GREEN PROCUREMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION: A CASE OF BIDICO UGANDA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Con tents

NOVEMBER, 2016 1

DECLARATION

APPROVAL ii

DEDICATION iii

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT iv

LIST OF ACRONYMS/ABBREVIATIONS v

TABLE OF CONTENTS vi

ABSTRACT xi

CHAPTER ONF I

INTRODUCTION I

1.0 1ntrocluction~ I

1 .1 Background of the study

1.2 Statement of the problem 5

1 .3 General Objective 5

1.4 Specific Objectives 5

1.5 Research Queslions/Llypothesis 6

1.6 Significance of the study 6

1.6.1 BIDICO Uganda 6

1 .6.2 Academicians/Researchers 6

I .6.3 Stakeholders/Public 7

I .6.4 Policy Makers/Central Government 7

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1.7 Scope of the Study .7

1.8 Definition of Terminologies .8

CHAPTER TWO 10

LITERATURE REVIEW 10

2.0 Introduction 10

2.2 Conceptual Framework 1 0

2.3 Theoretical Review 12

2.3.1 Government Policies 12

2.3.2 Top Management Policy 13

2.3.3 Sta fTTraining 13

2.3.4 Awareness of Green Public Procurement 14

2.3.5 Information and Communications Technology (ICT) 14

2.3.6 Green Public Procurement 15

2.3.7 Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) 15

2.4 Theories on Green Procurement I 6

2.4.1 Sustainability Theory 16

2.4.2 Agency Theory 17

2.4.3 Resource Based Theory 1 8

2.4,4 Transactional Cost Theory 19

2.5 related literature 20

2.6 Critical Review 20

2.7 Research Gaps 21

2.8 Summary of literature 22

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RESEARCH DESIGN A.?ID IbIETHODOLOGY...............................•............_......fl_.._....24

3.2 Research Design ....~.24

3.3 Research Population 24

3.4 Sampling Technique and Saniple Size 25

3.5 Data Collection Instrunients 25

3.6 Pilot study 26

3.7 Reliability 27

3.8 1)ata Analysis and presentation 27

3.9 Ethical Consideration

3.10 Iairnitations 28

3. 10.1 1~esearch I%4aterial 28

3.10.2 Finaxce 29

3.10.3 ~Tirne Constraints 29

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4.1 Introduction 30

4.2 Baclcground lnfornia,tion 30

4.2.1 Gender 30

4.2.2 Experience in the County 31

4.2.3 Age 31

4.3 Awareness of Green Procurement Practices 33

4.3.1 Results of awareness on sustainable friendly procurement 33

4.3.2 Training of procurement staff on sustainable friendly procurement 33

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4.3.3 Knowledge on sustainable green procurement practices ~

4.3.4 Level of awareness influences the effective green procurement practices 34

4.4 Top Management Procurement Policies 34

4.4.1 Organizational sustainable green procurement policy 34

4.4.2 Sustainable procurement inclusion in Vision, Mission or Objectives 35

4.4.3 Presence of structures in BIDICO to enforce green public procurement practices 35

4.4.4 Presence of BIDICO structures to provide sustainable green public procurement 36

4.5 Government Policies on Green Procurement 36

4.5.1 Central government provision of sustainable green procurement policy in the PPDA Act

(2005) 36

4.5.2 Uganda Vision 2030 objectives for green procurement practices 37

4.5.3 Presence of central government structures to provide sustainable green public procurement

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4.5.4 Presence of central government system to enforce sustainable green public procurement

practices 38

CHAPTER FIVE 39

SUMMARY, CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 39

5.1 Introduction 39

5.2 Summary of the findings 39

5.3 Awareness of green procurement practices (GPP) 39

5.4 Top Management Procurement Policies 40

5.5 Conclusion 40

5.6 Recommendations 40

5.7 Areas of further research 41

REFERENCES 42

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Appendixi: QUESTIONNAIRE 1NST~UCT~ON~ .46

Appendix 2: I3UDGET PROPOSAL AND PLANNING 49

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ABSTRACT

This research study is to find out how Uganda is trying to bridge the wide gap between itself and

all other international trade partners who have formulated and implemented the green public

procurement practices in their public entities and this is done by carrying out a research study of

an assessment of the effect of green public procurement practices implementation in BIDCO in

Uganda. Procurement professionals have been considering environmental factors in the supply

chain management to reduce the effects of globally talked in conferences in most of UN

Conferences; the global warming, climatic changes, human effects hence the development of

green procurement concept. The general objective of the research study is to investigate on the

assessment of the effect of Green Public procurement practices implementations in devolved

systems in Uganda. The Specific Objectives were: To investigate how the Government of

Uganda policies through PPDA (2005) influences in the implementation of Green Public

Procurement practices and environmental conservation, to find out the influence of top

management team on Green Public procurement practices and environmental conservation, to

investigate if staff training and development has influence in Green Public Procurement practices

and environmental conservation and to investigate the awareness of Green Public Procurement

practices and environmental conservation. The study is valuable to the environmental

conservation in Uganda, academicians and policy makers. Data was analyzed through descriptive

statistics and frequencies. Data was also integrated both qualitative and quantitative techniques

in the analysis. Data presentation was clone using tables and frequencies. The study found out

that Green Public Procurement practices is a evolving phenomenon in the devolved systems in

Uganda having started in 2005 and is slowly growing and being recognized as a concept worth to

be considered in the procui~emeI~t functions. The Green Public Procurement Practices

implementation will be evident through standard specifications of design to prequalified and

potential suppliers, environmental management systems (Ii ke concept of 3Rs: Reduce, Reuse and

Recycle) being i ntrocl uced through waste management, product contents restrictions, checking

supplier environment objectives and vision, and vendor auditing on compliance.

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