| dc.description.abstract | This study discusses the resourcing component of the social protection for the economic
empowerment of the elderly in Koboko district. The research focused on investigating three
fundamental questions of understanding the sources of funding for social protection, the factors
that determine its accessibility and provision to the elderly and the possible strategies to promote
the provision of social protection services to the elderly. The study employed multiple designs
and approaches to investigate the quest for knowledge in this area and thus the study was
primarily rooted in interpretive phenomenology as the main overriding design. Meanwhile, case
study design and narrative design were used as a supplementary design to interrogate the social
protection needs of the elderly. Above all, the study anchored these designs on the transformative
paradigm to change the statuesque of the participants, in this case, the elderly. Data were
collected using in-depth interviews, focus group discussion and observation. This data was
organized and analyzed using ATLAS. ti based on the thematic, narrative and content analysis
that suits the selected designs of this study. The findings of the study reveal that SAGE, pension
and Gratuity, NSSF and other mainstream programs like the NAADS, NUSAF3, and PRDP 3
were the main sources of funding for the elderly in the district. The study found out issues of
poor health, limited funding, and housing as some of the issues affecting the policy
implementation. As a result, the study recommends rigorous financial strategies by the
government, undertaking reforms and reviews on the policy guidelines like the age factor,
decentralizing the policy implementation and evaluation to the local government, improving
housing and infrastructure development of the elderly and pursuing public-private sector
arrangement and as well as strengthening multi-sectoral mechanisms with the relevant
government Ministries, Departments and Agencies. | en_US |
