Introduction

The purpose of the BA in Local Governance and Human Rights is three fold: first to develop student’s an understanding of the workings of local government and the processes of the decentralization system; second to help students analyze local problems and come up with ideas to enhance sustainable development; third to equip students with a deeper knowledge human rights. Courses under this program place emphasis on increasing students’ understanding of the managing local government activities and issues of decentralization geared at development. They further help students to understand the scope and limits of international human rights principles and institutions. The bachelor’s degree programme takes a total of 156 credit hours plus 12 credit unites for the dissertation. To complete studying the module and the reader totals to 8 contact hours for each module.

Course objectives

1. To promote participation in development based on decentralized governance;

2. To participate in the promotion of better public administration and people’s participation in planning;

3. To increase knowledge of human rights at the domestic, regional and international levels;

4. To understand the political, social, economic status of local governments;

Students who complete the course successfully will acquire:

1. Knowledge necessary in the development of local settings;

2. Skills for planning and managing public goods;

3. A critical understanding of the principles and institutions of international human rights, including their origins, assumptions, contents, limits and potential; and

4. An improved ability to think analytically about the implementation and development of international human rights and to apply these rights professional and national settings.

(Source: Uganda Martyrs University website)