Benon C. Basheka

Kabale University · Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences

Presidential candidates who have faith in judicial supremacy often turn to the courts for redress when they lose presidential elections because the courts often rely on technicalities and the substantiality test to determine the elections. One such technicality is the substantiality test. This paper examines, with the use of selected examples, the...

For most developing countries, public procurement is a fertile ground for corruption in Government. In Uganda, specifically, corruption in public procurement involves the abuse of the procurement processes and diverting from established legal frameworks takes a multitude of forms. It is perpetuated procurement planning distortions, through supplier...

The paper examines the contributions of cooperative and saving societies in poverty reduction in Lango and Kigezi sub-region. The study adopted a comparative and cross-sectional survey design where bivariate and multivariate data analyses were used to analyze the data. Specifically, correlation and regression analysis were done to determine the rel...

Public administration scholarship of the 21st century has tended to focus more on recent paradigms of New Public Management (NPM) and its successor paradigm of governance while largely ignoring the strong foundation of century old paradigms of public administration. This approach, if persistently allowed in African universities, will create a serio...

There is no doubt that public administrators in their pursuit of efficient public service delivery to the citizens need knowledge of law. Lawyers too need to understand the workings of administrative systems as law is practised in such systems. This position was highly recognised in ancient and classical discourses of public administration and by s...

Risk identification is the basic stage in the risk management process and if correctly and regularly done, it ensures effective risk management in any given organization. This paper examined how operational risk identification influences staff performance of Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP). The study majorly employed a quantitative approach using...

World over, researchers and risk managers have become increasingly interested in analyzing risks affecting performance of organizations; Kampala Metropolitan Police (KMP) is not exceptional. This paper examined the relationship between risk analysis and staff performance of Kampala Metropolitan Police. A mixed methodology approach was applied to ac...

Over decades, indigenous management practices and their values in Africa have changed from time to time. However, it continued to remain relevant in most business organisations in developing countries. Today in Africa and across the globe, there is a paradigm shift and stiff competition in human resource management practices as a basic element for...

Background: The need for evidence-based decision-making scaled up the need for monitoring and evaluation systems in Africa. The education sector has received increasing scrutiny, owing to its centrality in promoting the national agenda of countries. The higher education sub-sector has expanded in its drive to increase accessibility, albeit with num...

An understanding of the influence of contractor monitoring on performance of road infrastructural projects in Uganda provided an impetus for this study. The objectives of the study were to: assess the relationship between contractors monitoring and performance of national road infrastructure projects and the relationship between contractor monitori...

The general objective of the study was to examine effectiveness of the role of public sector monitoring and evaluation in promoting good governance in Uganda, with a focus on Ministry of Local Government. Specifically, the study sought to: examine out how effective role of M&E accountability, M&E Management Decision, M&E Organisational learning in...

The African continent has suffered a rather tormented history, following different historical epochs like shadows of colonialism, conquest, neo-colonialism, global capitalism and foisting upon the western organizational management/leadership practices. The indigenous systems of governance are so much neglected that they hardly receive the significa...

Performance measurement has increasingly become central to the efficiency and effectiveness of any government – developed or developing. The introduction of public sector reforms, which transferred most service delivery obligations to the private sector under the New Public Management (NPM) doctrines, demanded a strong performance measurement frame...

This paper establishes the importance of good governance in improving local livelihoods and support for conservation. The study uses empirical realities from Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, an afromontane Gorilla sanctuary that was recognized by UNESCO in 2005 as a world heritage due to its rich biodiversity. Governance is an important procedura...

Active and systematic engagement of key stakeholders at all levels, from policy-formulation to health service delivery is crucial for success of any health system. In this study, we assessed the perspectives of Lower Local Government (LLG) stakeholders on utilization of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) services; and their roles in North Western Ugan...

This paper is a preliminary analysis of decision making principles and practices with in the pharmaceutical industry. The subject of managerial decision making in the sector forms an important area of research and policy debate and it has of recent become a much prominent sector for obvious reasons. First, the pharmaceutical industry contributes to...

This preliminary theoretical paper seeks to set the stage for an empirical study to identify the critical determinants of new venture creation in Uganda using Kirznerian perspective of entrepreneurial opportunities framework. The lack of a developed theory in extant literature that provides comprehensive explanation of how new ventures emerge in th...

Corruption in public procurement has been a menace to the innocent poor citizens through denial of better services. While many good legislation and institutional frameworks have been set in place to fight corruption in Uganda; the results remain disappointing. The recent procurement reforms in Uganda (from 2003 to date) are yet to yield substantive...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the determinants and constraints of effective contract management and its implications on service delivery since public procurement authority has persistently reported low compliance levels as far as contract management is concerned. Empirical research in this area is relatively sparse. Data was collected usi...

This paper focuses on the use of Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) as a strategy to address deficiencies in the energy sector of Uganda in order to remedy the power generation shortage in the country. Public Private Partnerships have become popular and gained wide adoption in public sector management though with varying degrees of success especial...

Bad governance is regarded as one of the root causes of all evil within our societies. Good governance ought to be participatory, consensus-oriented, accountable, transparent, responsive, effective, efficient, equitable, inclusive and follows the rule of law. In our context, it assures that corruption is minimised, the views of minorities are taken...

2Public Procurement and Disposal of Public assets Authority, Uganda. Accepted 12 December, 2011 Traditionally, the success of projects is measured on time, cost and quality parameters; although, most construction projects in Uganda have not performed well on each of these parameters. In this paper, we identify important indicators that are useful f...

It is now over a decade since poverty reduction strategies were embraced by Uganda as a one of the preconditions to reach the debt relief completion point associated with Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative. Between 1997 and 2008, the Poverty Eradication Action Plan (PEAP) was the overarching planning framework for the country. The PE...

This paper examines the extent to which the prevalence of organisational conflicts in the Central Division of Kampala Capital City Authority in Uganda is a function of procurement planning variables. The results were obtained from a triangulated case-study design, which used both quantitative and qualitative approaches. The sample size of 186 respo...

In the public sector, the issue of efficiency and effectiveness (value for money) is now a key governance agenda. Electronic procurement has become prominent in the language and strategy of the public sector effectiveness in both developed and developing countries. E-procurement is currently one of the key topics in the e-government arena; many org...

This paper examines the economic and political determinants of public procurement corruption in Uganda. Using data from 548 respondents in the public, private and NGO sectors of Uganda, the paper identifies critical economic and political determinants of public procurement corruption in Uganda. All over the world, the attention of policy makers, ac...

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) has become a top management concern in companies within different sectors and the growing telecommunications sector in developing countries cannot be an exception. This paper reports results of an investigation into the effect of CSR initiatives by MTN-Uganda on the development of local communities. The results...

Public procurement reforms (PPRs) in developing countries have been implemented for the last ten years through a number of legal and institutional changes. To assess the extent to which central and local government procuring and disposing entities (PDEs) in Uganda were compliant to the procurement legal framework, the Public Procurement and Disposa...

Agriculture is the most important sector in Uganda's economy because it employs 77% of the population aged 10 years and older (NDP, 2009). In 2008/09, the sector accounted for 24% of total GDP and accounted for 47% of total exports in 2007 (UBOS, 2009). Agriculture is the basis for much of the industrial activity in the country since most industrie...

Agriculture is the most important sector in Uganda's economy because it employs 77 percent of the population aged 10 years and older (UBOS, 2005). In 2008/09, the sector accounted for 24 percent of total GDP. Agricultural exports accounted for 47 percent of total exports in 2007. The sector is also the basis for much of the industrial activity in t...

and poverty reduction. “A ordable nancing mechanisms can help farmers and agricultural businesses to build assets, enhance their credit rating and build self-sustaining, pro table enterprises” (AGRA et al., 2009). Investments in agriculture research has led to the development of new agricultural technologies which have helped to increase yields, im...

Investments in agricultural value chain contribute to economic growth, agricultural development, food security, and poverty reduction. " AAordable mechanisms can help farmers and agricultural businesses to build assets, enhance their credit rating and build self-sustaining, prootable enterprises " (AGRA et al., 2009). Investments in agriculture res...

Urban agriculture extension has taken a demand driven approach because of the market liberalization demands. The study that underpin this policy brief shows that only 18% of the urban farmers receive government extension workers on their farms quarterly an indication that the demand driven government extension service may not be regular in urban ce...

The nutrition of a population is crucial it has been shown to aaect the economic growth, poverty reduction and productivity of a nation (UBOS 2000). The study conducted to establish the relevance of agriculture policies to nutrition of children less than years show that Uganda still has persistent malnutrition in all part of the country. There has...

This paper examines the relationship between institutional framework and management systems on one hand and unethical behaviour in procurement management on the other hand. It explores the extent to which institutional and management systems could be the determinants of the increasing unethical behaviour in local government procurement systems in K...

Incl. bibl., abstract In accordance with the recommendation concerning the status of higher-education teaching personnel approved by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 1997, higher education institutions and their academic personnel have long been expected to exercise their intellectual capacity and their moral prestige to defend and acti...

Procurement planning is one of the primary functions of procurement with a potential to contribute to the success of local government operations and improved service delivery .It is a function that sets in motion the entire acquisition/procurement process of local governments. Despite this importance, very limited scientific research has been done...

While particular government activities create a fertile ground for corruption (Tanzi, 1998), public procurement has increasingly become one of the dominant fertile grounds for this 'monster' of corruption. Corruption continues to be a usual suspect among the factors that distort the effective delivery of public services in developing countries and...

The contribution of planning in facilitating an efficient and effective performance of public sector organizations is generally undisputed in both developed and developing countries. Its contribution can be at both central and local government levels of public sector management. This article examines the relationship between procurement planning an...

In recent years, public sector performance and its capacity to delivery services has received a renewed focus given the declining morals and increasing levels of corruption. There is hardly any country in the world that has escaped the incidence of corruption in Public procurement (Arrowsmith, Linarelli & Wallace (2000); a reality that generated a...