The results show that the big number of respondents is aged between
30-39 years old represented by 55.4% of the entire respondents and the smallest
number were those above 60 years old represented by 1.8% of the
respondents. The results show that the
participants attend this researcher were 56 of who most of them were females (64.3% of the total
respondents) while male were 35.7% of the total respondents. This implies that most respondents involved in this study
were females due the various
factors existed in Rwandan
home-grown solution that women were empowered and now are responsible as well as participating in political and job
opportunities. The results show that most respondents are well educated since
26.8 % of the total respondents attended master education level,
37.5% of the total respondents attended bachelor’s degree, 25%% of the total respondents attended secondary school
while 8.9% and 1.8 attended secondary and primary education level. The findings
show that most respondent have at least between 3 years of working experience
since 30.4% of them have 3-5
years working experience, 28.6% have 5-7 working experience while 23.2% have 8 and more
year of experiences. The NIRDA staffs were requested to react on the study
questions in order to assess the Monitoring and Evaluation tools and its effect
on Performance of Industrial development projects in Rwanda, especially for
Burera Diary Ltd as a case study. The findings showed that monitoring was being done on daily basis and most of possible time as highlighted by 39.3% and 46.5% while evaluation
done during the starting of the project, midterm and end line of projects as shown by 71.4 of the total respondents. This shows that both monitoring and evaluation are being used at Burera
Diary Ltd to capture the
implementation level of the project and document the results being achieved. The findings show that the respondents
were strongly agreed that NIRDA
has in place the monitoring and
evaluation tools to be used in tracking
the Performance and project
Performance as reported by hundred
percent (28 NIRDA staffs) of respondents. In addition, 92.9% (26 out of 28 NIRDA staffs) reported that M&E manuals and framework (Result monitoring
measurement framework (RMMF) guide
are existed and useful to capture
the needed project data and measurement of Performance level. Meanwhile,
M&E are conducted regularly and provide relevant information as reported by
a hundred percent of the expected respondents while 96.4% of them were strongly
agreed that the content
of M&E tools provide enough
details on the project
implementations which orient
project/program at the end. The table 4.7 showed that 67.9% were strongly agreed that the developed
indicators were being
monitored and evaluated regularly, 89.3% of them were also strongly agreed that the
developed Performance indicators track project/program changes and provided the
details information on the Performance of the program
at Burera Diary Ltd
while 75% of the reported that there is an appropriate way to monitor and
evaluate the project/program progress
made along its implementations. This indicates that the M&E
indicators were well developed and helpful to attain the
Performance project/program implementations at NIRDA, especially at Burera
Diary Ltd. The result from interview of staffs showed that RMMF and M&E
manuals were most useful M&E
tools used by NIRDA M&E
team to monitor and evaluate Burera Diary Ltd projects. They highlighted
the aggregates and disaggregates indicators to be monitored and evaluated
include number of new assessed
market, number of new jobs created, changes in sales and productions, changes
in technologies used, changes in profits, changes in exports. And assess how these
listed indicators shall impact the lives of communities, the beneficiaries
responded that their lives improved and more changes happened in their families
like most of them bought land, built the houses and pay the tuition fees of
their children shows that project/program team have enough
skills and knowledge and they were expert with relevant qualification as agreed by 92.9% and 96.45 of the respondents while other 7.1%
were disagreed about the statement. This helped them to prepare
a good Performance on time as reported by 78.6% of the respondents while 92.95% of them the
evaluations were conducted regularly respecting of baseline data, midterm and end term evaluation. This infers that the M&E team were
strong enough along the period of study to capture the Performance of the
projects/programs at Burera Diary Ltd project. The findings show that 78.6% of
the respondents were agreed that the implemented project/program achieved their
objectives as they planned, 82.1% of them agreed that scope of implemented
project ensured and supported the effectiveness, efficiency of the project
sustainability and Performance, 92.9% of them reported that M&E team have
required quality standards techniques/procedures to conduct monitoring and
evaluation activities. This impacted positively the implemented projects in term of competitiveness as agreed
by 96.4% of the respondents. At the end, this showed
that the provided support changes the lives conditions of the implemented project beneficiaries and entire
communities are strongly
agreed by 89.3% of
NIRDA staffs involved
in the ongoing study. This was
either in term of production
capacity (as strongly agreed by a hundred percent) and quality (as strongly agreed
by 89.3%) as well as profit
maximization (as strong agreed by 85.7%)
since the projects fund which were available were being used smoothly as were agreed by 78.6 of NIRDA staffs. The results show that 56.3%
of the involved project beneficiaries were strongly agreed that
monitoring and evaluation held by Burera Diary Ltd under the supervision of
NIRDA increased the production level in last three years.
This was well proved
by an increase in number
of employees as 56.3% were also strongly agreed while 43.8%
were strongly agreed that their factory got the profit along the last three year of the study. The real
evidence is based on 37.5% of the beneficiaries who were strongly disagreed that their factories
did get any loses. The results show that 83.3% of beneficiaries were strongly agreed
that the existence of their factories contributed
to the Rwanda Economy, the mentioned factories distributed their cheaper
quality product everywhere in Rwanda
as agreed by 58.3% and 50%
respectively. The results from the interview guide for project’s
beneficiaries showed that most of them achieved more like to build their own
house, endowment them, starting new generating project as their own investment
for better being healthy, buying moto vehicles, they produce various products
yogurt. This income
generated from the sold
product by CPC helped CPC’s beneficiaries to access to heal care through paying
mutual health insurance. The findings show that there was an increasing in
total revenues from Rwf 22,000,000 in 2018 to Rwf 46,400,000,000 in 2020 and the number of
total employees has been increased from 14 employees in 2018 to 27 employees
in 2020. The results showed that there was a strong
positive relationship between M&E tools, M&E indicators, M&E
team and Burera Diary Ltd Performance along the period of the study from 2018-2020. This means that as M&E
increased, Burera Diary Ltd
CPC’s Performance also increased accordingly due to the regular follow-ups held by NIRDA.
This fits the literature from Jackson, Joseph, and Ben, who found that effective Monitoring and
evaluation affect the projects with
reference to technical capacity, political influence, stakeholders?
participation of Constituency Development Fund (CDF) projects in Kenya at 85.6%
model variances as effectiveness in Monitoring and evaluation at 5% [3].
The findings show that R-square of 0.876 shows that project Performance of
Burera Diary Ltd are completely explained by M&E held by Burera Diary Ltd
under the supervision of NIRDA along the period of the study i.e from 2018 to
2020. The null hypothesis states that the mean variance of M&E tools,
M&E indicators, M&E team are equal and the results from the table 4.18
shows that p-value was less significant level of 0.05. This lead to reject the
null hypothesis and conclude that monitoring and evaluation have different mean. Therefore, since all sig values for the selected CPC were less than 0.05. The research
concluded that there was a statistically significant difference between
M&E tools, M&E indicators, M&E team toward
Performance of selected
CPC. These results from the regression model of Burera Diary Ltd: i.e
Y=8.774 + 0.067 X1 + 0.066 X2 + 0.054 X2, the results from the table 4.22 shows
that by holding other variables constant, Burera Diary Ltd Ltd Performance was
8.774. On the other side, an increase in one unit of M&E tools lead to an increase
of 0.067 unite by
holding other variable
constant; an increase
of one unit in M&E indicators increase 0.066 unite by holding
others variable constant while an increase of one unit in
M&E team increases 0.054 unite by holding others variable constant.
Hypothesis of the research stated that monitoring and evaluation has no
significant effect on the Performance of industrial development projects at Burera
Diary Ltd from 2018-2020. Finding showed that M&E tools, M&E
indicators and M&E team are significant since all t-values in absolute
value are greater than 1.96 at significant level of 0.05. This implies
that the null hypothesis was rejected and concluded that M&E has good
Performance in increases in number
of employees resulted from regularly
monitoring and evaluation has a positive and
significant effect on Performance of industrial of Burera Diary Ltd. Hypothesis of the research
stated that monitoring and evaluation has no significant effect on the
Performance of industrial development projects along the period of the study.
Finding from the table showed that all t-values in absolute value are greater
than 1.96 at significant level of 0.05. This implies that the null hypothesis
was rejected and concluded that M&E tools, M&E indicators and M&E
team are significant and have a positive
and significant effect
on Performance of Industrial development of Burera Diary Ltd projects in Rwanda [4-16].