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

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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

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