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    Determinants of Sustainability of Charity Educational Non-Governmental Organizations in Post-War Situations: A case of Gulu District, Uganda
    (Uganda Management Institute, 2015-01) ALOBO, Susan Toolit; Onen, David(Supervisor); Namubiru, ProscoviaSsentamu(Supervisor)
    The study sought to establish the determinants of sustainability of charity educational NGOs in post war situation; a case of Gulu District. It was prompted by the drastic number of educational NGOs that were either closing their shops or eliminating the education component from their activities. The researcher adopted a cross sectional survey design, used structured questionnaires, interview guide and observation checklist to collect raw data, analysed by descriptive analysis and the SPSS program. The findings revealed that sustainability is enhanced by; use of appropriate implementation strategies that are participatory and involved all stakeholders. It indicated that sustainability subsisted on a strong resource base and depended on diversified strategies to bring in more resources. Favorable legal environment, sustainability policies as well as the roles and involvement of the founders, enhanced educational NGOs sustainability. It concluded that; NGOs have clear implementation strategies, affected by inadequate and insufficient funds. Sustainability of the NGOs greatly depends on legal environment, shaped by government and donor policies. More NGOs are religious founded and owned, although others exist. Founders provide various supports to the NGOs thus ensuring sustainability. The study recommended that governments should evenly distribute its structures in all rural areas; NGOs should use alternative local resource mobilisation options and twin during fund application. NGOs should operate within government and donor legal frameworks. Policies guiding NGOs founders and staff’s behaviors will ensure quality service delivery. It also recommended the need to investigate other methods of resource mobilisation opted for by NGOs; investigate further the legal environment most respondents were undecided about and develop and verify the model of educational NGO’s sustainability in post-war areas.
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    Project Planning and Performance of the Health Centre iv Programme in Kabale District, Uganda
    (Uganda Management Institute, 2014-11) KALIBA, Paul; Onen, David(Supervisor); Karyeija, G.K.(Supervisor)
    This research was a correlation survey aimed at finding out relationships between project planning and performance of the Health Centre IV (HC IV) Programme in Kabale District motivated by the nationwide poor performance of the Programme. Project Planning was investigated in respect of scope definition, estimating and scheduling while performance was measured in terms of completion of project components within time and budget as well as functionality of completed facilities. The study sample included 26 officials involved in planning at the district comprising of members of the District Councillors, the District Health Technical Team and the District Technical Planning Committee. Data was collected using a structured questionnaire for the majority of respondents and face-to-face interviews of top district officials. The study findings revealed that planning for the Programme was unsatisfactory. Resources required were neither fully established nor accurately estimated before implementation and estimates were not based on the local conditions. Scheduling for equipment supply and staff deployment was overly delayed. Management of construction was inappropriately assigned to the district that lacked the necessary competencies. Allocations for operational expenses were grossly underestimated. Performance of programme was overly poor. All components were completed late and with cost overruns and there was a scope creep of 40% when the number of HC IVs was increased from 5 to 7. Worse still, all the 7 HC IVs in the district were not offering the intended emergency obstetrics care. Finally, the study established that there was a moderately strong positive correlation between planning and performance of the Programme which implies that the poor performance of the programme in Kabale district could be associated with poor planning. To revamp the programme performance, therefore, it may be necessary to review the requisite planning processes.