Exploring stakeholders’ participation in project monitoring and control practices on project performance: A case study in Ketu North Municipal
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2021-06-30
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Project monitoring and control is ensuring that the project advances as its activities
has been planned. This ensures that the development of the understanding on project
progress which is helping in taking the appropriate actions in order to control the
failures that appears in the project. The aim of the research was to examine project
monitoring and control practices of project stakeholders, using Ketu North
Municipality a case study. The objectives of the study are: to determine the extent of
stakeholder involvement in project monitoring and control of projects of Ketu North
Municipality, to determine the effects of stakeholder involvement in monitoring and
control on performance of projects of Ketu North Municipality and lastly, to identify
the project monitoring and control challenges of project stakeholders in Ketu North
Municipality. A sample size of 100 was estimated where a response rate of 80% was
derived after the questionnaires were sent out to be answered by Ketu North
Municipality. The purposive sampling technique was used to select the sample from
the population whereas descriptive statistics presented by using the Statistical Package
for Social Sciences (SPSS) and Microsoft Excel and the data was further analyzed
using the Mean score ranking and Relative importance index (RII). It was found that
monitoring and control of project, spending execution, plan execution and quality
execution pressed extended achievement in project delivery. It was seen that
overseeing partners, collaboration among individuals and monitoring and control
practices of the task work were portion of the key procedures used to deal with the
venture work. The outcome showed that most technical experts and project users from
the survey training needs were not regularly assessed at Ketu North Municipality with
regard to monitoring and control practices and the training conducted in the Ketu
North Municipality was usually not evaluated to permit revision of programs. The
research recommends frequent training programs should be organized for technical
experts and project users within the municipality. Project management training should
be given to employees in charge of projects. This would increase the knowledge of
employees about different Project Management tools and techniques available for
appropriate choice
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A dissertation submitted to the Department of Construction Management and Technology, College of Art and Built Environment in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Science.
Keywords
Case Study, Participation, Project Monitoring and Control Practices, Project Performances, Stakeholders