Launch of National Social Service Delivery Equity Atlas Platform

On January 16, 2018, the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED), in partnership with Economic Policy Research Center and UNICEF Uganda, launched the online National Social Service Delivery Equity Atlas platform, which can be accessed through the MoFPED website.

The Atlas is part of the Rethinking Public Finance for Children: Monitoring for Results joint initiative. Leveraging on Government’s commitment to promote transparency and accountability in the use of public funds, this joint effort aims to monitor the effective delivery of national programs affecting children. Within the framework, the Atlas provides an intuitive approach to analyze the relationship between financial resources and sector outcomes. This new approach provides an interactive platform to analyze budget trends at regional and district levels with a focus on the impact of public investments on social outcomes like school completion, antenatal care or hand-washing. In doing so, it provides a clear blueprint of where public resources are reducing socio-economic inequalities among children and improving children’s lives, and where they are not.