The Role of Project Identification and Design Practice on Project Success in Developmental Projects: The Case of Addis Ababa Water and Sewerage Authority
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2023-06
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Addis Ababa University
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Effective project identification and design practices are critical for ensuring development projects achieve their intended outcomes and have a positive impact on the communities they serve. The urban water sector in Ethiopia faces a number of challenges when it comes to project identification and design. These challenges can range from political and economic factors to technical and environmental issues. Many projects are often initiated without proper analysis of the local context and without assessing the potential impacts of the project on the community and environment. The objective of the study is to analyze the factors that contribute to successful project identification and design, and their role on project success in developmental projects particularly assessing the case of Addis Ababa water and sewerage authority. In relation to this, the study assessed the influence of need identification, stakeholder involvement, feasibility study, requirement analysis, purpose establishment, scope definition, Government policy and regulations on success of water developmental projects. Mixed survey instrument used, where tools pre-tested the required tests of validity and reliability using the necessary methods prior to dissemination. The data collected including quantitative via interview guide and qualitative data from respondents chosen through purposive sampling technique and out of the 110 questionnaires disseminated to the respondents in different divisions of the organization 104 responses were obtained and analyzed which makes the response rate around 94.54 %. Descriptive statistics used to measure the established data whereas the relationship between the study variables assessed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient using SPSS software where the predictor variables found to have a positive correlation with the dependent variable. Furthermore, multiple linear regression analysis was conducted to measure the magnitude of association between project identification and design constructs and project success where need identification requirement analysis, feasibility study, stakeholder involvement and purpose establishment found to be significantly associated while the remaining two constructs scope definition and government policy and regulations were not significantly associated. As a the result of regression analysis multiple coefficients of determination or R square (R2=.474) exhibited that 47.4% of variations in the measurement of Project success can be explained by fundamentals that constitute project identification and design which are being called predicting variables. Hence, based on the findings key recommendations were made that it is important to involve all stakeholders in the project initiation processes and it is also important to establish proper scope definition in the project initiation process to positively contribute project success
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project identification and design