Factors Affecting the Successful Implementation of Projects: The Case of Manufacturing Projects Financed by Development Bank of Ethiopia at Addis Ababa and Its Surrounding Areas

he purpose of the study was to identify major factors that are affecting the successful imple-<br> mentation of projects; for the case manufacturing project financed by DBE at Addis Ababa<br> and its surrounding areas. The study has used both secondary and primary data sources. To<br> identify and rank major factors, Questioners were distributed to 104 randomly selected em-<br> ployee of DBE. Moreover, secondary data was collected from 122 projects that were financed<br> from 2013 to 2020 was considered for data analysis. The data was processed using the Statis-<br> tical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 24. Descriptive statistics such as standard<br> deviation and percentages were employed to describe primary data. Relative Importance In-<br> dex was computed to rank factors. The Secondary data was analyzed using Binary logistic re-<br> gression. The results of the study showed that kyc assessment practice by the Bank, Project<br> follow-up, project management experience and project planning are factors that are internal<br> factors that are positively affecting project implementation success while foreign currency<br> fluctuations significant external factors that is negatively affecting the successful implementa-<br> tion of the project. Accordingly, the study suggests that kyc assessment practice, project plan-<br> ning and project management should be strengthened by the Bank and also project design<br> change should be minimized after project implementation start.