Project Evaluation and Performance of Roads Construction in Rwanda: A Case of Nyarutarama Property Developers COTRACO Projects

Abstract

The general objective of this study was to determine the degree to which Rwandan road building performance is influenced by the evaluation of road projects. The specific goals were to examine the road construction project evaluation process and its effect on Rwanda's road construction performance, to assess the impact of formative project evaluation on Rwanda's road construction performance, and to evaluate the impact of summative project evaluation on Rwanda's road construction performance. Descriptive research design was adopted for this study as it assessed a sample at one specific point in time without trying to make inferences or causal statements; the target population is composed of sixty-six (66) fulltime workers of NPD – COTRACO Ltd in Rwanda who spends their working hours of the day in road construction activities in this company. The sampling technique was census. In this research work, questionnaires, and documentation data collection techniques were used. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS (version 23.0) software. It was first edited, categorized, or coded and computerized. Mean and standard deviation were utilized in descriptive statistics, while regression analysis was employed in inferential statistics to identify and demonstrate the strength of the link between the variables. The findings show that process evaluation relates positively with performance of road construction projects and cannot be concluded that this variable affects the dependent variable since (β=0.063, p˃0.05; p=0.360); There is a positive relationship between formative evaluation and performance of road construction of NPD-COTRACO as results are statistically significant since (β=0.875, p<0.5; p=0.000); and summative evaluation relates positively with performance of road construction of NPD-COTRACO and cannot be concluded that this variable affects the dependent variable since (β=0.59, p˃0.5; p=0.265). The recommendation that construction companies need to have a budget covering the whole of the project as the budget affects the performance of road construction implementation was provided. Keywords: Project Evaluation, Performance of Roads Construction, Nyarutarama Property Developers COTRACO, Rwanda