ABSTRACT
Uganda achieved economic growth rates of 8 per cent per year over the period of 2004 to 2008, but some seven million of its citizens are still chronically poor. The need for social protection (SP) services in Uganda is extreme in the wake and midst of civil wars, HIV/AIDS, natural disasters, changing macro-economic contexts, large household size, and increased life expectancy. The literature shows that the quality of governance can go a long way in determining the outcomes of any service delivery intervention, so a key question of the study that this chapter presents is how burial societies are governed. It shows that, despite their unconventional governance approach, burial societies in Uganda have consistently provided support services to their members over a long period of time. Control, accountability, and transparency were assessed in terms of how the leaders accounted to the members primarily through written or verbal reports during meetings.
