Abstract: Public procurement is an important function of any government. The magnitude of procurement outlays has a great impact on the economy and needs to be well managed. The delayed deliveries, poor quality products or services, non-completion of orders and even threats of litigation due to delayed payments is a common scenario experienced by public institutions in Rwanda. Report by RPPA indicates that up to 30% of procurement inefficiencies in the public sector in Rwanda are attributed to supplier’s performance issues. The current public sector monitoring and evaluation processes are not yielding the desired results in terms of meeting operational requirements of public sector institutions on time as a result of the bureaucratic nature of the processes involved and impacts negatively on the performance. The procurement function has not been given the recognition it deserves in developing countries, in most public entities, regardless of the effort by the partners like the World Bank, the International Trade Organization, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the World Trade Organization and, others. Generally the study aim is to determine the effectiveness of monitoring and evaluation of public procurement processes and performance of RPPA in Rwanda. The time frame of this study is from 2015-2017. This study adopted a survey research design. The primary data was collected from employees of RPPA Through questionnaire technique. In line with this study, the target population was 30 employees of RPPA. Data was collected by using structured questionnaires. The response was analyzed through SPSS (Statistical Packages of Social Sciences) version 21. The coefficients of model fitness on how monitoring and evaluation of public procurement processes influence performance of RPPA in Rwanda. The performance has an overall correlation with outsourcing of 0.833 which is strong and positive. This means that 83.3% of monitoring and evaluation of public procurement contributed to the performance of RPPA Rwanda. Analysis of Variance shows that f-calculated is greater that f – critical that is 6.301>0.01. This implies that the regression equation was well specified and therefore the co-efficient of the regression shows that there is a strong relationship between two variables. The aim of this study was to explore the monitoring and evaluation of public procurement processes on the RPPA performance. RPPA need to incorporate the monitoring and evaluation of public procurement processes. This will enable them to improve the overall organizational performance. RPPA need to find out ways of encouraging employees to make use of e-procurement systems. If employees are encouraged to use the e-procurement, adoption of the same will greatly improve.
Keywords: Public procurement, economy, public procurement processes, e-procurement systems.
Title: EFFECTIVENESS OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION OF PUBLIC PROCUREMENT PROCESSES AND PERFORMANCE OF RPPA IN RWANDA: A CASESTUDY OF RWANDA PUBLIC PROCUREMENT AUTHORITY (RPPA)
Author: Jane KEMBABAZI, Dr. PATRICK MULYUNGI
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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