Activity Planning and Success of Community Projects in Selected Organizations in Maroodijeex Region, Somaliland

Abstract Community development Project failure is standing issue that is common in ;omaliland which inhibits the improvement of socio-economic development of the ountry. The government of Somaliland attached great importance for all evelopmental projects as a developing edge of the country. The purpose of this study to determine and describe the impact of activity planning on success of community rojects of selected organizations in Maroodijeex region of Somaliland. This study is iming at knowing if there is significant difference of relationship between these two ariables (activity planning and success of community projects) which was not dequately sought out in the context in which this study covered. Descr4’tive survey esign was employed specifically the descriptive comparative and descr;~tive correlation Lrategies to discover the causal/differences relationships. Systematic random sampling ,as also used to pick out the respondents by ensure the eligibility criteria The ?searcher had a target population of 154 which are categorized as (96 international rganizations and 58 local organizations), using Slovene’s formula the researcher found ut a number of 111 respondents. The researcher adopted a face sheet and a ~searcher devised questionnaire in both IV and DV. The findings revealed that the ‘tale respondents dominated the local and international NGOs with a percentage of 9%. Young people at the age bracket of 20- 29 years also took a substantial role with 9%3, The level of activity planning in selected NGOs was important because of the ~íerage mean of 2.55, which is interpreted as important. The level of community evelopment projects the mean index indicated as 3.07 which is also interpreted as nportant. The null hypothesis was rejected by the r value (0.401) which indicates a Dsitive correlation between the two variables (r>0). The sig values (0:0000) indicate ‘tat the two variables are significantly correlated thus, the stated research hypothesis is jected, and the alternative is accepted leading to conclusion that activity planning and mmunity development projects sig. =0.0000 are significantly correlated at 0.05 level significance. The researcher also concluded that activity planning differs significantly :cording to the sex of the respondents (sig. 0.0379, t-value=2.843), male respondents ~ve greater (average mean 3.87) then female (average mean 3.53), that means male ~spondent show high importance on activity planning then female. Thus the researcher ~jected the null hypothesis and accepted the alternative “there ic siqnificant difference the level of activity planning among selected organL~ations according to their profile ‘iaracterLstics The basing on these results, Finally the researchers recommends that ‘s a collective responsibility of the government, NGO sector, profit organizations and te community to promote the skills of the project staff in Somaliland, and impose ~gulatory framework for proper implementation of project thus the development aid ill positively impact the socio-economic development of the society.