Abstract:
Project Management remains a highly problematical endeavor these days. It fails to live up to the
expectations of stakeholders as they continue to be disappointed by projects‟ results. This study
was aimed to assess the practices and challenges of project management in public sectors of Guje
district. To achieve this objective, the study employees descriptive research design. To select the
representative sample from the total population, simple random sampling technique has been
used. To collect data questionnaire and interview used and documents analysis was analyzed by
descriptive statistics. SPSS version 22 was used for the analysis. The results of the study show
that the practices of resource mobilization, monitoring and valuation and risk management are
poor in project management of the study area. There are many challenges like time, cost and
quality, insufficiency of human resource and organizational were identified. For these
challenges, Guje woreda should step up its mercenaries in place in order to ensure effective
project management and control.
