UNE ANALYSE DE LA PERCEPTION DES COORDONNATEURS DE PROJETS DE DÉVELOPPEMENT EN AFRIQUE

Amadou Diallo and Denis Thuillier
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Amadou Diallo: École des Sciences de la Gestion de l'Université du Québec à Montréal
Denis Thuillier: École des Sciences de la Gestion de l'Université du Québec à Montréal

Region et Developpement, 2005, vol. 22, 193-218

Abstract: Success factors and success criteria on which projects are evaluated have been discussed widely in literature. The perception of coordinators of international development projects has not been examined thus far, especially in Africa. This paper characterizes the dimensions of success (and their hierarchy) for such projects as perceived by African project coordinators using data collected by questionnaires completed by project coordinators of aid and development projects in Africa south of the Sahara. Our research also determines, from the perspective of the project coordinators, the hierarchy of the dimensions of the principal stakeholders (task managers in the international aid agencies, local officials, project team, steering committee, beneficiaries, etc.). The results confirm the importance of classical dimensions (time, cost, quality) but paradoxically the impact of the projects is rated in last position for the coordinator. The role played by implicit dimensions related to the political environment of the international development community features prominently in the perception of the successfulness of the project, as the project coordinator must satisfy more than one "client" in such projects financed by multilateral institutions.

Keywords: ÉVALUATION DES PROJETS; CRITÈRES; DIMENSIONS; DÉVELOPPEMENT; AIDE INTERNATIONALE; BANQUE MONDIALE; AFRIQUE; MANAGER DE PROJET (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O10 O19 O22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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