Impact of Monitoring and Evaluation Practices of International Ngos on Project Performance: The Case of Jrs- Ethiopia
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2022-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Monitoring and Evaluation practices are among the key issues in assessing a project in the course of implementation and post. They allow measuring project activities and analyzing the overall implementation of the project. This helps to fix the project ahead of time when it gets off track and examine the relevance, effectiveness, efficiency, and impact of its implementation given the planned goals.
Monitoring and Evaluation include delivery on time, delivery on budget, quality assurance, and achievement of program objectives. However, a review of the literature reveals deficiencies such as the design and implementation of program objectives. Studies have shown that programs that have weak or lack specific monitoring and evaluation practices on average record low rating performance as measured by scope, timeline, and resource utilization. The main objective of this study was to determine the monitoring and evaluation practices on the performance of projects by taking the case of one of the INGOs working in Ethiopia called, JRS. The study adopted a descriptive research design method with a target population of 70 staff. Data collected was analyzed using both qualitative and quantitative analysis. The study findings revealed that all independent variables (ME Planning, ME budgeting, Capacity Building, and level of participation of stakeholders) in the study influence the Performance of the projects (dependent variable). The Analysis of variance (ANOVA) revealed that the calculated value was greater than the critical value (61.000>8.3997) an indication that ME Planning, ME budgeting, Capacity Building, and the level of participation of stakeholders have a significant role in the performance of the projects conducted by JRS-Ethiopia. The significance value (0.000) was less than 0.05 indicating that the model was significant. The correlation analysis also confirmed the relationship between ME budgeting and the performance of projects is the most significant, r = 0.709, P < 0.01, which was a strong positive relationship. The correlation between ME