Assessment of stakeholder’s management practice & challenges: the case of ‘Sign of hope/SoH Ethiopia’ Multisectoral Humanitarian projects.
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2024-10
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Addis Ababa University
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The objective of this research is to assess stakeholder’s management practice & challenges. In the study, structured questionnaire was used to collect data from respondents who have direct & indirect involvement in the project works in the organization. The researcher used census with a total population of 35 respondents. out of these 33 respondents filled and submitted the questionnaire. Which represents 94.3% response rate. The finding of the study shows identifying stakeholders is majorly based on past project lesson learnt, internal stakeholders prioritized over external stakeholders. The major challenges identified were, there is no unit in their organization that is responsible for stakeholder’s management, there is poor engagement of stakeholders. While we see stakeholder analysis in the study, It’s not an ongoing activity project implementation stage. It is recommended that stakeholder’s management unit should be designed & practiced with role & responsibilities to overcome the challenges & enhance the achievement of the project. In addition, a need-based capacity building & mobilization is essential for stakeholders. Besides stakeholder analysis is not an ongoing activity in the project implementation stage. This should be changed with continuous & ongoing analysis of stakeholders throughout the project implementation. The communication techniques & channel should be enhanced based on the type of stakeholders & access of communication stakeholders. Finally related with the topic further studies should be conducted correlated with different project management concepts.
Key words: Stakeholders, Stakeholders management, stakeholder’s identification, Stakeholders management practice & challenges.