Assessment of Factors Affecting Sponsorship Project Success In case of World Vision Ethiopia (WVE) Gewata Area Program

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 Community Engagement and Sponsorship Project contributes to the wellbeing of 28 million children including RC, their families and community by 2025. 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 52 respondents working in all levels of the organization’s projects. Data were collected through Self-administered Questions by using standardized questionnaire and analyzed using correlation, &binary logistic regression analysis. The results of the 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 author recommended that the government have to give attention to the basic infrastructures of the implementation areas. It may be recommended to take the study further by comparing the findings of this study to the International Project Management Association