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Title Regular Project Monitoring for Project Success: The Case of Input Voucher System Project in Ethiopia
Full text http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/17758
Date 2018
Author(s) Mebratu, Melat
Contributor(s) Bekalu, Wubshet (PhD)
Abstract The Ethiopian Agricultural Transformation Agency is a government entity that actively works to transform the Ethiopian Agricultural sector. One of the flagship projects of this agency is the Input Voucher System Project which has been running for almost five years and is just a few months away from closure. This project has been implemented in 4 regions of Ethiopia (Amhara, Tigray, SNNP and Oromia) and has reached more than 5 million small holder farmers until today. The project is considered as one of the successful projects in the organization mainly due to the successfully done monitoring activities by the implementation team. The project has pre-defined project critical success factors and was able to do timely and regular project monitoring at four stages of the project (initiation/definition, planning, execution and closure). This objective of the study is to analyze how critical success factors and the monitoring activities done on those factors affected the success of the Input Voucher System Project. This thesis follows the descriptive methodology to do analysis of how monitoring critical success factors of a project regularly leads to project success. The researcher collected both primary and secondary data and did a qualitative analysis on the grouped critical success factors of different phases. The study concludes that this relationship exists in this project in most aspects of the implementations at all phases. Some activities such as external evaluations, audit reports and impact evaluations have not been planned to be done by the project team. There are also some activities remaining to be implemented just yet as delay has been caused due regional social unrests in recent months. The study recommends that the project implementation, before the closure, should focus on monitoring pending activities, working closely with stakeholders, developing audit planning after completion and working on implementing external evaluations and impact evaluations. The organization has been recommended to take in to consideration the learnings from this project to implement into others
Subject(s) regional social unrests; descriptive methodology to do analysis; analyze how critical success factors and the monitoring
Language en_US
Publisher Addis Ababa University
Type of publication Thesis
Format application/pdf
Repository Addis Ababa - University of Addis Ababa
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