| Abstract: | Cost management in the public health project is critical to the country's long term
Socioeconomic and environmental growth, beneficiary ownership, and project continuity. In
Africa project performance of public health projects is not guaranteed with most of the
projects failed to achieve their long-term goals with numerous costs overrun and schedule
delays. This study identified three variables that influence cost management on the
performance of donor health projects in Addis Ababa Health Bureau. Specifically, this study
looked at Project Cost control, Project Resource planning, Project, and cost budgeting. The
target population was 250 professionals working on donor funded health projects where a
sample of 115 was drawn. Key respondent in this study were senior managers, project
managers, medical officers, and assistances. where 115 questionnaires were administered to
them. 80 of the questionnaire were completed & retrieved successfully. The response rate for
the study was 70%. The study conducted both explanatory and descriptive statistics. The
study found that Project Cost control, Project Resource planning, Project cost budgeting
significantly influenced performance of donor funded projects in target organization. The
variables explained only by 17.7% of change in performance of donor funded project in
target organization. The study recommended more focus should be given for other variables
out of cost control, this is because the two variables, resource planning and cost budgeting
shows slight effect in determining the project performance. |
