Jane Mwesiga

Jane Mwesiga discusses capacity development efforts to improve human resources within the Ugandan public service.  She explains the major challenges Uganda faced in implementing public sector reforms, specifically the need for greater focus on the capacity of individuals carrying out reforms.  She discusses pay-reform strategy and the difficulty of motivating public servants with low salaries.  She outlines the long-term goals of reform for Uganda, specifically a review and restructuring across ministries to remove job duplication.  Mwesiga also explains efforts to reduce the pay gap between levels of public service employees.  Finally, she details the use of results-oriented management systems within the public service to continually evaluate performance, and she also explains the challenges of using that system.