Assessment of Strategic Alignment on Project Success: The Case of School Construction Projects Funded By United Nations Children's Fund Ethiopia Country Office
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2023-04
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Addis Ababa University
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The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is mandated and responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide; laid out Education Strategy 2019-
2030 themed “every child learns” strategic goal, implemented through programs and projects. The research paper has an objective to assess the strategic alignment on project success
through the specific case study of school construction projects implemented at Somali, Gambella & Beishangul-Gumuz regions after the launch of this strategy. Though defining project success is unequivocal to practitioners, yet it is adopted project success dimension of “Efficiency to schedule”, “Efficiency to budget”, and peculiar project success dimensions of “Impact on beneficiaries”, and “preparation for the future” in setting conceptual framework. The study adopts descriptive research design, employing census with primary data collected using questionnaire from the pertinent professional project team members, followed by descriptive statistics data analysis. The findings reveal on sub project success dimensions of “Efficiency to Schedule” and “Efficiency to Budget” in view of strategic alignment both found to be in fair degree rated as medium-high caliber calling an improvement on the same, in turn for better alignment to organization strategy. On the other project success dimensions of “Impact on Beneficiaries -Overall Performance” and “Preparing for future – investing for excellence” in view of strategic alignment, both are found to be high rated caliber, indicating the need to maintain furthest or stive for utmost. On aggregate, an above-high rating alignment caliber between the dependent variable of project success dimensions to the independent variable strategic alignment, to be exact a 4.1pt on 5pt scale or 82% alignment score is registered. In nutshell, the study pinpoints the significance of the strategic alignment (SA) on project success dimensions (PSD), through conducting an assessment and ultimately help enable uplift project success convergence to organizational strategic alignment. The case study, with all its limitations, reveals the significant of the strategic alignment on project success dimensions, as a high requirement towards meeting organization goal. The project paper recommends a continuous alignment calibration assessment in project phase gates, checking whether strategic aspirations are well aligning to corresponding relevant project success dimensions, and based on the findings adjust the convergence for a high-end organization strategic aspiration
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Project success