Abstract:
This study investigated practices and challenges of infrastructural development project
management in Dukem City Administration. To achieve its objectives, the study employed
a mixed method that involved the collection and analysis both quantitative and
qualitative data from a total of 230 study population 146 samples were selected. In
addition to 140 project staffs, project team leaders, contractors, clients and consultants
who selected using simple random sampling and took part in filling the survey
questionnaire, 6 individuals (2 project team leaders, 2 consultants, and 2 contractors)
were purposively selected and took part in key informant interviews. Frequency,
percentage, mean, and standard deviation were employed to analyze quantitative data
gathered using questionnaires. The study disclosed project organizational environment,
project integration management, project quality management, project cost management,
project human resource management as the top five challenges for infrastructural
development project implementation in the study area followed by procurement
management challenge, time management challenge, stakeholder management challenge,
risk management challenge, and communication management challenge respectively.
Project scope management imposes few challenges on implementation of infrastructural
development projects. These challenges hinder the overall economic and social
developments at local, regional and national levels. The need to clearly identify
communities pressing needs and priorities, the knowledge and skills, available resources,
technologies and the project environments, introducing and implementing efficient
change management and integrating infrastructural development projects with main
organizational activities, replace the existing traditional and bureaucratic procurement
procedures with technologies and reconsider the delay in supplying procured materials /
project inputs, and quality of procured materials were recommended
