Success factors in donor funded projects: case study on internal estate roads

Abstract

Beneficiary participation is an important factor for donor funded projects. Since it gives many benefits and final product to the community, donors are always insisting the projects with beneficiary participation. However, for smooth execution of beneficiary participatory projects has to cross many hurdles for its successful completion. Identify those drawbacks and addressing them is necessary. The Raw data are collected through a questionnaire and analyse those according to the existing data from the donor funded executed project. The results show that there are many factors that affect the successful completion of beneficiary participatory projects. The findings have emphasis on more site visits by the management staff, budget to be suit to the site location and the conditions. Findings has extended to management staff travelling distances, vehicle allocations to staffs, payment procedure, meeting minutes to be distribute on time to site and also recommending to some team building and coordination programmes with management and beneficiary parties.