A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of
the Degree of Master of Science in Accounting and Finance (MSc-A&F) of Mzumbe
University
The aim of this research was to assess the effectiveness of fund management
procedures in donor funded project. The study aims at suggesting a range on how do
the fund management procedures are effective in donor funded projects, by paying
attention on factors that affect the effectiveness of fund management procedures such
as the achievement of value for money, internal controls, financial systems and
procedures implementations and how the donor fund is spent by the donor projects to
attain the targeted goals and objectives.
In chapter one the researcher introduce and gives the historical background of the
study, discuss the statement of the problem, outlines the objectives of the study,
analyzes research questions and outlines the justification of the study. The researcher
also provides the scope and limitations of the study.
Chapter two comprises of literature review that is the critical analysis of the
literatures that have been identified and read by the researcher on the factors that can
impair the effectiveness of fund management procedures in the projects that are
funded by donors.
In the third chapter the researcher provides the research methodology that has been
adopted in the study. The researcher used case study in which she explained a cause
and effect relationships of the variables leading to the effectiveness of fund
management procedures. The study was conducted at TCU under DAAD and
CARNEGIE projects. Simple random and judgmental sampling techniques were
adopted by the researcher to select a sample of 35 respondents from a population. In
which data collected were both primary and secondary collected using
questionnaires, interviews as well as documentations and they were analyzed both
qualitatively and quantitatively.
After the collection of data and its analysis, they were presented by using charts,
graphs and tables.
In chapter five the researcher has summarized the whole study, and concluded that
the fund management procedures in donor fund projects are effective despite of
minor but important challenges. Improving internal controls and internal units ar