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    Assessing the challenges associated with project monitoring and evaluation of donor-funded construction projects in Ghana.
    (2021-07-06) Adanusa, Geoffrey Kwame;
    The construction industry plays a very important role in the provision of social amenities such as hospitals, schools, highways and other urban infrastructure development. It also contributes significantly to the GDP of any country. Donors have played a very important role with regard to social development process across the globe. Donor-funded projects have been the backbone for many developmental projects in developing countries. To realise the sustainability of these projects, monitoring and evaluation is very important. In developing countries such as Ghana, so much importance is attached to donor-funded projects. Despite this, their output in terms of time, quality and cost remains a concern for all stakeholders. Based on this, a study was conducted to assess the challenges associated with project monitoring and evaluation of donor-funded construction projects in Ghana. Three (3) objectives were put forward to realise the aim. They were; to examine monitoring and evaluation procedures with donor-funded construction projects in Ghana, to assess the challenges of monitoring and evaluation with donor-funded construction projects in Ghana and to explore factors (strategies) for effective monitoring and evaluation with donor-funded construction projects in Ghana. Quantitative method was adopted for the study with the distribution of questionnaires. In all, forty (40) respondents completed the questionnaire. They included, project managers, architects, quantity surveyors and engineers who have the requisite experience in the field of monitoring and evaluation. The data obtained was analysed with the aid of the Statistical Package for the Social Science (SPSS) and Microsoft Excel. Findings from the study depicted that lack of stakeholder involvement, lack of planning and budgeting and political interference were the main challenges of project monitoring and evaluation with donor-funded construction projects in Ghana. It was recommended that the involvement of stakeholders in monitoring and evaluation should not be taken likely, there should be adequate planning and budgeting and political interference should be curtailed in the monitoring and evaluation of donor-funded construction projects in Ghana.