Influence of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Successful Implementation of Government’s Strategic Projects in Tanzania: A Case of the Construction of Standard Gauge Railways (SGR) Project.

Jumanne, Mtowa Kibonge (2022) Influence of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Successful Implementation of Government’s Strategic Projects in Tanzania: A Case of the Construction of Standard Gauge Railways (SGR) Project. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The COVID-19 is a global pandemic that changed the global economic perspective. Even though, the government of Tanzania did not declare lockdown or curfew like most of the countries in the world, but this pandemic still affected different sectors such as economic, social and environmental domains. However, a severe impact is being taken place in various government projects especial project progress, costs and duration which leading to projects delay or termination. This study assesses various influence of COVID-19 pandemic during implementation of the Standard Gauge Railways (SGR) project in Tanzania and necessary measures required to improve or ensure the successfulness of the project. The study used survey research strategy to collect data from 50 respondents. Quantitative data from questionnaires were edited, coded and analyzed descriptively by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (IBM-SPSS version 20) software whereby frequency and percentages were obtained. Results of the findings indicated that, demographic, economic, environmental and social factors in this study have significant relationship to the successfulness of the project due to the techniques applied to combat the impact of COVID-19 pandemic. However, this study recommends that, the execution of the SGR project should continue as it was before the pandemic but considering health guidelines and recommendation against COVID-19 disease. Also, prior older should be set on what to be done physically and what to be done online depending on the sensitivity of the matter. Moreover, online activities with the help of communication software are highly recommended for replacing physical project activities. Hence, technologies discovered and adopted during pandemic such online training and workshop should continue even after the end of COVID-19 pandemic because they save time and cost of the project. Keywords: Impact of COVID-19, Implementation and Government’s Strategic Projects

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