Ruhakana Rugunda, Uganda’s prime minister Ruhakana Rugunda.
Prime Minister, Ruhakana Rugunda, has assured donors that government is doing all that is possible to streamline the operations of its departments in handling project funds intended for development.
Rugunda,who was on Thursday 22, September addressing the 3rd national partnership forum 2016, maintains that sometimes they are challenged with poor corporation in project implementation with citizens, contract challenges among others that will soon be out of the way as the country strives to attain her target of a middle income status by 2020.
The assurance follows the resent World Bank directive recalling requested funds from the body by government which it failed to utilize in the specified time period.
“We are fully away of the challenges and I assure you that we are now working round the clock to rectify challenges and bottle necks that have for long been hindering government departments and agencies from expeditiously absorbing the requested funds,” Rugunda said
However, the chairperson local development partners group that comprises of ambassadors and donor agencies urged government t to exhibit the highest levels of transparency and accountability to citizens as this is the only way Uganda will be able to attain faster social, economic growth but also castigates the poor and low implementation of programmes by government agencies and departments saying this has dragged development in Uganda.