From food to cash relief: How prepared are Uganda’s anti-corruption agencies to counter corruption in Covid-19 cash transfers?

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dc.contributor.authorTiberindwa, Zakaria
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-31T09:29:51Z
dc.date.available2022-10-31T09:29:51Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractIn July 2021, Uganda commenced the disbursement of telephonic cash transfers to the vulnerable urban poor, most adversely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, marking a policy shift from food relief to cash transfers to the vulnerable. Accountability hurdles had previously beset food relief interventions with allegations that the funds meant for food relief had been misappropriated. Some of these allegations led to the arrest of officials from the Office of the Prime Minister by the State House Anti-Corruption Unit. Whereas some of the previous studies have indicated cash transfers by telephone to be less prone to the fraud risks and challenges commonly associated with the bureaucracies of procurement, storage, transportation and distribution of in-kind items, there is also evidence that cash transfers may be susceptible to other risks such as political manipulation, ghost beneficiaries, and kickbacks from the local elites who may seek undue benefit from the cash transfer schemes.en_US
dc.identifier.citationTiberindwa, Z. (2022). From food to cash relief: How prepared are Uganda’s anti-corruption agencies to counter corruption in Covid-19 cash transfers?. Journal of Anti-Corruption Law, 6(1), 116-126en_US
dc.identifier.issn2521-5345
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/8095
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of the Western Capeen_US
dc.subjectCovid-19en_US
dc.subjectPublic healthen_US
dc.subjectAnti-corruptionen_US
dc.subjectCorruptionen_US
dc.subjectUgandaen_US
dc.titleFrom food to cash relief: How prepared are Uganda’s anti-corruption agencies to counter corruption in Covid-19 cash transfers?en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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