Determinants of Project Performance of Non Governmental Organization at Seka Chekorsa District Jimma Zone, Oromia Regional State Ethiopia

Abstract

The study was designed to investigate the determinants of project performance in nongovernmental organization. Several performance problem and target deviation in NGO are observed. Identifying and measuring performance problem in different projects is the mandatory to take corrective action. A qualitative research design specially descriptive and inferential techniques was used for the study. Data was collected from a total of 18 projects implemented from 2016 to 2019.Six senior managers, eight branch managers, fourteen branch accountants and forty-two field officers, totally 70 (35%) project members was used as sample by using stratified sampling by using proportion formula (p x n/N) from a total of 140’s project team member. Then data was collected by self administered questionnaires. A rage of independent variable is including project planning, project leadership, project implementation, project monitoring and controlling versus dependent variable project performance, are incorporated in the frameworks. Data was analyzed by using updated Statistical Package of Social Science 25 version. Further, reliability and validity of data was checked by different tests, correlation and multiple regression analysis was used to establish the relationship between the dependent and the independent variables, and the study reveals the group of variables had strong correlation and significant results thus all observed variables have significant relationship with project performance (p<.000) with strong positive correlations between project leadership (r (70) =.837, p=.000), project implementation (r (70) =.861, p=.000), project monitoring and controlling (r (70) =.795, p=.000), Project planning (r (70) =.897, p=.000) and also multiple linear regression were performed and the independent variables in the model explained 83 % of the variation on the dependent variable. Thus factors have great effect on determining project performance. The study concludes project leadership, Planning, implementation, monitoring and controlling strongly affect project performance and the study recommend identifying determinants of project was not limited to NGOs but also joint cooperation among stakeholders are required additionally gender balance while recruiting employees needs attention.