| dc.description.abstract | The purpose of the study was to establish the effects of monitoring on the Performance of church based projects funded by Compassion International Uganda. Specifically, the study assessed the effect of checking project outputs, project reports scrutiny and project reports examination on the performance of projects. Primary data was collected from a sample of 80 respondents which included 70 project employees and I0 project managers. Data from employees was collected using a structured questionnaire while an interview guide was used to collect data from project managers. Data was analyzed using descriptive, inferential and qualitative methods.
The findings revealed that checking project outputs and project records scrutiny have a significant positive effect on project performance, (r = 0.724, Adjusted r2 = 0.685; p-value < 0.05). Regularly checking operations of all staff to ensure that project resources are only used to pursue project goals and ensuring that employees give reasons for all their decisions and activities and operations of all employees are clearly understood by stakeholders has increased the performance of projects. While examination of project records and giving feedback to employees on the performance of projects was found essential in the performance of projects, little emphasis was placed on it. Project managers had little time to examine project reports and employees were given little opportunities to know how they are performing and any improvements they needed to make. Therefore, aspects of projects monitoring that started in profit making organization are essential to the performance of NGOs.
On the basis of the findings, it was recommended that Compassion International maintains the good practices of checking project outputs and records to ensure that they conform to project goals and improve her feedback process so as maintain good performance of her projects. | en_US |
