The Impact of Project Governance on Project Success of the UN International Organizations Operating in the Gaza Strip

Abstract

The current study focuses on analyzing the impact of project governance on the success of projects implemented by 13 of the United Nations Organizations operating in the Gaza strip. This study follows the quantitative analytical approach and adopting the questionnaire technique as a data collection tool. Data were collected from a random cluster sample of 200 employees who works in project-related positions in the targeted organizations. SPSS program V.22 was utilized to analyze the collected data. The study results revealed the followings: First, there is a positive impact of project governance on project success. Second, the contractual governance is the most important type of governance where this criterion got the highest weight among the other criteria with a weight of 71.42. Third, the governance of project orientation is a highly positive criterion, which affects the success of any project with a weight of 69.25. Fourth, the other types of governance; governance of project management and relational governance, have a medium effect on projects governance where their effect is relatively lower than the previous kinds of governance with a weight of 66.79 and 67.07, respectively. Finally, the findings showed that the compliance of UN organizations in projects budget is considered the most critical success factor, which affects greatly on the success of any UN projects. The researcher recommended on the importance for UN organizations to consider the contractual governance as the main item of governance due to its importance on projects success where it implies the whole picture between UN organizations and implementing parties. In addition, UN organizations should monitor the implementation of projects phases through developing a systematic governing plan that contains systematic steps undertaking by each department