Politics 13 March 2026 Parliament of Uganda
PAC Probes Delays in PDM Digital Monitoring Platform Rollout
Uganda's Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has questioned the slow rollout of the Parish Development Management Information System (PDMIS), fearing it might launch too late to effectively oversee the Parish Development Model (PDM) programme. The system aims to track beneficiaries, fund disbursements, and measure impacts of the government's key poverty alleviation initiative. Source: https://www.parliament.go.ug/news/4294/pac-queries-delayed-rollout-pdm-monitoring-system
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC), chaired by Hon. Gorreth Namugga, expressed alarm over the delayed deployment of the Parish Development Management Information System (PDMIS) during a session on 10 March 2026.
PDMIS, created by the Ministry of ICT and National Guidance with other partners, is meant to monitor PDM beneficiaries, track fund flows, and evaluate outcomes at the village level across over 10,000 parishes.
Lawmakers worry that the sluggish progress could weaken oversight of this multi-billion-shilling effort, launched in February 2022 to shift rural households from subsistence farming to a money economy. Each parish receives around Shs100 million yearly for activities in agriculture, livestock, and small enterprises, with disbursements starting in January 2023.
Namugga demanded a detailed update on the platform’s status and benefits, calling PDM a flagship NRM government initiative that must deliver as promised.
Peter Ogule, a Senior ICT Infrastructure Engineer from the Ministry of ICT, described PDMIS as a modular tool integrating programme pillars like household registration, community profiling, financial inclusion for the Parish Revolving Fund, and monitoring modules to analyze nationwide performance.
Source: Parliament of Uganda