Speaker Edward SSekandi

Nsibambi said this at the official launch of the 2008- 2009 scorecard assessment of members of Parliament at Serena Hotel. The assessment report indicated improved performance from the legislators.

The Prime Minster has told members that turned up for the launch that the manner in which the Speakers preside over Parliament affects significantly the way other MPs perform for example they must have
skills to balance debates in the house and also guide MPs to rigorously follow the rules of Parliament.

He says their assessment could be based on the Speaker’s performance in Parliamentary debates or on their performances in the constituencies since that can easily be done than within Parliament.

AFLI through its scorecard assessment assesses all other members of Parliament apart from Speakers of Parliament and AFLI has decided not to include them in their assessment of the MPs because of their unique roles in Parliament for example they do not vote on bills and are required to be impartial on any matters of discussion on the floor.

Uganda parliament has two speakers, Edward Kiwanuka Sekandi and his deputy, Rebecca Kadaga.
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This comes after AFLI released a partial report of its third Parliamentary scorecard assessment that has shown improved performance of Uganda’s legislators in the latest report yet to be released fully.

Elly karuhanga

The Chairman of the Board of Governors AFLI, Elly Karuhanga has told journalists in Kampala that since according the reports so far released by AFLI, it can be said that the scorecard assessment of MPs has positively impacted on their performance with the latest scorecard showing that MPs registered remarkable improvement in that assessment.

Karuhanga says now they want to turn the torch to the Judiciary such that they can assess the Judiciary and hopefully their assessment of the Judiciary will help improve the performance of the custodians of justice.

He says that however they are approaching this matter with caution because unlike Parliament, assessing the Judiciary is a very sensitive issue that needs to be done with caution or else it backfires and that is why they have decided to first negotiate with the Judiciary such that they can come up with the best ways of assessing the Judiciary in Uganda.

In country where the judiciary is laden with a heavy case backlog, and as result forcing a number of people to be dissatisfied with its performance, and with several cases of corruption being reported in the judiciary, assessing the institution in the Judiciary will be a welcome development for many Ugandans to rate the 3rd arm of the state.

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The parlaimentary scorecard by AFLI

African Leadership Institute annually assesses the performance of the Members of Parliament though by publishing the Parliamentary scorecard which rates every MP’s performance.

While launching the partial report at Serena Hotel, the Chairman Board of Directors of AFLI, Elly Karuhanga told journalists that the performance of the MPs in plenary debates, committees and constituencies improved remarkably in the 2009 scorecard assessment compared to the recent years.

For instance the plenary attendance of MPs that was just 23% in the year 2006- 2007 has now climbed to 52% in the 2008- 2009 scorecard assessment.

Similarly, the participation of the MPs in plenary discussions continued to go up increasing from just 356 lines in 2006-2007 and now standing at 1915 lines in the 2008-2009 assessment.

Karuhanga also notes that the there is slight increase of the performance of MPs in committees from 40% in the 2007-2008 scorecard assessment to 43% in the 2008-2009 assessment and that the constituency performance has also remarkably improved with at least 65% of the constituents aware of telephone numbers of their Members of Parliament with only one legislator that had none of his/her constituents aware of her number.

The official and full report of the scorecard assessment will be released next week on Wednesday July 28 2010.

The report will be uneasily awaited by many MPs. Many MPs criticize the scorecard of AFLI due to the way AFLI collects data to be used for the assessment of the MPs.

See the last Parliamentary scorecard

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