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Abstract
This research focuses on understanding the impact of project managers’ self-awareness emotional intelligence, consists of emotional self-awareness, accurate self-assessment, and self-confidence on project success factors. These factors are attributed to satisfying beneficiaries, designing and planning, schedule compliance, monitoring and evaluation and feedback. Relying on responses from 300 international development project workers in Ghana, multiple regression analysis performed on the data collected revealed a statistically significant impact of international development project managers’ self-awareness on project success factors attributed to satisfying beneficiaries, designing and planning, schedule compliance, monitoring and evaluation, and feedback. The study further revealed that leadership self-confident constitutes the most significant predictor to project success, whilst self-accuracy that is driven by schedule compliance accounts for the highest contribution to international development project success.