Institutional factors contributing to poor project implementation in eastern Uganda: case study of Buyala rural development initiative in Jinja District
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2010-09
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Kampala International University,College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Abstract
The researcher established the extent to which institutional factors contributed to
poor project implementation in most NGOs. Although several institutional factors
influenced project implementation, this study nevertheless was l!rnited to the
influence of leadership, financial and human resources, BURUDI was selected as a
case study to understand the contribution of these variables to poor project
implementation.
Both qualitative and quantitative approaches were used to collect data, while the
quantitative method was used to enlicit information from individual respondents
about the variables under study and this was done through questionnaire interviews
and the data was analyzed using frequencies, percentages and correlation
efficiencies.
The study findings indicated how the BURUDI leadership contributed to poor project
implementation through inadequate communication, non- participative decision
making system and inadequate confidence and trustworthiness among members. In
addition inadequate financial resource and human resource contributed to poor
project implementation in Buyala Rural Development Initiative in jinja district. The
researcher therefore recommends that the projects management should improve on
the projects communication channels and there communication skills which will help
in having making ef
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A Thesis Presented to the School of Postgraduate Studies and Research Kampala International University Kampala, In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts in Project Planning and Management
Keywords
Project, Implementation