Measuring The Effectiveness Of Public Procurement And Service Delivery In Uganda A Case Study Of Mubende District Local Government

Abstract The study aimed at measuring the effectiveness of Public Procurement and Service delivery in Uganda. Specific Objective of the study were to measure the effectiveness of Public Procurement and services delivery in Uganda, to examine the influences of different stakeholders and service delivery and to establish the factors affecting service delivery in Mubende local government, A sample of 100 respondents was selected and approached by the use of simple random sampling method and interviewed at different levels. The study found out public procurement has an effect on service delivery, public procurement doesntt help to direct resources to the right beneficiaries, resources of the District are not distributed basing on the set policies and procedures and Accounting Officer remains with due responsibility on all matters concerning receiving & reporting of government funds, lastly different procurement roles are appropriately assigned to different personnel during Procurement process. A number of factors were found to be affecting service delivery in Mubende district local government and these include the following among other factors; corruption, poor communication with communities, timing of service delivery. The study concluded that there is bigger effect of public procurement on service delivery with a score of 3:2 response questions that respondents agreed upon. This implies that better public Procurement leads to better delivery of services while poor public procurement hampers the delivery of services. The study recommends that i. Government should increase & quicken funding for the maintenance of community & feeder roads. Corruption should be reduced by enforcing of strict rules, giving penalties on those involved & also increase salaries of the civil servants can reduce on corruption. Concerning limited skilled personnel, the LG should train the recruited workers so as to equip them with necessary skills & also provide student loans and encourage them to go for further studies.