3.3 Assessing national road maintenance activities
This report assesses the performance of road maintenance activities planned, funded and implemented across the public roads network in 2011/2012. It highlights what has been delivered, what has not, and why. It provides accountability for the spending of the Uganda Road Fund (URF) budget and outlines key areas of performance. It is intended as a baseline for subsequent trend analyses of annual outputs and achievements of URF disbursements.
In 2011/2012, URF's second full year of operation, UGX 280.95 billion was provided from parliamentary appropriations for planned road maintenance and related services. Total disbursements at year end were UGX 252.26 billion, representing a 92.4% budget performance.
Key issues identified included:
- Poor budget discipline
- Poor absorption of road maintenance funds
- Inaccuracies in reporting
- Lethargy of agencies in complying with reporting requirements
- Widely varying unit costs
- Risk of loss of funds through end of year procedures
- Grave underperformance of periodic maintenance works.
Issuing body: Uganda Road Fund
Type: Report
Status: Final
Title: Report on physical and financial performance of URF designated agencies – financial year 2011/12
File type: PDF
File size: 2.03 MB
Year of publication: 2012
Number of pages: 48
