights and security issues in that sub-region; and the development partner-led Accountability and Democracy and Human Rights Working Groups."}, {"bbox": [96, 1188, 1136, 1387], "category": "Text", "text": "At EU level, the action is aligned with NDICI-Global Europe in its promotion of democratic governance, the rule of law, the universality and indivisibility of human rights and fundamental freedoms, gender equality and the inclusion of vulnerable groups. It is also informed by the EU Action Plan for Human Rights and Democracy, the Gender Action Plan III, and the EU MIP 2021-2027 for Uganda, with special reference to priority area 3: Promoting Democratic Governance and Social Inclusion. At global level, the action is aligned with UN human rights instruments to which Uganda is a state party and UN SDGs 1 (poverty), 5 (gender), 10 (inequality) and 16 (peace, justice and institutions)."}, {"bbox": [85, 1476, 1143, 1526], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁴ a) Democratic processes, b) policy and legislative processes, c) access to justice, d) refugee protection and immigration management, e) security, and f) anti-corruption and accountability."}, {"bbox": [85, 1525, 1143, 1598], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁵ Multi-donor Democratic Governance Facility (DGF) funded by the EU; Justice and Accountability Reform (JAR) budget support programme funded by the EU; Governance, Accountability, Participation and Performance (GAPP) funded by USAID & UK AID2016-2019; and Strengthening Uganda's Anti-Corruption Response (SUGAR) 2016-2020 funded by UK AID & EU."}, {"bbox": [85, 1598, 1143, 1647], "category": "Footnote", "text": "⁶ GiZ's programme in particular has strengthened tripartite coordination among the Office of the Auditor General (OAG), the Inspectorate of Government (IG) and the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (PPDA)."}, {"bbox": [1038, 1682, 1143, 1706], "category": "Page-footer", "text": "Page 6 of 25"}]