Determinants of Project Success In Case Of World Vision Ethiopia (WVE) Jimma Area Program Health Projects.

Abstract

Project management success is extremely interesting topic from scientific, as well as practical point of view. World Vision Ethiopia is now implementing various activities with the goal of reducing of Maternal and New Born Morbidity and Mortality. This study is designed to investigate the determinants of project success in World Vision Ethiopia. It adopted a cross sectional research design and collected primary quantitative data from 123 respondents working in all levels of the organization project and partners from woreda. Data were collected through Self-administrative Questions by using approved questionnaire and analyzed using correlation, binary logistic regression analysis. The results of study showed that the more projects have clearly defined project communications management have positive influences as: project are more likely to respects cost estimation; risk management; team is well-built and managed; fund increased; monitoring and evaluation on time increased and Sustainability is increased. A range of independent variables were regressed against the dependent variable (project success) using the binary logistic regression model. The findings revealed that detail project design, work plan, cost estimation, strict project scope management, strict communication management and well-established infrastructures in implementation area program were found to be positive and statistically significant whereas timely and regular monitoring was found to be negative and statistically significant.The authors recommended that the government has to give attention to the basic infrastructures of the implementation areas. It is recommended to take the study further by comparing the findings of this study to the International Project Management Association.