Contextualising the role of local community foundations in evolving international development paradigms COMMENT | HASHIM WASSWA MULANGWA | Localisation has recently become a topical issue in international development debates, and in a recent speaking engagement on international philanthropy and its intersection with local community foundations, I had the opportunity to …
Read More »The tragedy of the 1986 NRA/M revolutionary
By Hashim Wasswa Mulangwa January 26, 2014 marks 28 years since the National Resistance Movement/Army (NRM/A) of President Yoweri Museveni came into power. I have been thinking about what this milestone means to me, and trying to reflect on what it probably means of other Ugandans. You see the nature …
Read More »Changing Uganda’s development debate
By Hashim Wasswa Mulangwa Our leaders spend more time talking about why Africa has not developed than on creating capacity A few weeks ago the Central bank held its 21st annual Joseph Mubiru memorial lecture, under the title “Unlocking Africa’s growth potential- aligning decision making to implementation and delivery”. One …
Read More »Uganda’s middle income status by 2017
By Hashim Wasswa Mulangwa It requires the GDP per capita to double in the next four years; from current US$500 to US$1,000 President Museveni, in his State of the Union Address today on June 6, made the same claim he has made numerous times before; that Uganda will be a …
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