| dc.description.abstract | This study is about institutional involvement in poverty eradication. The objectives of
the study were to investigate and establish the major institutions involved in poverty
eradication activities in Teso District. To identify the institutional poverty eradication
intervention mechanisms and to establish the problems that hinders the institutions
activities.
The data was collected using both primary and secondary sources. Primary data was
collected using structured questionnaires. A study sample included a total of 90
respondents who were interviewed using the questionnaire. The secondary data was
collected from publications, journals, books, unpublished papers and poverty reports
from relevant development plans World Bank reports UNDP among others the data was
analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS). The research findings
revealed that a wide range of institutions are involved in poverty eradication efforts.
The involved institutions also employ a variety of interventions to address poverty. The
study findings also show that institutions face a number of problems that hinder them
from achieving their poverty eradication goals. The main problems include limited
financials, high poverty in the area, lack of coordination among institutions, poor
poverty eradication policies among others.
The study recommends that further research on a wide scale is needed to investigate
the role of institutions such as donor community, the church in poverty eradication.
There is need for a appropriate institutions. Poverty eradication policies to be revisited
and need for adequate implementation of appropriate poverty eradication policies. The
source of additional resources directed to institutions towards poverty eradication need
to be further investigated to minimize the problem of limited resource that the
institutions are faces with. | en_US |
