Factors affecting the performance of universal rural roads access programme contractors in Adama woreda: A case study

Abstract

In construction, many problems affect the performance of the project. In this independent project work, this project would show the factors that are pertinent to the performance of Universal Rural Road Access program contractors in Adama woreda. Here the data is collected by interview and observation while the some contractors were on action. Then the data collected was analyzed qualitatively. Sampling method used was purposive sampling. The result shows that there are two categories of factors. Internal factors and external factors. The result shows that both factors have high contribution on poor performance of the contractor. Qualitatively discussing of the factors, the researcher shows each factors impact. However, in case of controllability, external factors are difficult to control for the contractors. Trust between member of the contractor from internal factors and payment delay from external factors are seen as serious factors. In addition, timely release of the payment lack of doing deep and clear research before starting the programme, developing business relations for external factors and creating deep partnership between members are seen as good for performance of the contractors. Therefore, further investigation in this area for the future is necessary for the reduction of this factors effec