DOI: 10.36347/sjahss.2021.v09i02.001

Pages: 38-45

This paper analyzed Church of Uganda retirement policy funding and implementation a case of CoU Buganda dioceses with the objectives of analyzing CoU the relationship between funding and policy implementation and. examine the effect of funding on policy implementation. In 2010 CoU sanctioned her retirement policy with the objective of improving the welfare of the retired clergy, albeit this implementation, funding has remained a major impediment to an effective implementation of the policy. This paper employed a mixed methodological approach of both quantitative and qualitative nature for data collection and analysis. Findings revealed that (a) Dioceses in Buganda region had a low commitment as far as funding of retirement policy is concerned, this was confirmed of the descriptive analysis that portrayed that the total (Mean = 2.7, SD = 1.1) implying that effective retirement policy implementation could not be realised with just a fair contribution from dioceses and that the implementation had an average rate of (Mean = 3.08, SD = 1.30) according to the descriptive analysis The findings therefore concluded that CoU retirement policy implementation was still wanting due to inadequate funding which exposes the retired clergy to myriads of life challenges and that CoU needs to come up with funding strategies in order to facilitate effective implementation of the policy.