Assessing the Project Time and Cost Management Practices: Case of UNICEF Ethiopia Supported Project
dc.contributor.advisor | Adane Atara (PhD) | |
dc.contributor.author | Tigist Admassu | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2025-08-11T11:26:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2025-08-11T11:26:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2024-05 | |
dc.description.abstract | The aim of this paper is to assess project time and cost management practices and their challenges,a case study on UNICEF supported multi-village rural water system rollout project, which wasimplemented by OXFAM. Descriptive research design with quantitative and qualitativeapproaches were adopted by this paper. Primary data were collected using a structured questionnaire from participants of the project in UNICEF and an open-ended interview wasconducted with two supervisors of this project. Secondary data was obtained from desk review of official communications and progress reports about the project. Census survey method is used tocollect primary data from the population of sixty. Frequency distribution tables were used to analyze the data, presenting it in percentages and mean supported by qualitative descriptions ofthe results. The study identified eleven time management practices, nine cost management practices and twelve common challenges to answer the research questions. Findings of the studyshowed that though there were some time and cost management practices implemented during theproject lifecycle, most were either not effectively practiced or missing. These include lack of officepolicy or procedure to manage project schedules, absence of appropriate tools or techniques todo time and cost estimations and to develop schedules, identification of interactivity logicalrelationships which is hardly done, lack of regular monitoring of the project’s time and costperformance, absence of timely allocating the appropriate physical resources to the project, andabsence of a budget line for contingency to accommodate for risk or unforeseen costs. Challengesthat were highly faced towards implementing efficient time and cost management practicesincluded unpredictable external factors, project delay, price fluctuations, lack of relevant skills,change in scope and poor risk management strategies. The study concluded that the absence ofthe basic time and cost management practices, inefficient use of the existing ones coupled with thechallenges faced had immensely contributed to the project’s time and cost overrun. The UNICEFEthiopia Country Office should work towards having a proper guidance in place for thesepractices and provide a well-crafted training to its program team. Further research on all sectors the agency is working on is suggested to be conducted to come up with a more comprehensivesolution. Key Words: Project Time Management, Project Cost Management, Time Overrun, CostOverrun | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/6310 | |
dc.language.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Addis Ababa University | |
dc.title | Assessing the Project Time and Cost Management Practices: Case of UNICEF Ethiopia Supported Project | |
dc.type | Thesis |