The effect of monitoring and evaluation to project performance in Rwanda. A case study of World Vision 2013-2017 (PDF)

Master's Thesis from the year 2020 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, , language: English, abstract: Rwanda, like other African countries, local government is responsible for delivering basic services (e.g. access to potable water, proper sanitation, a sustainable electricity supply, and regular waste removal).

The major problem of World vision faces is development of its projects in Rwanda is lack of effective monitoring and evaluation. Therefore, this study aimed at assessment of monitoring and evaluation on project performance. The specific objectives were to study the effect of compliance to quality standards on Project performance of world Vision in Rwanda, to analyse the effect of compliance to activity cost on Project performance of World vision in Rwanda, to study the effect of compliance to activity duration on Project performance of world Vision in Rwanda, to examine the relationship between monitoring and evaluation and the project performance in World Vision Rwanda.

To achieve the above objectives, a combination of questionnaires, interview and analyzing financial and other reports were used. Questionnaires were distributed to a group of 22 respondents selected from among the staffs and interview was done with the Director of Finance, Monitoring and Evaluation department. Both purposive and universal sampling techniques were applied in the study. Findings revealed that three techniques of monitoring and evaluation namely Compliance to Quality standards, Compliance to activity cost, Compliance to Activity duration were studied fully and the findings indicated that World Vision Rwanda have all the activities of improving these techniques of which help to better the Project performance.

To assess the effect of variation in predictors, multiple regressions were performed. Effective Monitoring and evaluation is well supported under specific activities that are tackled both tactically and strategically hence better project performance and this was represented by Correlation. The correlation coefficient of 0.786 between monitoring and Evaluation and Project performance is high which means that Monitoring and evaluation has very high effect on the Project performance. The 72.5% of the variation in project performance is explained by the combined effect of compliance to quality standard, Compliance to activity cost and compliance to activity duration . The compliance to quality standard appears as the best predictor.