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UNDP staff slept on job while assessing Bidco for BCtA project

By Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye The United Nations Development Program’s   staff blundered when they characterized environmental risks related to Bidco as “ Moderate ” and indicated that Bidco was a strong candidate for membership in Business Call to Action BCtA , Part of the  Social and  Environment Compliance Unit SECU report, faults staff   for pursuing limited due-diligence approach while engaging with Bidco.   The UNDP form used while engaging Bidco for membership in Business Call to Action BCtA, contravened with the Risk Assessment Tool RAT directive to provide details for the criticism against the Candidate Company as well as obtaining public statement on how the candidate companies address the issues raised and how the same scenarios are prevented from reoccurring. Instead , the UNDP form used to asses Bidco,   requested   for limited disclosure but still   some relevant risks were listed by the UNDP staff but they did not fol...

State Broadcaster, UBC, irrelevant and dysfuntional-UCC

By Nankwanga Eunice Kasirye  The Dr Peter Mwesige Review committee on Uganda Broadcasting Corporation UBC has released its report on the company indicating that UBC is marred in debts and cannot afford to pay salaries and benefits of its staff. The company has been mismanaged, chronically underfunded and not treated like a public institution of strategic value… part of the report reads. The report reveals that the public takes UBC as ruling party mouth piece instead of the state broadcaster. Government commitment to UBC has been half hearted with limited effort to guarantee secure predictable funding that can allow medium and long term planning. The broadcaster itself has done little to secure independence and remain relevant in the eyes of the pubic According to report the regulator, UCC, has discredited UBC as completely irrelevant and dysfunctional and it is just for giving people addresses The committee recommends that UBC is very important public institution wit...