The Influence Of Compliance With Projects’ Requirements On Community Economic Projects’ Performance Outcomes: Analysis From TASAF-III Beneficiaries Perspectives In Tanzania

Abstract

Compliance with project requirements and project performance are said to have causal–effect relationship. However, the level of influence that compliance with project requirements exerts to projects performance outcomes in Tanzania based community economic development (CED) projects is yet to be overtly revealed. The study assessed the influence of project compliance with requirements on projects performance outcomes. Specifically, the study analysed the influence of projects’ regulatory, technical and designing requirements on TASAF-III supported CED projects’ performance outcomes in Tanzania. A cross-sectional design with multiple cases approach was used to study twelve TASAF-III supported CED projects from six impact wave districts in Tanzania. The said projects, districts and regions were selected using stratified sampling method. Simple random sampling was used to choose a sample of 192 poor households for the study. Data were collected using research schedules and were descriptively and inferentially analyzed with the aid of SPSS software. Ordinal regression model was a test statistic used for the study. The results shown all significant project requirements’ attributes (under regulatory, technical and designing) to be negative predictors of projects performance outcomes. The negative significant prediction of the assessed variables denoted that the observed institutional (TASAF) failure on income poverty relief is more related to its inapt definition of right project requirements with positive predictive validity than on compliance domains. The results are consistent with the Theory of Regulatory Compliance premise that wrongly defined project requirements cannot realize the positive predictive outcome. Institutional review for TASAF-III defined projects requirements is therefore recommended–as the continued use of the said negative predictive requirements reduces the success likelihood of TASAF-III projects’ performance outcomes than they could upturn chances for the same.