Bahran Asrat (PhD)Selamawit Getachew2024-03-132024-03-132022-06https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/2480Community health research projects are inherently complex, have sought to involve patients and other stakeholders in the center of the project. Substantial evidence has now been provided that stakeholder involvement is essential for management effectiveness projects. The MOH has newly designed a national program called Major city medical emergency, injury and critical care improvement program (MEICIP). This program aims to address the prioritized critical gaps and support the health facilities and cities to ensure integration of pre-hospital, emergency, injury and critical care services in selected major cities of the country. The overall objective of this work is assessing challenges and current practices of stakeholder management in MEICIP project. This research is descriptive cross sectional study and its survey which assesses Stakeholders management and its practice and challenges for successful project management of MEICIP program. Stakeholders of the project are engaged throughout the different stages of the project, but in practice there are limitations in keeping all stakeholders involved as per the set plans throughout the different stages of projects. This study recommends that the level of engagement of stakeholders in projects is not as expected and there are limitations in keeping all stakeholders involved as per the set plans throughout projects life cycle. Therefore the organization should closely work on better engaging the stakeholders of projectsen-USThesis