Part I - Ministry Of Education and Sports

The main challenges encountered during the implementation of these civil works include among
others;
Sites in hard to reach areas do not attract bidders, hence the need for re advertisements which
slows down progress;
High Inflation levels affected the progress of the civil works due to increase in prices for fuel,
local and manufacturing materials;
The long bureaucratic procurement process required by PPDA coupled with the need for the
Solicitor General to approve works of Ugx 50m and above leads to late commencement of work;
Funds for Presidential Pledges are disbursed along with those of SFG on a quarterly basis. In
most cases these works are awarded at the end of the financial year after the budgetary
allocation has accumulated;
The Indicative planning figures communicated by Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES),
Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED), and Office of the Prime
Minister (OPM) and in the Output Budgeting Tool (OBT) in most cases do not tally. This leaves
confusion in Local Governments as to which exact figure to use while planning;
Whereas the Local Governments were instructed to submit separate work plans for SFG normal,
Lined Pit Latrines, Construction of teachers’ houses in hard­to­reach areas and SFG/ PRDP,
some have continued to combine their workplans making it difficult to attach the outputs for the
different programmes;
Some Local Governments under SFG/PRDP have continued to plan for works/facilities outside
those recommended. For example, in Agago, Manafwa and Bududa, part of their funds were
used to construct the District Administration blocks, DEO’s office and purchase of a Pickup
respectively. While for Kole District they purchased 2 Laptops, 1 desk computer, 1 Photocopier
and 1 Honda diesel. Our field officers (Engineering Assistants) neither supervise these works
nor certify them for payment as they are side­lined by the districts;
During the monitoring exercises carried out by the centre, it has been identified that some
contractors especially in the Local Governments benefiting both under SFG Normal and
SFG/PRDP programme are overwhelmed by the number of contracts won within the same
period which are beyond their capacity. They get contracts not only in the Education sector, but
cut across all other sectors. As a result; some works are delayed as they cross over to different
sites in a bid to balance up;
In some areas, sites are abandoned by contractors, yet they cannot be terminated due to the long
procedure of termination of a contract hence affecting the progress of work;
The continuous annual budget cuts experienced by Local Governments on their ceilings is a
challenge as activities are rolled over to the following year and moreover with the same contract
prices notwithstanding the inflation effect. This leaves some sites being abandoned and left
incomplete;
During the rainy seasons some sites in some districts become inaccessible until the dry season is
on; and,
With the use of lined pit latrines, a strategy for the processes of emptying these pit latrines
should be put in place by the Ministry.
(ix) Licensing and Registering of private primary schools
During the period under review, 225 and 130 Early Childhood Development Centres and primary
schools were licensed and registered respectively in an effort to increase access.
ESSAPR FY 2011/12 to inform the 19 th ESSR – OCTOBER 2012
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