Effectiveness of monitoring and controlling for agricultural projects
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2017-06-26
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
The study was conducted in Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) and Ethiopian Institute of
Agricultural Research (EIAR) to investigate the effectiveness of monitoring and control for
agricultural projects. Like any projects, agricultural projects have faced challenges of
completing the projects within project constraints. This is the result of not having the capability
to accurately monitor and control project constraints. The objectives of this research were to
determine project monitoring techniques, measurer project performance effectiveness, determine
the effective uses of monitoring information for decision making and the effects of organization
for effectiveness of monitoring and control of agricultural projects. Self administered
questionnaires were prepared and answered by 33 and 18 respondents from MoA and EIAR
respectively. 5-point Likert rating scale and Mann-Whitney model were used for the data
analysis. According to the results both MoA and EIAR are used different kinds of project
monitoring techniques such as questionnaire, interview, observation, case study, focus group
discussion and document review. The result of the analysis revealed that the mean for overall
effectiveness of agricultural projects is 3.6780. The result of the analysis discovered that
agricultural project planning, implementation, information management, control, efficiency and
effectiveness are greater than 3.5 except agricultural project monitoring is 3.3109. Respondents
in both organizations have positive opinion for the effectiveness of agricultural projects in their
organizations. The Mann-Whitney U test showed that there is a significance difference of the
effectiveness of agricultural projects between MoA and EIAR at 5% error level (U = 125.000; p
= 0.0001, therefore p < 0.05). EIAR (35.56) has a higher mean ranks than MoA (20.78), that
mean the project effectiveness in EIAR is significantly higher than the project effectiveness in the
MoA thus rejecting the null hypothesis and supporting the alternative hypothesis. Similarly,
project implementation, information communication, project control and project effectiveness
are significantly higher in EIAR than the MoA at 5% of error level.
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Agriculture, Control, Effectiveness