Determinants of project management success in Rwanda, evidence from sur’eau project of society for Family Health Rwanda

Abstract

Risk in project management remains inherent, however, the factors that drive the project success or failure dependent of the nature of project. of Several types of research exist in literature dealing with the mentioned topic, all of it an attempt to develop methods to aid project managers to evaluate their projects, if not objectively, at least systematically measuring project result is of extreme importance to everyone involved-managers, end-users implementation organization and other stakeholders. The idea of project success and failure is a topic often debated on by researchers and practitioners, yet rarely do these professionals agree on the factors that differentiate a successful project from a failed endeavor. This study inspects the degree of association and significance effect between project leadership, organization maturity, business driven approach, visibility, executive backing, user adoption and failure of SFH sur’eaux. The population of the study included SFH staff,sur’eaux clients and distributors in Kigali city. The study used mixed method to examine the six key drives of a successful project management such as strong leadership, organization maturity, business driven approach, executive backing, user adoption and visibility where related to the success or failure of my case study of sur’eau project of Society for Family Health Rwanda. The results showed that organization maturity level 3 contributed to the failure of sur’eau project at 67%. The results revealed that poor communication from SHF staff, water smells which is not good, chemical used created the insect and cost drive the failing of the sur’eau project. This study suggests to stakeholders to set a policy that should pay attention to communication and cost of the sur’eau product