Assessment of Challenges on The performance of Government Housing Projects: In the case of Addis Ababa City
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2020-06
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Addis Ababa University
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This study assesses the performance of government housing projects in Addis Ababa city. A
sample of 16 interviewees from the Addis Ababa housing projects construction office (AAHPCO)
used as a primary source by using purposive sampling approach and secondary data obtained
from the federal and City government of Addis Ababa bureaus were analyzed In the process of
answering the basic questions. After the data has been collected, it was analyzed using the
descriptive analysis for the first research question, and the content analysis applied to address
the rest research questions. The result of the study indicates that there is a poor performance
exhibited in the Addis Ababa housing projects. With respect to the housing demand in the city,
the achievement of the government to meet the demand is only 18% in the past 11 years. The
major cost related challenges contributed for this poor performance includes shortage of
finance, inflation, lack of foreign exchange, poor financial management. The major schedule
related challenges for this weak performance found out in this research are, poor schedule
planning, failure to secure a continuous supply of project inputs and currently, the rapid spread
of novel corona virus (Covid-19) pandemic affected the schedule of the projects. Lastly, the
quality related performance challenges existed in the housing projects includes the application
of backward construction technologies, lack of skilled man power and inadequate attention paid
for the quality management of projects negatively affected the performance of the projects.
Based on the major findings, the study forwarded recommendations for the city government of
Addis Ababa, the supreme Authority of the given housing projects.
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Performance challenges, housing projects in Addis Ababa, study assesses the performance