From Social Accountability to a New Social Contract? The Role of NGOs in Protecting and Empowering PLHIV in Uganda. Issue 8 (2nd August 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bukenya, Badru
• Is Part Of: Journal of development studies. Volume 52:Issue 8(2016)
• Page Start: 1162
• Page End: 1176
• Publication Date: 2016-08-02
• Subjects: Economic development -- Periodicals; Economic history -- 1945- -- Periodicals; Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals; Développement économique -- Périodiques; Histoire économique -- 1945- -- Périodiques; Pays en voie de développement -- Conditions économiques -- Périodiques; 338.91
• DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2015.1134775
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-0388

Abstract

Abstract: Social protection and social accountability initiatives are increasingly promoted as mechanisms for securing a new social contract between states and citizens in developing countries. Evidence from Uganda suggests that social protection programmes with built-in accountability arrangements led by non-governmental organisations (NGOs) can enable states and citizens, in this case people living with HIV and AIDS, to 'see' each other in different and more positive ways, and as such can provide clues as to how such interventions can help build a social contract at the local level. This finding helps counter critical concerns that NGOs tend to depoliticise state–society relations and undermine accountability.