Developing a Computer Program to Solve the Implementation Problems of Public Investment Projects in Iraq

Abstract

The implementation of public investment projects in Iraq in terms of cost and time specified within the general investment budget and in terms of quality; requires analysis the obstacles facing the implementation of these projects and propose appropriate solutions to them through developing a proposed program to analyze and address the problems through project phases. The aim of research for developing a computer program comprises the identified problems as input to the program and the proposed treatments as output for it; to facilitate the work of the departments involved in projects in making decisions and to avoid repeat the previous mistakes. The researcher conducted personal interviews to identify (55) problems facing the public investment projects in Iraq grouped in (5) groups; legal and administrative, financial, technical, problems with documentary credits and other problems, conducting questionnaire survey to clarify the impact of these problems on the implementation process, using a statistical program (SPSS) to compute relative important index (RII) for them to identify the group that most impact on the implementation of public investment projects. A visual basic program with database (SQL) was utilized to analyze and treat the problems related to the subject of research. This program is equipped with the ability to withdraw reports on projects as (word, pdf, or excel). The results from research showed that there is (absences coordination between different service departments, delays in land acquisition procedures for projects, weakness of the possibility of most consultancy offices designed for projects, weakness of personals specialized in the preparation of technical and economic feasibility studies and inaccuracy of signed contracts with contractors… etc.).