Investigating the level of Municipal And District Assemblies compliance with environmental sustainability provisions of the public procurement act in the Upper West Region of Ghana
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2021-07-06
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The study investigated the level of Municipal and District Assemblies (MDAs)
compliance with environmental sustainability provisions of the Public Procurement Act
in the Upper West Region of Ghana. A joint method approach which comprises of
qualitative and quantitative method was employed for the study. Both primary and
secondary data sources were adopted for the study. Purposive sample was employed to
select key respondents for the study whilst simple random sampling technique was
adopted to select six Municipal and District Assemblies in the Upper West Region. A
total of 90 respondents were drawn from these Municipal and District Assemblies. A
questionnaire was administered to all the 90 respondent, out of that 30 were also
administered with interview guide. Key findings of the study revealed that respondents
were able to identify the environmental sustainability provisions in the public
procurement act. It was discovered that there is largely non-compliance of the
environmental sustainability provision mainly because respondents view environment
sustainability issues as trivial and non-significant. The study further revealed strict
auditing of tender documents must be initiated at these stages; firstly, at district level, the
designated unit in charge of procurement process must ensure that works, goods and
services supplied are environmental friendly. Secondly, at the regional level, the public
procurement authority must also monitor and review all procurement activities
undertaken at the district level to ensure that they follow the environmental sustainability
provisions of the public procurement act. Hence, the study recommends the commitment
and the enforcement of the environmental sustainability provisions, the provision of
budgetary allocation for supervision and monitoring and finally the continuous advocacy
program on sustainable public procurement
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A thesis submitted to the Department of Construction Technology and Management, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Procurement Management.
Keywords
sustainability provisions, public procurement act, Upper West Region