Unlike many laws in Uganda that go unimplemented, the Equal Opportunities Commission has ensured that government bodies comply with minimum standards of gender and equity, as required under the Public Finance Management Act, before their budgets are approved.
Uganda is the first country to make gender and equity compliance a legal obligation and the commission has openly named those who comply and shamed those who don't. Yet, the chronic refrain in Uganda is that vulnerable people - especially women, children, youth and the disabled - are not seeing the benefits of Uganda's much glorified economic growth and policy progress.
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