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Assessing the Factors Influencing the Growth of Slums in Urban Local Governments of Uganda: A case Study of Soroti Municipality
(Uganda Management Institute, 2011-02) PADE, Joseph Walter; Basheka, Benon(Supervisor); Moki, Abubakar Mohammed(Supervisor)
This study was an investigation into the factors that contribute to the growth of slums in Uganda, with Soroti municipality as a Case study. The objectives of the study included: to establish the effect of urban poverty on the growth of slums in Soroti municipality; to find out the contribution of the system of land tenure on the growth of slums in Soroti municipality; to find out the contribution of urban planning framework to the growth of slums in Soroti municipality. The study employed a cross sectional survey design and used both qualitative and quantitative techniques in data collection. The study population was 1302, from which a sample of 310 was selected. The quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson coefficients, and regression analysis. Qualitative data was summarized and quoted or paraphrased in some cases. The findings revealed that, Land tenure had a correlation of .452** towards the growth of slums. Urban planning framework had a correlation of .573**, towards the growth of slums in Soroti municipality. The Coefficient of poverty was 0.328, implying that its effect on Slum growth was 32.8%. Basing on those findings, the researcher came up with a number of recommendations among which were that; Government should provide more funding to SACCOS and deliberately introduce the housing component in their framework to enable the urban poor save for housing development, this should be coupled with establishment of housing finance institutions with affordable interest rates. Government should initiate land banking programmes to provide land for social housing for the urban poor. There should be a deliberate policy to build capacity of local authorities on urban planning and management coupled with an urgent programme for restructuring of urban local Governments to provide enough personnel for urban planning and development control. There should also be massive sensitization programmes throughout the country to create awareness among the communities on urban planning and development control processes and allocation of conditional funds purposely for urban planning activities in the country.
Institutional challenges affecting Procurement Audit Management at the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority (Ppda) in Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2010-09) KWESIGA, MBABAZI LYDIA; Basheka, Benon(Supervisor); Turamye, Benson(Supervisor)
The purpose of the study was to examine the institutional challenges affecting procurement audit management at the Public Procurement and Disposal of Public Assets Authority’s (PPDA) that had hindered its expansion amongst the Procuring and Disposing Entities (PDEs) countrywide. As of June 2008, PPDA had only conducted forty two (42) procurement audits out since inception. Therefore, the main objective of ensuring transparency, accountability and value for money of government funds in order to reduce corruption in the procurement sector was not fully achieved. In order to achieve the objectives of the study, a sample frame was selected from PPDA staff, consultants contracted to carry out procurement audits and Procurement Officers of audited PDEs. Data was collected using an interview guide, interview checklist, self-administered questionnaire, observation checklist and analysis of secondary data while it was measured using the ordinal scale, the chi-square and regression model analysis. The study established that PPDA received insufficient funds due to budget cuts. Therefore, procurement audits were not funded as required. The PPDA too lacked technical expertise in procurement and also had insufficient human resources and the labour turn over was high. Outsourced firms too lacked capacity as well as the PDU. The structure at PPDA was lean, hence bureaucratic in nature and encouraged collective responsibility. The contingency or situational theory was suitable for the management of procurement audits if PPDA was to cover all government institutions as well as save the country billions of monies lost through misprocurements. There should be increased funding and human resources towards the procurement audit function if PPDA and government were to achieve the desired goal of building confidence in public procurement.
Procurement Management and Road Construction Project Perfomance in Uganda National Roads Authority
(Uganda Management Institute, 2012-02) NAKONDE, Zaituni; Basheka, Benon(Supervisor); Oluka, Pross(Supervisor)
This study was focused on examining the effect of procurement management on road construction projects perfomance in Uganda National Roads Authority. The study was premised on the assumption that the prevalent poor performance of the road construction projects in Uganda National Roads Authority could be explained by three dimensions of procurement management namely: procurement planning, procurement organization and procurement control. The study adopted a cross sectional case study design, data was collected from 71 people of the following categories; UNRA Directors, Project Managers, Project/Station Engineers, Procurement Officers, Contracts Committee Members, Senior staff of Supervising Consultants and Senior Staff of the Contractors. Data was collected using questionnaires, interview guides and Documentary checklist and were analyzed using descriptive statistics and inferential statistics. The study empirically revealed that procurement management explain a total variance of 22.4% in the performance of road construction projects in Uganda National Roads Authority, with procurement planning explaining only 2.2 %, procurement organization explaining 9% and procurement control explaining 11.2 %. The study then concludes that procurement organization and control have a significant effect on the performance of the road construction projects in Uganda National Roads Authority. Although the study revealed that there was a very small effect of procurement planning on road construction project performance, it is recommended that improvement in some aspects of the procurement planning is necessary. Under procurement organisation and project performance, it is recommended that UNRA should endeavour to improve the aspects of role and obligation definition and ensure that all the players in the project implementation abide by their roles and obligations. Lastly it is recommended that that UNRA through its departments should ensure adequate designs and specifications, close supervision and monitoring as well as limiting the scope changes and adhering to contracts
Procurement Planning as a Tool for improved Accountability in the United Nations Development Program Projects in Uganda
(Uganda Management Institute, 2010-10) AGABA, Caroline Charity Lindah; Basheka, Benon(Supervisor); Mwesigwa, Hilda Kemigisha(Supervisor)
The objectives of the study were centred on the effect of procurement planning on accountability (financial, administrative and managerial) as well as the moderating effect of institutional factors on the relationship between procurement planning and accountability for donor funds. A cross-sectional research design was adopted for this study. The study was conducted in five selected UNDP funded organisations and used a sample of 114. Face-to-face interviews were also conducted with the expected people and adequate data was obtained. Data was collected using interviews for the staff of the UNDP country office while the rest of the respondents responded to a self-administered questionnaire. Quantitative data was analysed using SPSS while qualitative data was content analysed. It was found out that the poor state of planning threatened, and had negative effects on financial, administrative and managerial accountability. It was also discovered that institutional factors (internal organisational weaknesses, political influence and donor pressure) were in most cases negatively correlated to the level of accountability and funds utilisation in the projects. Conclusively, there existed a strong and statistically significant relationship between procurement planning and financial accountability as well as administrative accountability. Managerial accountability was weakly linked to procurement planning, and institutional factors threatened the level of accountability and funds utilisation. It is thus recommended that government and the UNDP need to ensure that procurement planning principles are adhered to so as to enhance financial, administrative and managerial accountability. It was also recommended that measures should be put in place to overcome the moderating effect of institutional factors so as to enhance the level of accountability and funds utilisation. Areas of further research are recommended.