Inter-agency Collaboration for Graduate Employment Opportunities in Uganda: a Case for Investigating the Structure, Social Capital, and Agency of Organizations

Abstract

Africa’s population has grown from 477 million in 1980 to 1.25 billion people by 2017. Whereas this is expected to double to 2.4 billion people by 2050, there is uncertainty over the continent’s preparedness to provide opportunities for its youthful population (Hilson and McQuilken, The Extractive Industries and Society 1:104–118, 2014). Efforts by different stakeholders to create employment opportunities have been largely unsuccessful. Rae (Journal of General Management, 40:79–95, 2014) attributes this failure to the autonomous and individualistic actions of different agencies in executing their mandates. In doing this, they compete and conflict against each other which discourages efforts towards job creation. Taking cognizance of this anomaly, this paper urges research into the structure, social capital, and agency of organizations with the view to suggest ways of promoting the kind and level of collaboration that is desired among the organizations. The paper starts with an introduction, the context of graduate unemployment in Uganda, discusses the efforts of different agencies, a bit of literature review, the theoretical underpinnings, knowledge gap, a case study and what Uganda’s organizations learn from the Urban Partnership Program, and finally the conclusion.

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Correction to: Inter-agency Collaboration for Graduate
Employment Opportunities in Uganda: a Case
for Investigating the Structure, Social Capital,
and Agency of Organizations
Peter Dithan Ntale
1
&Jude Ssempebwa
2
&Badiru Musisi
2
&Holly C. Pope
3
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*Peter Dithan Ntale
pntale@mubs.ac.ug
1
Makerere University Business School, PO Box 1337, Kampala, Uganda
2
College of Education and External Studies, Makerere University, PO Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda
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Arnold School of Public Health, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA