Planning Unit Mandate

The following legal instruments mandate the District Planning Unit to coordinate the Local government planning function

  1. Article 125 of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda (1995) and the subsequent Act of Parliament (Act No. 15 of 2002) creating the National Planning Authority (NPA) whose primary function is to produce comprehensive and integrated development plans for the country elaborated in terms of the perspective vision and the long-term and medium-term plans.
  2. Article 176, (subsec.2b) of the Constitution of the Republic of Uganda (1995 as amended) which adopts decentralization as the principle applying to all levels of local government and, in particular, from higher to lower local government units to ensure peoples’ participation and democratic control in decision making;
  • Article 190 of the (1995) Constitution of the Republic of Uganda which mandates and obliges District Councils to prepare comprehensive and integrated development plans incorporating plans of LLGs for submission to the National Planning Authority
  1. The Local Government Act, Cap 243 (Section 35 (1)) which designates District Councils as the planning authorities for the districts. The Act mandates the district technical planning committees to coordinate and integrate all the sectoral plans of lower level local for presentation to the district council (sect. 36, sub-sect. 2). The District Planning Unit Coordinates DTPC meetings
  2. The Public Financial Management Act 2015 Part II, Section9 subsections (1 & 2) where the Chief Administrative Officer in consultation with relevant stakeholders prepares a BFP for the vote, taking into consideration balanced development, gender and equity responsiveness and shall submit the BFP to the Minister by 15 November every financial year.

The above laws provide for decentralization, empowering local governments with the responsibility of:

  • Allocating public resources
  • Integrated participatory planning
  • Budgeting and
  • Investment management

Department profile indicating sector composition, Staffing and objectives Sector composition: The Planning function is fulfilled through seven sections namely;

  • District Planning
  • Planning office
  • Statistical data collection
  • Demographic data collection
  • Development planning
  • Operational planning and
  • demographic data collection

Objectives

  1. To facilitate the planning function in the District and Lower local governments in line with the District and National Development Plan and ensuring existence of District and lower local government development plans, annual work-plans and budgets
  2. To coordinate the District technical planning function
  3. To ensure a functional district statistical database
  4. To oversee/monitor the implementation of National and District priority programmes
  5. To ensure coordination of Central Government and Development partner programmes
  6. To coordinate the District monitoring and evaluation function for government policies and programmes
  7. To coordinate population issues in the District and ensuring integration of population issues/factors into development planning.

Summary of administrative units for Kamwenge District by county and sub-county

NO County Subcounty /Town Council Name No of parishes/wards No of Villages/cells/zones
1 Kibale Kamwenge Town council 5 26
    Kamwenge Subcounty 5 32
    Kabambiro 4 31
    Kahunge Town Council 4 21
    Kahunge sub county 3 32
    Kabuga town council 4 14
    Rukunyu town council 3 17
    Bigodi Towncouncil 4 14
    Busiriba sub county 5 32
         
2 Kibale East Biguli Town council 4 18
    Biguli subcounty 4 34
    Bwizi 3 39
    Nkoma subcounty 4 32
    Nkoma Town Council 4 15
    Bihanga Subcounty 2 17
    Lyakahungu Towncouncil 6 15
    Rwamwanja refugee settlement 13 45

Summary:

Subcounties 8
Town Councils 8
Refugee Settlement 1
Parishes/wards and Zones 62
villages 389

Current staffing levels in the District Planning Unit

Approved posts as per District structure No Filled Vacant
District Planner 1 1 0
Senior Planner 1 1 0
Planner 1 1 0
Stenographer secretary 1 0 1
Driver 1 0 1
Total 5 3 2

Mr Bakesiima Patrick

District Planner

Kamwenge

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