Contractor Selection, Monitoring And Performance Of Road Infrastructure Projects In Uganda

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION .............................................................................................................. 1

1.1 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................................ 1

1.2 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY .............................................................................................................. 3

1.3 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM: ............................................................................................................ 9

1.4 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY ....................................................................................................................... 11

1.5 OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY ................................................................................................................. 11

1.6 RESEARCH QUESTIONS ......................................................................................................................... 12

1.7 HYPOTHESIS OF THE STUDY ................................................................................................................ 12

1.8 CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK .............................................................................................................. 12

1.9 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY ........................................................................................................... 14

1.10 JUSTIFICATION OF THE STUDY .......................................................................................................... 14

1.11 SCOPE OF THE STUDY ........................................................................................................................... 15

1.12 DEFINITIONS TO KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS ............................................................................... 16

CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW .............................................................................................. 18

2.1 INTRODUCTION ....................................................................................................................................... 18

2.2 THEORETICAL REVIEW .......................................................................................................................... 18

2.3 KEY CONCEPTS ....................................................................................................................................... 20

2.3.1 CONTRACTOR SELECTION ................................................................................................................. 20

2.3.2 CONTRACTOR MONITORING ............................................................................................................. 28

2.3.3 OVERSIGHT ROLE OF PPDA ................................................................................................................ 34

2.3.4 PERFORMANCE OF ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS ........................................................... 35

2.7 SYNTHESIS OF THE LITERATURE AND RESEARCH GAPS ANALYSIS ........................................ 39

CHAPTER THREE: METHODOLOGY: INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 41

3.2 RESEARCH PHILOSOPHY ....................................................................................................................... 41

3.2.1 POSITIVISTIC APPROACHES .............................................................................................................. 42

3.2.2 INTERPRETIVIST APPROACHES ........................................................................................................ 43

3.3 RESEARCH APPROACH AND PROCESS .............................................................................................. 44

3.4 QUALITATIVE APPROACH AS A RESEARCH METHOD FOR THE STUDY ................................... 45

3.5 RESEARCH DESIGN ................................................................................................................................ 46

3.6 STUDY POPULATION .............................................................................................................................. 47

3.7 DETERMINATION OF THE SAMPLE SIZE ........................................................................................... 48

3.8 SAMPLING TECHNIQUE AND PROCEDURE ....................................................................................... 49

3.9 DATA COLLECTION METHODS AND INSTRUMENT ........................................................................ 50

3.9.1 QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY ................................................................................................................. 50

3.9.2 INTERVIEWS .......................................................................................................................................... 51

3.9.3 DOCUMENT REVIEW ........................................................................................................................... 53

3.10 DATA QUALITY CONTROL AND MANAGEMENT ......................................................................... 53

3.10.1VALIDITY ............................................................................................................................................... 53

3.10.2 RELIABILITY ........................................................................................................................................ 54

3.11 PROCEDURE OF DATA COLLECTION ............................................................................................... 55

3.12 DATA ANALYSIS ................................................................................................................................... 55

3.12.1 QUANTITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS .................................................................................................. 56

3.12.2 QUALITATIVE DATA ANALYSIS ..................................................................................................... 56

3.13 MEASUREMENT OF VARIABLES ....................................................................................................... 57

3.14 ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS .............................................................................................................. 57

REFERENCES ................................................................................................................................................. 59

APPENDIX 1: QUESTIONNAIRE ................................................................................................................ 76