Assessment Of Performance And Critical Success Factors Of Rural Road Construction In South Ethiopia A Case Study Of Universal Rural Road Access Program (urrap) In Wolaita Zone

Connecting rural areas each other and to main roads is vital for Ethiopia as larger part rnof its’ population are rural dwellers. To accelerate combating of poverty in these areas, rnGovernment was working to increase rural road network. The purpose of this research rnis, therefore, to present the status of performance and associated factors of rural road rnconstruction under universal rural road access program in Wolaita Zone. The study has rnapplied three round Delphi questionnaire techniques to adapt the weights of criteria rnused to measure performance and focus group discussion to group critical success rnfactors in respective categories. Questionnaires were distributed to respondents who rnhave been participating in the projects to rank 0 for least to 3 for highest performance rntowards each sub criteria of relevance, effectiveness, efficiency and sustainability, which rnlater was composed to calculate the performance. Responses from 78 participants were rnanalyzed and the results show that rural road construction under universal rural road rnaccess program in Wolaita Zone is successful by scoring 1.85 out of 3. But in terms of rnrelevance and sustainability, the program is less than successful by scoring 1.52 and rn1.21 respectively. Regarding success factors, top twenty critical success factors were rnidentified and five are grouped under Client including ‘Timely payment’ which is the rnfirst critical success factor, the next five and ten are grouped under Consultant and rnContractor related critical success factors respectively.

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