Assessment of Project Management Practice and Challenges of NGOs in Ethiopia: The Case of Rotary Ethiopia
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2023-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Project management is a systematic approach and application of knowledge, tools and technique to initiating, planning, executing, monitoring, control and closing projects. Project management needs effective management and standardized practice in order to effectively and efficiently execute projects and become successful. Rotary Ethiopia is one of the NGOs in Ethiopia which is formed and managed by volunteer groups of people. This study aims to assess the project initiation, monitoring and control process as well as schedule and cost management practice of Rotary Ethiopia along with challenges of project management. With this objective a descriptive study design is applied with a quantitative approach. Quota sampling method was used and primary data was collected using a structured questionnaire with most of the parts measured on Likert scale. The result showed that Rotary Ethiopia has a good project management practice in regards to initiation, schedule management, cost management, monitoring and control. But when we look into specific processes, developing project calendars, regularly producing and communicating work performance information, updating project management plan and project document as a result of change control process as well as updating organizational process assets and lessons learnt from control process has got very low agreement score. Moreover the study found out that the organization is getting challenged with unfavorable government laws and regulations, balancing the competing constraints, lack of effective communication, unexpected events, and low stakeholder commitment and engagement. From this we can conclude that the practice is generally good with some signaling measures which need their due attention in the future. They also need to work with responsible body in order to tackle their challenges.
Key Words: Project management, NGO, Project initiation, Schedule, Cost, Monitoring, Control