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The Relevance (Why the course is being taught)

The purpose of the Diploma in Local Governance and Human Rights is to develop students on issues of local government and help them to participate in the process of decentralisation. Secondly the programme develops the understanding of workings of local government and the processes of introducing the decentralisation system in Uganda. The component of human rights in the programme helps students to develop the ability to make a contribution to the field of understanding and upholding human rights. The diploma programme takes a total of 72 credit hours where to complete studying the module and the reader totals to 8 contact hours for each module.

Courses under this programme place emphasis on increasing students understanding of managing local government activities and issues of decentralisation. They further help students to understand the scope and limits of international human rights law principles and institutions. At the end of the study programme, students will gain capacity to think analytically about the further implementation decentralisation in their professional setting.

Specific Objectives

  1. To improve service delivery at local levels

  2. To promote principles of decentralisation

  3. To promote a better public administration

  4. To enhance professional understanding of international human rights at the domestic, regional and international levels;

  5. To enhance ability to think analytically about the further implementation and development of international human rights generally and in the context of local governance and African setting;

Learning Outcomes

Students who complete the course successfully will:

  1. Have knowledge of working in a decentralised government

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

  3. Be able to apply the concepts of good governance and Human Rights in solving their problems and dealing with everyday situations;

  4. Have an analytical thinking about the implementation and development of international human rights and to apply these rights professional and national setting;

(Source: Uganda Martyrs University website)

 

Course Entry Requirements

At least five (5) passes at “O” level (UCE) or its equivalent and one relevant principle and two subsidiary passes obtained at the same sitting at “A” level (UACE) or its equivalent or a post “O” level diploma / certificate.

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