Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Volume 34, Issue 4, Pages 643-659Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijproman.2016.02.006
Keywords
Community driven development; Critical success factors; International development projects; Gemidiriya; Sri Lanka
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- Australian Government
- World Bank, Colombo office
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Despite significant investments, community-driven development (CDD) projects have yielded mixed successes in different countries and localities, underscoring the need to improve the project model. Recognising the importance of critical success factors (CSFs) in this exercise from different stakeholders' perspectives and at a project-level 'micro' view, this study identifies the CSFs of the Gemidiriya CDD project of Sri Lanka from a community perspective. Questionnaires were administered to beneficiary community members and community project managers at villages to assess the importance of various project model features and linkages with overall project success. Factor analysis identified three critical success factors: enabling community environment, measurable project management outcomes by village organization and community project management engagement. Project managers should view CSFs from an impact-on-ground-orientation rather than a task-orientation. Furthermore, the beneficiaries who were also involved in the project execution may have a greater tendency to assign a high weight on the impact. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. APM and IPMA. All rights reserved.
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