**4. Participants' views on the risk factors that confront project execution**

The rationale behind this question was to establish if public infrastructure construction projects are confronted with risk factors. **Table 3** shows that the risk factors that usually confront projects are poor contract management, which 24 participants mentioned, representing 86%, 18 representing 64% of the participants, identified poor contractor performance as a critical risk factor confronting their projects. Again 12 participants, representing 43%, mentioned community disruptions as a significant project risk in the province.

Other project risk factors cited by the participants are political interference (cited by 39%), lack of technical skills (cited by 32%), payment delays and unforeseen events, mentioned by 29% of the participants, respectively. Likewise, 25% and 18% mentioned material availability and corruption as risk factors, respectively. It can be deduced that participants are updated with risk issues affecting their project by looking at the similar issues that different participants cited.


#### **Table 3.**

*The risk factors that usually confront projects.*
