ABSTRACT
What impact do administrative reform programmes have on the state, working as they do within a régime of post-conditionality? In the following sections, I will trace some of the salient features of the post-conditionality governance state in Uganda and Tanzania. This will involve less attention to the technical aspects of change, for example the extent to which a new personnel management system is ‘working’, and more attention to changes in political structures and processes. In the first section, we will look at the changing role of the two key ministries in respect to donor-funded administrative reform programmes: the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Public Service. In Uganda, these ministries are: the Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) and the Ministry of Public Service (MPS) respectively; in Tanzania the ministries are: the Tanzanian Ministry of Finance (TMF) and the Civil Service Department (CSD) respectively.1
