Assessment of Risk Management Practices of Ethiopian Public Health Institute
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2018-12-06
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Project management is used as a significant skill in many industries. For this reason, the knowledge
of projects and their management are of high importance. Project risk management is the process of
identifying, analyzing and then responding to any risk that arises over the life cycle of a project to
help the project remain on track and meet its goal. Poor risk management as a whole is one of the
major aspects causing projects to collapse, and this has become an obstacle to each and every project
that is being developed nowadays. The healthcare industry faces many of the same challenges as
other industries, with some very particular stress points. Ethiopian Public Health Institute have
completed and now also implementing various health care projects with different constraints
including scope, time, cost, quality and risk in order to improve quality of health care and enhance
the capacity of the health sector at all levels of the system. The main objective of this study was to
assess the risk management practices in health care projects under Ethiopian Public Health Institute.
Descriptive research design was used to answer the extent of risk management practice in health care
projects and to see the associated factors affecting the risk management practice. The target
population for this study was all members of the project and other related officers in Ethiopian Public
Health Institute from which the sample population was drawn by using purposive sampling technique.
This study used both primary and secondary data source and quantitative method to address the
objective of the study by using self administered questionnaires as a data collection tool. The
collected data was analyzed using SPSS version.20 software, which entails calculating frequency,
percentage, mean, standard deviation and variability.
As the finding of this study, the risk management practice in various projects in Ethiopian public
health institute mainly the risk planning, identification, analysis, response & monitoring was
moderately implemented with the average mean score of 3.20 and SD of 1.23. However, the
utilization of risk management tools and techniques to manage the project risk were very low with a
mean score and standard deviation 2.58 & 0.93 respectively. Regarding policy and strategies most of
the respondents disagree and uncertain on the presence of policy or guideline that recommend how to
manage unexpected uncertainties and standard risk management practices in these project
organization. Thus this study recommends that standard risk management practice should be backed
with strategies and guidelines and implemented at every stage of the project by integrating with the
project plan and with the involvement of all project team members and stakeholders.
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Project management, Risk management, Healthcare