Executive Master’s Degree Awarded to Researcher Adnan Yahya Abbas Ibrahim in Public Administration

Researcher Adnan Yahya Abbas Ibrahim was awarded an Executive Master’s Degree in Public Administration for his thesis titled: The Impact of Project Management on Institutional Performance at General Corporation for Roads and Bridges, which was submitted to the Public Administration Center – Sana’a University. The MA defense was held on Tuesday, October 6, 2026‎‎.

The MA Viva-voce Committee, which was formed based on a resolution issued by the Graduate Studies and Scientific Research Council, consisted of the following:

·Prof. Abdulkhaleq Hadi Mohsen Tawaf – External Examiner and Chair.

·Assoc. Prof. Ali Abdullah Hassan Al-Awadhi – Supervisor and Committee Member.

·Dr. Khaled Ahmed Hussein Al-Qaidani – Internal Examiner and Committee Member.

The research aimed to investigate the impact of project management on institutional performance at the General Corporation for Roads and Bridges by examining the levels of project management and institutional performance and their various dimensions.

The research reached a number of key findings summarized as follows:

1. Project management at the General Corporation for Roads and Bridges recorded a high overall mean. Quality management ranked first, followed by resource management in second place, time management in third, cost management in fourth, and risk management in fifth.

2. Institutional performance at the General Corporation for Roads and Bridges recorded a very high overall mean. The quality of services and outputs ranked first, followed by the effectiveness of goal achievement in second place and institutional efficiency in third.

In light of these findings, the researcher made the following recommendations:

1.Strengthening project management practices at the institutional level and transforming individual practices into binding policies based on a unified procedural manual.

2.Reviewing cost management policies and replacing rigid controls with a lean cost management approach.

3.Establishing a formal risk management system.

4.Balancing institutional efficiency with effectiveness, improving resource utilization, and reducing waste.

5.Focusing on the two most influential dimensions: quality and risk management.

The thesis defense was attended by faculty members, researchers, students, and interested participants as well as the researcher's colleagues and family members.