Community participation in procurement as a tool for poverty alleviation in Ghana: a case study of Ghana Social Opportunities Project (GSOP).
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2016-11-04
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Community participation in procurement is very important especially in developing
countries like Ghana because it brings project sustainability. Procurement must
achieve certain specific social objectives, such us, alleviating poverty, developing
local entrepreneurship, creating employment etc. as a result, it is desirable in selected
project component to call for the participation of the local communities to increase the
utilisation of local know-how, goods and materials or employ labour-intensive. But
since the coming into force of the public procurement Act the good people of Ghana
still complain of serious unemployment issues and extreme poverty. It is against these
shortcomings that the study was conducted. The study employs a case study which is
a qualitative study design. The main instruments used for the data collection were
interviews and examination of documents. It was revealed that income-earning
employment was created for 64,400 persons through community participation in
procuring labour in the country and put a total of GHc 644,000.00 into individual
pockets. The study revealed that the community produced productive labour. Took
part in the selection of their project and were also involve in the monitoring and
inspection of the project. They participated in site meetings and played accountability
role. The results and discussions from the study have clearly confirmed the fact that
community participation in procurement is very necessary for a developing country
like Ghana. It also provides the opportunity for people in the community to get
income-earning employment to improve their living conditions. The community
participation in procurement as practiced by GSOP allowed the communities to select
their own project, provide labour to carry out the work, use their local materials but
not their local knowledge. The roles they play contributed greatly on alleviation of
poverty
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A thesis submitted to the Department of Building Technology, College of Art and Built Environment in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science, 2016