Practices And Challengesof Infrastructural Development Project Management In Dukem City Administration

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