Examining Procurement Fraud in Ministry of Education and Sports (Moes).

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dc.contributor.authorNyamwenge Faith
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T10:01:58Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T10:01:58Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-22
dc.descriptionThis is a master's thesis.
dc.description.abstractThe study examined procurement fraud in public projects at the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES). The study was initiated as a result of various reports and publications on the consistent circumstances of procurement fraud in the pre-contracting, contracting and post contracting stages of various procurements in MoES. The objectives that guided the study included; to establish the factors influencing procurement fraud; identify the stages in the procurement process prone to procurement fraud; examine the challenges in eliminating procurement fraud at MoES and, examine strategies in place to prevent procurement fraud. A cross-sectional survey design was adopted in which 82 respondents were selected using both simple random and purposive sampling. A self-administered questionnaire and an interview guide were used to collect data from the respondents and the data was analysed using SPSS (V24) and Atlas-it software. The findings revealed that among the factors affecting procurement fraud were moral superiority, inadequate internal controls, low awareness of regulatory requirements, staff being motivated by financial need/gain, greed, desire for prestige/recognition and history of programmed abuse. The proposed strategies to prevent procurement fraud include; increasing awareness of the clear procurement policies already in existence; conducting regular procurement audits; whistle-blowing and fraud reporting, witnessing of protection of whistle-blowers; fraud information sharing and intelligence, rotation of procurement officers, adoption of e-procurement to reduce interface with suppliers, enforcing blacklisting of supplier organizations involved in fraud: disciplining or termination of staff convicted of fraud practices and limiting their access security codes to the procurement system and publicization of staff and suppliers involved in procurement fraud.
dc.description.sponsorshipDr. Levi Kabagambe, (PhD) (Makerere University Business School) & Mr. Bonny Bagenda, (Makerere University Business School)
dc.identifier.citationNyamwenge, F. (2022) Examining Procurement Fraud in Ministry of Education and Sports (Moes). (unpublished master's dissertation). Makerere University Business School, Kampala, Uganda.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12282/5680
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMakerere University Business School
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 United Statesen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/us/
dc.titleExamining Procurement Fraud in Ministry of Education and Sports (Moes).
dc.typeThesis
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