Assessment of Performance and Critical Success Factors of Rural Road Construction in South Ethiopia; A Case Study of Universal Rural Road Access Program (Urrap) In Wolaita Zone
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2020-11-11
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Addis Ababa University
Abstract
Connecting rural areas each other and to main roads is vital for Ethiopia as larger part
of its’ population are rural dwellers. To accelerate combating of poverty in these areas,
Government was working to increase rural road network. The purpose of this research
is, therefore, to present the status of performance and associated factors of rural road
construction under universal rural road access program in Wolaita Zone. The study has
applied three round Delphi questionnaire techniques to adapt the weights of criteria
used to measure performance and focus group discussion to group critical success
factors in respective categories. Questionnaires were distributed to respondents who
have been participating in the projects to rank 0 for least to 3 for highest performance
towards each sub criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability, which
later was composed to calculate the performance. Responses from 78 participants were
analyzed and the results show that rural road construction under universal rural road
access program in Wolaita Zone is successful by scoring 1.85 out of 3. But in terms of
relevance and sustainability, the program is less than successful by scoring 1.52 and
1.21 respectively. Regarding success factors, top twenty critical success factors were
identified and five are grouped under Client including ‘Timely payment’ which is the
first critical success factor, the next five and ten are grouped under Consultant and
Contractor related critical success factors respectively.
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Rural road, Performance, Critical success factors