Dissertation (MA Public Administration)This study aimed to examine the role of people's participation as stake holders in the donor funded projects in school buildings projects in Iramba district. The specific objective of this study were to determining the factors influencing the sustainability of school building projects in Iramba after the donor withdrawing, Assess the impact of participation, and sense of ownership towards sustainability of school building projects in Iramba districts, Challenges facing the school building projects in Iramba districts. The study used cross-sectional survey method by interviewing, administering of questionnaire and observation as data collecting tools. The sample included 100 respondents and research design was qualitative research approach. The findings from this study showed that the Iramba Municipal understands the importance of people's participation in the donor funded projects. Also there are reasons for the failure to sustainability of the donor funded school building projects after the donors withdrawing from the projects. Most of the reasons for the failure can be removed if the people as the first stakeholders of the projects are getting involved actively in donor funded projects. From the finding obtained from the field work the study concluded that with people's participation as the stake holders in the donor funded projects most of the donor funded projects can be sustainable even if the donors have withdrawn from the projects. As well the study recommends that the donor funded projects in Iramba district is associated with many challenges such as poor participation of people, lack of skills, poor technology and low awareness of the people on donor funded projects. At the end the study recommended by making some suggestions on both the community of Iramba that the people of Iramba should take the donor funded projects as their belongingness. The Iramba Municipal Council should put some strategy so as to ensure that the community is full participating in Donor funded projects.