The purposes of this abstract is to mirror the origin of the research, its contents, the key
research findings, what and how the research was conducted.
The research on Equitable Criteria for Funding and Financial Management for the PELT
Resource Centres in Mozambique was born out of the desire to establish an even, fair
distribution of wealth in a manner that is principled and ethically acceptable in a society
of ever-growing demands and unforeseeable irregular supplies of already scarce
resources. In the report, 'equitable' is used to mean the balancing in accord with local
and/ or relative needs. The goal of the research is to establish equitable criteria for
funding or resourcing, user-friendly but user-responsible ways/mechanisms of financial
planning, controlling and reporting and sources of funding or resourcing. The contents
have been organised into five chapters. They consist of methods, a brief description of
the research title, statement of purpose, critical questions and core hypotheses. Other
contents include a literature review, conceptual and theoretical framework, data
treatment, general discussion of the research findings and references. The research
findings fall under two main categories: the decision making and resource allocation
process, and financial management. The research findings show that the decision making
and resource allocation process hosts problems such as resource allocation imbalances,
exclusion of resource managers in key decision making and resource allocation processes,
lack of equitable criteria for funding, managers' attitudes which blockade resource
allocation, refusing resources to certain areas because of assumptions that they do not
have the ability and resources to manage resources, etc. With regard to financial
management, there are some small scale irregularities in principle which are very
significant. These include delays in financial transactions, lack of sound financial
accounting knowledge and skills and efficient communication. These problems are
genuine and legitimate, and they should be resolved. Thus, some solutions have been
suggested herein. The following are the main areas of solution interventions: devolution
of powers and authorities to local level management, involvement of lower management
in the policy, decision making and resource allocation process, negotiated decentralised
financial management, and use of identified criteria for funding and criteria for
procurement. Other areas encompass effective communication, financial accounting
training and negotiating funding with provincial and national education authorities.
The research involved twenty lower and senior managers from the in-service training of
teachers of English in ten provinces in Mozambique. They all responded to the
questionnaires, some participated in the interview schedule and others in the focus group.
The last two methods were designed to reinforce the questionnaire data collection,
validity and reliability of the research. / Thesis (M.Ed.)-University of Natal, 2000.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:ukzn/oai:http://researchspace.ukzn.ac.za:10413/10486 |
| Date | January 2000 |
| Creators | Welo, Barnabe Paulo. |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | en_ZA |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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