Project Management for Development in Africa: Why Projects are Failing and What Can be Done about It
By Lavagnon A. Ika. 2012
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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management
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Citations in the corpus
- Adoption of project management practices: The impact on international development projects of non-governmental organizations (2015, unknown): “As a consequence, beneficiaries are often not included in the project design phases leading to fatal errors in the execution of the project (Ika, 2012).”
- Success conditions for international development capacity building projects (2017, background): “In ID projects, there are the funding agencies, who pay for (through loans or grants) but do not receive project deliverables, there are the implementing agencies who are involved in project delivery, and the target beneficiaries, who expect some benefit from them (Hirschman, 1967; Ika, 2012; Ika an”
- Learning from international development projects: Blending Critical Project Studies and Critical Development Studies (2014, background): “They are typically not-for-profit, social and political undertakings (Diallo and Thuillier, 2004; Khang and Moe, 2008) and they fit into programmes, strategies and policies such as the recipient country Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) (European commission, 2007; Ika, 2012).”