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- ItemThe impact of decentralisation on service delivery in Alerek Sub- County, Abim District-North Eastern Uganda(Kampala International University, College of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2016-09) Owilli, Jimmy RolandThis research study titled “Impact of Decentralisation on service delivery to the community”, was carried out in Alerek Sub- County Abim district in Uganda, which has five Parishes that is to say, Koya, Wiela, Otumpili, Loyoroit, and Olem Parish a sub county found in Abim district, the main purpose of the study was to examine the impact of decentralisation on service delivery in Alerek Sub- County, Abim district, The data was obtained through observation, interviews, and questionnaires as research instrument and has been presented quantitatively and qualitatively in table form. analysed by percentages and interpretation, a total of 60 Respondents were involved and selected from various departments within Alerek Sub- County. For objective one the findings on the concept/mechanism of decentralisation was involving local participation in the management of resources and politics; transfer of administrative, financial and planning from central authority to the local government at the grass root level; the study also found out the main effect of decentralisation being social participation. Easy access has been made in the social services like roads, schools, medical facilities and markets, the findings also revealed that communit’~ faces the challenges of corruption by the Local government officials, incompetence of some staffs. work load given to the staff at the local level. In light of the above discoveries, it was therefore recommended that there should be effective implementation of decentralisation policy, for example, consultation on the eligibility of the area to be decentralised if really it has the potentiality of implementation of decentralisation policy; increase in the treasury of the respective districts from the national budget irf order to make them capable of running their programmes these recommendation provide a ground for further and detailed investigations, in a bid to provide better corrective measures, the study suggested Decentralization and good governance as area for further research.