ACROSS THE NORTH-SOUTH SPAN : AN EXPLORATION OF CITIZEN INITIATIVES IN UGANDA AND NORWAY

Abstract

Whereas there is increasingly scholarly research on how citizendriven development initiatives contribute to the development of local communities in developing countries, it has so far tended to focus on foreign generated initiatives. Literature on how indigenous citizens’ initiatives also contribute to the development of local communities in developing countries remains scarce. In this thesis I thus focus on this gap in the literature. Through an exploration of Citizen initiatives in Norway and Uganda my argument is that the knowledge that the South represent in these collaborative efforts is of utmost importance and that acknowledging this is imperative.