Aboneka Writes

For long, food and nutrition has been given less attention and yet it is the major driver of human health. You cannot speak of a healthy nation and a vibrant economy while ignoring nutrition. Recently at the civil society review meeting of the Food and Nutrition Policy 2003, it was discovered that the responsible authorities are spending more time and money in the process rather than producing tangible results. It should be noted that more than two million children are malnourished and according to World Food Programme, malnutrition costs Uganda 5 per cent of its GDP and these are serious consequences on a nation like Uganda. I am aware that the ministries of Health and Agriculture have put in place strategies to tame this through various programmes but many are either pilots, or are still lacking the implementation infrastructure. In a bid to have a prosperous nation with happy and healthy people, the authorities should expedite the implementation of policies such as the mandat

Religion is a belief with traditions and set facts that individuals hold or believe in and this affects their well being. Religion has taken center stage in many aspects of life that is social, political and economic being of individuals. The universal Declaration of Human Rights provides that everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, wor¬ship and observance. This right is provided for every individual in any community of any nation and every nation domesticates this provision, for example Ugandan constitution provides for freedom of religion and even the penal Code makes it crime for anyone who sabotages one’s religion. Diana Deck in her teaching says that the most challenges in the world is trying to deal with this notion of diversity of religion. This i

Many people perceive leadership in different ways but what is important is to ask the question as to whether whatever kind of leadership provides what the citizens want and demand from the leaders. The type of leadership that is commonly practiced is the political leadership where leaders hold a social contract with the citizens who elect them into power. According to Robert Rotberg, governance is performance and the delivery of high political goods to citizens. These political goods include security, rule of law, participation and human rights and development. These goods are translated into the basic services like good roads, quality education, good health, better salaries and that the Governments are obliged to provide these to the community who elected them into power-the social contract. What therefore makes poor leadership is when leaders relax providing the good to the citizens and the citizens too lose trust in their leaders, when the bridge between leaders and citizens is