The role of sustainable procurement in rural development: a case of rural supply chains in Bikita, Zimbabwe.
- Author
- Haukozi, Mafia T
- Title
- The role of sustainable procurement in rural development: a case of rural supply chains in Bikita, Zimbabwe.
- Abstract
- The main goal of the study was to assess the role of sustainable procurement in rural areas, a case of supply chains in Bikita, Zimbabwe. Research was guide by the following objectives assessing the impact of economic sustainable procurement on rural development, determining how social issues on sustainable procurement affect rural development and analyzing how environmental issues affect rural development in procurement. A descriptive case study research was used. A population of eighty (80) from different companies and a sample size of forty-four (44) respondents were picked. Data was collected through questionnaire and interview schedule. The researcher used IBM SPS statistics 20 and Excel to analyze data. Findings towards the role of sustainable procurement in rural development indicated that business organizations established in Bikita considers the role of sustainable procurement but not as much as the level expected. In all aspects of sustainable procurement there is certain areas they put more focus and certain areas they put less focus. The findings revealed that organizations put more focus on procurement of human and core lobour standards for rural development to ensured health and safety values of employees required by trade unions and other labor organizations. However, procurement activities are not fair and ethical to achieve sustainability due to corruption, bribes and kickbacks from suppliers and lack of transparent and auditing procedures. The researcher recommend that business organization in Bikita rural area should put their commitment on procurement activities by having policy statements that exploring in various conditions to trade in as fair and ethical in a good manner as possible so as to help deliver social sustainability for rural development. The study also recommend that all procurement departments of all business organizations involved in Bikita rural area should meet and integrate to sign agreements of mutual understanding on sustainable procurement practices that brings rural development. As a result, this research is by no means comprehensive, there is need to carry other researches regarding the role of sustainable procurement in urban and town development. Other researchers should use different case studies to conduct a kind of research.
- Date
- May 2022
- Publisher
- BUSE
- Keywords
- sustainable procurement, rural development, descriptive case study
- Supervisor
- Doc, Chari
- Item sets
- Department of Economics