KIJHUS Volume. 5, Issue 1 (2024)

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Mpiira Robert, Isabirye Joel, Barongo Eleanor. K & Mutegeki Patrick. B
 

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Skills development Cash transfers In-kind transfers Household income
 

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Skills development, cash and in-kind transfers and financial inclusion, and poverty alleviation in Wakiso district.

Abstract: Although reducing, poverty remains one of the major development challenges globally. A plethora of community development intervention strategies have been executed over the years to alleviate poverty but the empirical studies to date have produced controversial results. The controversy arises from differences in context (time and space), conceptualization of development and poverty, and the methodology used. Based on the alternative and human development theories, this article analyses the nature of relationships that skills development, cash and in-kind transfers and financial inclusion have with household income. It also analyses if and how the relationships vary in the respective communities. The study used quantitative methods, deploying a cross-sectional design, to collect data for a two-week period from a sample of 1,659 respondents from four communities (Namayumba, Busukuma and Masulita Sub-counties and Namayumba Town council) in northern Wakiso district, who were selected through stratified random sampling and judgement sampling. Data were analysed using descriptive and inferential statistics. Results reveal that the significance and direction of the respective relationships of skills development, cash and in-kind transfers and financial inclusion with household income and the change in household income vary from community to community. Additionally, establishing predictive models requires adding other explanatory variables some of which are unquantifiable. Consequently, findings back the alternative and human development theories regarding the contextualization of community development intervention strategies. They also confirm the complex nature of poverty and development. However, there is need to study these relationships in other geographical contexts.
 
 
 

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