Kampala Citizens’ Charter project

With: Manuel Bosancianu, Grace-Edward Galabuzi , Ana Garcia_Hernandez

We have been working to gather citizen input to the creation of a citizens’ charter for service delivery in Kampala — an tool intended to enhance accountability.

As part of this work we have been able to get to learn about citizen input and citizen influence. In particular we get to ask:

• How can we best measure citizens’ degree of political power?
• How do gaps in voice relate to systemic responsiveness and ultimately unequal outcomes?

Through a close analysis of the Kampala citizen’s charter construction process we assess linkages between three distinct dimensions of political inequality:

• input: inequality in intensity of participation
• throughput: inequality in the system’s responsiveness to demands
• output: inequality in how much decisions favor specific individuals / groups

See:

• Registered Design
• Policy report (input to Kampala charter)

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