Abstract:
The study was carried out to analyze the role of project planning on the performance of Government project in Rwanda, a case study of Gishoma Power Plant Project. The specific objectives were to assess the practices of project planning at Gishoma Power Plant project, to find out the contribution of project planning on the project performance in Gishoma Power Plant project and to find out the effect of project planning variables on the performance of Gishoma Power plant. The four hypotheses were formulated and the descriptive survey design study was conducted on 11 respondents through purposive sampling based on questionnaire. Collected data sets were analyzed by SPSS- 20 software. The study employed the regression model to study the effect of project planning on the performance of Gishoma Power Plant project.
The results showed that the planning practices are existing to Gishoma Power plant project and this contribute significantly to the performance of the project. The results based on OLS model show that project planning affects statistically and significantly project performance resulted in time, cost, and quality variables. Furthermore, this study did not find the effect of project planning on Client / stakeholders satisfaction. This result suggested that they must be extensive research for Project planning and Client / stakeholders satisfaction performance. The Government, new investors and program managers should take in consideration the barriers of project planning
