PRACTICE AND CHALLENGES OF MONITORING AND EVALUATION SYSTEM OF CAPITAL PROJECTS IN THREE SELECTED SECTORS

Abstract

An extensive and efficient infrastructure is important in ensuring an effective functioning of the economy as a whole. With the quality and extensiveness of infrastructure networks (such as communications and transport) not only significantly impacts the economic growth but also have the power to affect level of income inequalities and poverty among countries in several ways. Properly implemented projects are crucial for success of an economy if these are accomplished with a fully specified and coherent set of goals and means, as well as their placement within a suitable institutional framework. This study was conducted as a case study to identify practice and challenges of monitoring and evaluation system of capital projects in three purposively selected sectors namely Agriculture and natural resource development office, Health office and Water, mining and energy development office in Enore woreda, Guraghe zone. Descriptive research design in addition to mixed research approach was applied to collect data, encode data, analyze and interpret the collected data; and purposive sampling technique was applied to select the sectors. Additionally, fifty six respondents as sample size were randomly selected out of sixty five employeesthat were identified from these three sectors as total population. Amharic version of pre-tested semi structured questionnaire was distributed to these randomly selected respondents. Collected primarydata was analyzed using descriptive statistics using SPSS software(version-20). As a result, analysis result indicated that assigning internal and external professional officers to practice monitoring & evaluation of capital projects is not satisfactory. Additionally, more than sixty percent of the respondents assured that the sectors are not practicing on time discussion to solve any capital projects related problems. Furthermore, lack of professional experts, officers’ and contractors’ attitudinal problems, lack of cooperation among stakeholders are core challenges or problems what the sectors face in monitoring and evaluation of capital projects. Therefore, the government should give especial attention to follow strategic approach to ensure radical change in monitoring and evaluation of capital projects