The study determined the role of stakeholder communication and project performance. While the specific objectives of this research were determining how stakeholder’s communication is done in Indashyikirwa GBV prevention project; assessing the performance of project for the period of the study; and find out the relationship between communication stakeholder and performance of the project. Target population was 421 people comprised employees, and trained couples in Gatsibo District, while sample size was 206 of respondents selected using stratified and simple random sampling methods. The primary data was using questionnaires, interview, and observation while secondary was documentary review. The parametric and non-parametric tests were done where spearman test has been used to analyze the relationship or correlation between variables. Through regression analysis results confirmed that there is a significant, positive and very strong correlation between channels of communication and project performance of the Indashyikirwa GBV prevention project as Pearson correlation is .921** with the p-value is 0.000.The results indicated also a significant, positive and very strong correlation between the frequency of communication of stakeholders and project performance of the Indashyikirwa GBV prevention project as the Pearson correlation is .933** with the p-value is 0.000, which is less than both standard significance levels of 0.05 and 0.01.  There is a significant, positive and very strong correlation between the effectiveness of communication of stakeholders and project performance of the Indashyikirwa GBV prevention project as the Pearson correlation is .936**. There is a significant, positive and very strong correlation between beneficiaries’ feedback and project performance of the Indashyikirwa GBV prevention project as the Pearson correlation is .984** with the p-value is 0.000. There is a significant, positive and strong correlation between Beneficiaries’ engagement, and project performance of the Indashyikirwa GBV prevention project as the Pearson correlation is .611** with the p-value is 0.000.

Key words: stakeholder, communication, project performance