Browsing by Author "Tesfaye, Yordanos"

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    Assessment of Project Management Practices in the Case of Government Initiated Mega Projects in Addis Ababa (Adwa Zero Kilometer Museum Project)
    (Addis Ababa University, 2021-06) Tesfaye, Yordanos; Mengistu, Worku(PhD)
    The use of effective project management practices is crucial to the success of any project. Project management is seen to be a more successful and resourceful strategy for reaching a goal than the other methods, procedures, and strategies currently accessible. The research was carried out to determine the project management maturity level of the Adwa Zero Kilometer Museum Project using the ten project management knowledge areas defined by PMBOK and identify its weakness and strengths. The research followed a mixed approach and employed a descriptive research methodology. Primary data was collected using survey questionnaire that were devised based on the literature for the assessment and distributed to selected members of the project. As to secondary data; related books, articles, journals and publication from the project office were reviewed Percentages and mean values were used to analyze the data collected. As a result, the study's findings revealed that project management practice is on average (Level 3) maturity level indicating that the basic project management processes and documentation exist in the project, but they are not considered as an organizational standard that fits the scale of a mega project. The findings of the study showed that, some project management knowledge areas i.e. Project, risk, communication and integration management were at a low maturity level in the project while, project human resource, scope, cost and procurement management were practiced at a relatively good maturity level. The project lacks project management professionals and training opportunities are limited. The study recommended that the project management team put in additional effort to improve the Project management practice by strengthening the focus on the knowledge areas with a low maturity level. The project needs to be equipped with project management professionals and consistent trainings in project management knowledge areas and their application must be provided to project team members. Continuous improvement based on lesson learned needs to be encouraged. In addition, improving management oversight, integrating project management processes, ensuring the establishment of effective risk management standards and participating key stakeholders during planning and necessary phases, collecting and compiling project data for future reference and for distributing lesson learned and an all-inclusive monitoring and evaluation system are necessary have been recommended.
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    Foreign Currency Shortage in Ethiopia and its Implications for Imports
    (A.A.U, 2021-03) Tesfaye, Yordanos; A., Wollela (Ph.D.)
    This thesis aims to investigate foreign currency shortage and its implication to the import sector. Specifically, the thesis examines the impact of foreign currency reserve, inflation, depreciation in the value of US dollar, Gross Domestic Product, Remittance and foreign debt on import. The study is conducted using a mixed research approach. The Quantitative data were collected from 34 years of import and export data from the National Bank of Ethiopia, World Bank, and Ministry of Revenues on the other hand the qualitative data is collected from the interview of the importers and higher officials of sixteen private commercial bank. Generally, the regression results of both long-run models mostly suggest that the fluctuations of real exchange rates are predominantly responses to monetary policy shocks rather than fiscal policy shocks. Furthermore, the result from the interview showed that there is an acute shortage of foreign currency caused mainly by the slow growth of the export as compared to imports of the country followed by brisk expansion of black-market foreign exchange, low flow of remittances via the formal market, increase in government imports in line with the huge infrastructure projects being undertakings. Based on the result of the study, enhancing the export and remittance, parallel support for the manufacturing sector producing export and import substitute items, and minimize black market foreign exchange are among the recommendation by the researcher