{UAH} Call for a Book Chapter - Planning Uganda

Many African states, at least those in the Global South with the exception of the Maghreb countries have structurally shown little success in uplifting their people through local governments. Local governments are the first step into understanding society's or community needs in what might be a participatory or network governance system so typical in still rural communities that covers large parts of  the African continent.
This is critical especially where the state has limited reach in terms of specialised and professional state institutions, machinery and public workers. Furthermore, variegated cultural practices show that what works in one community might not be expressly acceptable in another community. It can be building contemporary housing, a bridge, a community road, setting up commercial farms or a commercial business. It is an expression of difference in values that cuts across the political, judicial, social and economic spectrum.
Exceptionally though, and the main trajectory of this book, is to understand why the above isn't limited to communities but extends through the African elite, who might see overall planning as a threat to their private interests that are so common for instance, when it comes to issues of ownership or right of possession of, land and property, procurement of projects, and securing administrative positions, business competition and holding political power positions.
The above leads partly to internal administrative strife and stallment and later to be blamed on lack of physical planning, financial prudence, institutional dysfunction or outright governance issues that are generated by it.Over the years, practicing planners namely economists, engineers, architects,politicians, sociologists, and physical planners have in different forums highlighted the underlying issues but rather independently within their own professional fields.
The book will anchor a Physical Planning perspective for above fields within the planning processes and project implementation examples as an integrative interdisciplinary theme where the elites for instance in participatory or network planning would stall decision making conditions without regard to community, local  or professional concerns and try to answer the question therefore why local planning hasn't been done to solve standing welfare and poverty issues?
In suggesting to write a book about these hurdles, (call them hurdles for if they were problems they wouldn't have been solved elsewhere) it is an attempt to bring forward an enlightened view of Uganda's traditional but also contemporary planning flaws, failures and successes into one place where they can be thoroughly discussed to project a viable physical planning model.

 Bwanika  (mail me uidcug[@]gmail.com

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