Developing monitoring indicators for urban micro contracts in South Asia
By: SOHAIL, M
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Contributor(s): MILES, D.W.J | COTTON, A.P.
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ArticlePublisher: 2002Subject(s): Planejamento Estratégico | Qualidade Total | Gestão de Projetos | ParceriaInternational Journal of Project Management 20, 8, p. 583-591Abstract: The growing empahis in many low-income countries on community-based infrastructure means that more programmes are being implemented through micro contracts. The advantages of this approach are that it encourages: participative negotiation of activities and speedier implementation; the use of local resources, skills and appropriate technology; and entrepreneurship in communities. For client organisations, however, large numbers of very small contracts are much harder to monitor, supervise and evaluate. This paper draws upon recent research in India. Pakistan and Sri Lanka to develop a `benchmarking framework' to study the time and cost performance of 162 small-scale contracts for urban infrastructure. The study found that cost were normally very close to target, but project duraction generally far exceeded the target. There is only a weak association between the cost and time growth
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The growing empahis in many low-income countries on community-based infrastructure means that more programmes are being implemented through micro contracts. The advantages of this approach are that it encourages: participative negotiation of activities and speedier implementation; the use of local resources, skills and appropriate technology; and entrepreneurship in communities. For client organisations, however, large numbers of very small contracts are much harder to monitor, supervise and evaluate. This paper draws upon recent research in India. Pakistan and Sri Lanka to develop a `benchmarking framework' to study the time and cost performance of 162 small-scale contracts for urban infrastructure. The study found that cost were normally very close to target, but project duraction generally far exceeded the target. There is only a weak association between the cost and time growth
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