Abstract

The study examined the relationship between monitoring and evaluation on the agriculture project productivity. The objectives of the study was to find out how strength of monitoring team, planning process and selection of tools & technics in the Agriculture project productivity. The explanatory research design method was adopted using quantitative methods and used closed ended questionnaire as a data collection instrument. The study was conducted at Kirehe District, KWAMP Project. The target population was 247 with 153 respondents and descriptive statistics, regression analysis, T-test and Significance P-value was used to test the hypothesis. Purpose and stratified sampling techniques were used to select respondents. Data was analyzed by using SPSS software. Data analyzed with regression model where p-value of strength of monitoring team, planning process in monitoring & evaluation and selection of tools and technics is less than 5% which means that all variables are statistically significant. Therefore the researcher concluded that strength of monitoring team, planning process in Monitoring & Evaluation and Selection of tools and technics have significance on the Agriculture project productivity at Kirehe District, Rwanda. This study recommend that there is a need in limiting urban farming and delegate proper zone farming and livestock. This can be done by encouraging people to work in cooperative and find appropriate land for cultivation concerning crop production and harvesting. Lastly, there is still a need in boosting management and trainings programs for youth involvement in agriculture. However, this point should discover closely the risk identification in agriculture operations.

Keywords: Monitoring and Evaluation, Strength of monitoring team, Planning process in monitoring & evaluation and Selection of tools and technics and Agriculture project productivity.