Publisher's Synopsis
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Politics - Region: Africa, grade: 2,3, University of Göttingen (Institut für Politikwissenschaften), language: English, abstract: This thesis examines the sanitation situation in Uganda as its case where the current coverage is the outcome of interest. The first five chapters are going to set the frame for the research question: How does process-tracing explain the current access to sanitation in Uganda as its outcome of interest? Only a few vital activities connect every human being on this planet. Breathing, drinking, eating, social interactions and defecation. This thesis sheds light on the most culturally reserved topic: The access to sanitation facilities. Most recent developments raised the public profile of one of the most private acts in societies. The United Nations and its Human Rights Council finalized the human right to sanitation in 2015. This setting builds the global basis for this thesis. The thesis analyzes a single case with the method of "process-tracing". The thesis is going to construct the case in the "Object of Investigation" as its second chapter. It defines the access to sanitation, the global and Ugandan data of coverage, and essential aspects of implementation. The third part is going to present current publications in the diverse field of interest for this paper. The thesis formulates a theoretical foundation for the analysis, the author's perspective, and language. It establishes postcolonialism as the theory for the national and international development. The fifth chapter constructs the method process-tracing which shall functionally guide the analysis. In the sixth chapter, the thesis answers the research question in three sections. First, it analyzes the internal process from the colonial period till today; it includes the political sphere, the judicial frames, an economic perspective, and the immediate provision of sanitation facilities. The second part is going to look at non-stat
