RE: Enhancing funding and service delivery in agriculture: any ideas? | Eval Forward

This is a very interesting and challenging question. Unfortunately, I cannot be optimistic about solutions. it all depends on tax basis to generate the revenues needed to finance government services. Please visit the webpages on Financially Suppressed Economy and Financially Stalled Governments and see how accurately they describe your situation in Uganda. You might also look at the Uganda page on the Consumer Price Comparison. The problem is "no taxes, no services".  Trying to provide services that are not adequately funded usually results in the services becoming corrupt and civil officers looking seeking necessary supplemental income by claiming to provide the services. Please note that in countries like Uganda about 90% of the smallholder farmers have never been involved with government programs or met with an agriculture officer either extension, research or other. Yet they still survive and evolve. The links: 

https://smallholderagriculture.agsci.colostate.edu/financially-suppress…;

https://smallholderagriculture.agsci.colostate.edu/financially-stalled-…

https://smallholderagriculture.agsci.colostate.edu/consumer-price-compa…;

https://smallholderagriculture.agsci.colostate.edu/impact-of-financiall…;