| Abstract: | Monitoring and Evaluation of projects is one of the key processes of project management through the gathering of information and assessment of it to determine whether progress is being made towards pre-specified goals and objectives and to highlight whether there are any unintended (positive or negative) effects from a project and its activities. The purpose of this study is to assess the practices and challenges of monitoring and evaluation of ethio-telecom, in the case of fixed network projects. A descriptive type of study with purposive sampling technique; based on the criteria of their prior knowledge, capacity and experience of monitoring and evaluation and quantitative research design to collect data was used to assess monitoring and evaluation practices. A total of 36 respondents were drawn from different levels, which included the officials in ethio-telecom fixed network project. Questionnaires have been used as data collection tools, data analysis was done through a special program known as Statistical package for social Science (SPSS) and Microsoft excel,2022 findings of this study showed that the current M&E practices applied in ethio-telecom had a good practice in M&E planning but also indicates the existence of poor motivation scheme for personnel participating on the M&E activity to improve effectiveness of M&E and Stakeholders perform their responsibility is ineffective. The effectiveness of the project due to monitor and evaluation practices were affected by that lack of having effective project in planning, lack of expertise for monitoring and evaluation, lack of stakeholder engagement on monitoring and evaluation, lack of management support, unavailability of funding for M&E, inaccuracy in data collection, failure to process and analyze data, percent failure to have appropriate evaluation design .Therefore, based on the findings, it is suggested that training, motivation should be provided to enhance the stakeholders in the M&E practices This is important to have a common understanding across the stakeholders since in a project different stakeholders involve too and further help to conduct effective project M&E. |
