Determinants of Projects Implementation Performance in Gedeo Zone With Special Reference to Private Investment
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: Economic and political reforms have been introduced in Ethiopia and these have boosted private investment over the last three decades. The reforms have brought measurable improvements, but the progress of private investment development has remained slow. Hence, this study was conducted with the main objective of identifying the determinants of private project implementation performance in Gedeo Zone. The researcher collected data from investors by structured questionnaires from 178 investors using stratified sampling technique. The researcher employed both an explanatory and descriptive research approach. Both qualitative and quantitative methods of data analysis techniques have employed using spss version 20. To conduct analysis of the data researcher used descriptive and logit model. Major challenges faced in Gedeo zone administration was shortage of access to road, electricity in rural areas of Gedeo Zone, shortage of finance, that is basically concerned with the higher need of banks for collateral requirements to grant investment loans and the incapacity of private investors to meet financial institutions' collateral requirements, sectorial ignorance of financial institutions in their credit policy, basically in agriculture. The research found that business experience, and training and project preparations deficiency of infrastructure facilities and access to credit determine private investment projects implementation performance in Gedeo zone. Based on the findings of the study, the government should revise credit access, procedures, and governance, infrastructural facilities, like power supply, water and road access.
DOI: 10.20372/nadre:19037
Author: ADANE ABEBE
Language: English
Subfield: Strategy and Management
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7082631112
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