Effects of Central Government transfers to Local governments on implementation of Universal Primary Education in Kiboga District Local Government. A cross-sectional study.
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https://doi.org/10.70659/gjhib.v1i11.10Keywords:
Central government transfer, universal primary education, Kiboga local governmentAbstract
Background.
Achieving Universal Primary Education as goal number 2 of the 8 Millennium Development Goals under UN Declaration of 2000 targeted to ensure that, by 2015, children everywhere, boys and girls alike, will be able to complete a full course of primary schooling. Therefore, the study intends to assess the effects of central government transfer to local government on implementation of UPE in Kiboga district local government.
Methodology.
A cross-sectional study was employed and mainly used the quantitative research method which was supported by the qualitative research methods. Simple random sampling was done to select the study participants.
Results.
62% of the respondents were male, 34(53.9%) of them were aged (50-59) years and up to 40% had secondary level education. It was strongly agreed by the respondents that schools receive conditional funds from central government (mean=4.45), most respondents strongly disagreed that funds are released based on needs assessment (mean= 2.37), a number of respondents disagreed that schools receive adequate conditional funds (mean= 2.37,), it was strongly agreed that schools conditional funds are received in time (mean= 4.45) and participants agreed that schools receive unconditional funds from Central Government (mean 4.22 strongly agreed).
“School management committees: These committees are statutory organs representing the Government at school level and are supposed to give overall direction to the operation of the school” (Bukomro Sub-county first quarter 2021/22 Education Committee report 2022).
Conclusion.
The influence of government transfers on implementation of UPE was based on Conditional and unconditional grant transfers.
Recommendation.
The ministry of finance planning and economic development in consultation with ministry of Education should review their guidelines and give school management committees more discretional powers to budget and spend the money depending on the local needs of the school.
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