This research aims to determine whether the prearranged educational investments and otherrnplanned activities organized by NGOs underAddis Ababa City Administration Education Bureaurnachieve their objectives within their predetermined time frames and budgets or not . To do this,rncross sectional descriptive survey design and a mixed research method were employed.rnQuantitative data collected via structured and unstructured questionnaires withprojectrndepartment heads (n=17), executive officers (n=7), educationalexperts (n=24)with totalrnfromAAEB (n=48), andproject execution officers (n=44) and projectmanagers (n=22) with totalrnfrom NGOs (n=66) and qualitative data collected via semi-structured interviews (n=24) &rn(n=22) from AAEB and NGOs respectively with total 46 interviewee.Additionally, institutionalrndocuments were reviewed to inform the study.Simple random technique was used to selectrnexecution officers & experts and purposive sampling techniques was applied for acquisition ofrndepartment head and project managersfrom Both AAEB and NGOs respectively to collectrnquantitative and qualitative data. Quantitative data were analyzed via SPSS V.20 computerrnsoftware and qualitative data were analyzed by narration of themes.The major findings of thernstudy has indicatedonthe status of the major projects implementation processes; degree ofrninvolvement of stakeholders in plan and design of projects were less, the extent of planning forrnproject implementation was midway, key stakeholders were not involved in the planning asrnexpected and project managerswere averagely capable to manage overall projects. Furthermore,rnfindings of the study has revealed aims and objectives of the projects were not entirely decidedrnby stakeholders, there were gap between intended and achieved objectives, risks of the projectsrnwere considered only some extents before commencement of project and need assessment werernnot conducted properly before project starts.In addition, findings of the study has indicated thatrnthere were challenges that hindered the implementation of projects at starting time of thernprojects, middle of the projects and finishing on a time of the projects.Even though the problemsrnwere averagely serious at all stages, degree of being seriousness were more critical at finishingrntime of the projects.Moreover, the findings of the research underlined that the involvement ofrnstakeholders in M&E was less and no skilled expert in M&E of projects implementation, morernconcern was given for formal M&E system.On basis of the findings obtained and conclusionsrnreached at the recommendation given for instance key stakeholdersadvised to participation onrnplanning, designing and deciding project objectives and aims to termination of the projects,rnconsider the risks of projects and made need of assessment before commencement of the projectrnimplementation andassign right project managers at right position at right time and regularlyrnupdates managersâ€™ skill by offering necessary training, more concern given to finishing time ofrnthe project to mitigate problems, formulatesystematic follow-p mechanisms, arrange intensiverntraining in project implementation for those experts, create awareness for beneficiaries,offerrntraining for M&E offers and use both formal and informal M&E interchangeably.