Masindi District has two counties, with one Muncipality, six (5) rural Sub-counties and two (2) Town Councils. The District constitutes of thirty -two (32 parishes and three hundred and two (302) village councils.

The District Council is the highest political authority in the district, with 21 members under the headship of the District Chairperson. It has a technical team headed by the Chief Administrative Officer, distributed in 9 departments. Each of the departments has a head and, there are a number of Sections.

Number of Administrative Units by County

Source: Planning unit office 2017

Human Resource Management

Establishment of Masindi District Local Government

Source: Principal Personnel Officer’s Office, Masindi 2017

Council, Committees, Boards, and Commissions

The District Council is the highest policy making organ elected after 5 years that governs the District. The District council works through standing committees, statutory Boards and Commissions. District technical staffs that are headed by the Chief Administrative Officer implement council’s policies.

Executive Committee Members

The standing Committees of the council are Finance Planning and Administration, Information & Security, Social services, Gender, Youth and Disability, Works and Technical Services, Production and Marketing and Natural resources. Statutory Bodies are; District Service Commission, Public Accounts Committee, District Land Board and District Contracts Committee. The terms of these Commissions/Boards expire according to set guidelines.

District Service Commission (DSC)

Membership is non-political and civil service. Its role is to discipline, motivate and recruit staff. It comprises of 5 members, currently the district service commission has only three members are approved out of the five submitted to Public Service Commission.

Public Accounts Committee (PAC)

Like the DSC, membership of this commission is also of non-active political and civil service members. Its role is to review internal audit, Auditor General’s report in the interest of value for money. The committee comprises of 4 members with 4 males and one member is yet to be approved.

District Land Board
The board is comprised of 6 members of whom 3 are male and 3 female. The board is mandated to resolve land conflicts, approve land licensing; however, members for this board are yet to be approved by the respective Ministry.