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Uganda's Parish Development Model: Factors to Prioritise to Guarantee Success in its Implementation by

Most of the micro socioeconomic transformation interventions that the government of Uganda has implemented since the 1990s have failed to achieve their objective of alleviating poverty by increasing household production, productivity, incomes and quality of life. Uganda has not reduced household poverty as expected. Instead, poverty has increased. For instance, household poverty increased from 19% in 2017 to 21.4% in 2021. The government has adopted the Parish Development Model (PDM) to reverse this trend by providing revolving funds that farming households (which are over 64% of Uganda's 9 million households) can use through parish SACCOs to increase their production, productivity and access to markets, thereby increasing their incomes and transforming from subsistence to the money economy. Using a cross sectional survey involving mixed methods approach, qualitative interview data was collected from eight planners and implementers of the PDM. Quantitative questionnaire data was collected from 250 beneficiaries. Qualitative data was analysed using qualitative content analysis. Quantitative data was analysed using descriptive and linear regression analysis. Findings reveal the political, economic and beneficiary factors to which government needs to pay critical attention to make the implementation of the PDM successful in achieving its objective of alleviating poverty by delivering benefits that enable its beneficiaries to improve their household incomes.

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