Browsing by Author "Ermiyas Mekonnen"

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    Factor Affecting the Implementation of Donor Funded Projects: The Case of the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
    (Addis Ababa University, 2022-09) Ermiyas Mekonnen; Wasihun Mohammed (PhD)
    The study targeted identifying the factors affecting the implementation of the donor-funded project at the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI). Project implementation is placing the project plan into activities to produce deliverables, products, or services for the beneficiaries or the donors. The study had carried out using an explanatory research design. The target population of the study was ILRI staff implementing donor-funded projects. The research sought to examine the success of project implantation with the five independent variables being project planning and scheduling, program/project manager competencies, project stakeholder involvement, project monitoring, and evaluation, and project communication management. The questionnaires had distributed to the team members and individuals working directly on projects and pool staff supporting the project. Quantitative data collected using a questionnaire were analyzed using explanatory statistics and linear regression analysis with the aid of SPSS version 25. The key findings from the study show that project/program managers' competency, project monitoring and evaluation, and project communication management has a positive and statistically significant relationship with successful project implementation. Project planning and scheduling is a positive but insignificant relationship with successful project implementation. However, project stakeholder involvement is negatively and insignificantly related to successful project implementation. From the findings, the researcher recommends that ILRI work towards continuous development and training of program/project managers to improve their knowledge and performance. ILRI should also prepare a guidance manual or handbook for project monitoring and evaluation to adopt best practices to improve project success. In addition, ILRI should pursue the development of project communication management for successful project implementation. Finally, the study recommends that ILRI follow up for on-time completion of project planning and scheduling. Key Words: Successful project implantation, planning, and scheduling, stakeholder involvement, monitoring and evaluation, and communication management, International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI)
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    Factors Affecting the Inflow of Foreign Direct Investment in Ethiopia
    (A.A.U., 2022-12-03) Ermiyas Mekonnen; Sewale Abate (PhD)
    This study aims to examine the determinants of inward FDI in Ethiopia over the period 47 years ranging from 1974-2020. Foreign direct investment (FDI) is one of the key sources of capital inflows and driver of economic growth and development in many developing countries. Ethiopia has recorded high level of success in mobilizing huge investment to support its economic growth. Ethiopia is one of the fastest growing countries in the world. This paper examines how macroeconomic stability, market size, trade openness, and infrastructure affecting FDI inflows in Ethiopia. The Unit root test and Co integration approach are applied to ensure that the regressions are not spurious. The empirical results support the hypothesis of the study that, inflation rate is found to have negative impacts on FDI inflows and the exchange rate, debt, trade openness, and infrastructure have positive effects on FDI inflows. However, foreign debt unlike the research hypothesis has a positive impact on FDI and the real gross domestic product is a proxy for market size has negatively affected the inflow of FDI. Furthermore, the effects of inflation rate, foreign debt, market size and trade openness on inward FDI are statistically insignificant. But exchange rate and infrastructure are significantly affecting the inflow of FDI in Ethiopia. Finally, the paper suggests that corresponding efforts should focus on strengthening the inflation rate, exchange rate, trade openness and infrastructure to ensure stability in macroeconomic performance, which enhances the confidence of foreign investors investing in Ethiopia.