Megaprojects—mega failures? The politics of aspiration and …

This paper takes cases from Kenya to investigate the political rationality and performance of megaprojects in the context of national development. Kenya is a particularly telling example, since it is the country with the highest concentration of large infrastructure projects in East Africa (Enns 2017). In line with a neoliberal, investor ...

(PDF) Forgotten Projects in Zimbabwe: Why Developmental Mega Projects

Project Management Journal, 2012. This article discusses international development (ID) projects and project management problems within ID in Africa and suggests they may fall into one or more of four main traps: the one-size-fits-all technical trap, the accountability-for-results trap, the lack-of-project-management-capacity trap, and the cultural trap.

OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN THE MINI GRID …

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Approaches to project management in Africa: implications …

Using Africa as a case study, this paper explores the applicability of project management approaches, as represented in the most widely distributed and accepted knowledge and practice guides (PMBOK ® Guide, APMBoK (4th edition) and Australian National Competency Standards for Project Management) to projects in developing and emerging …

WHY MANY PROJECTS IN AFRICA FAIL TO …

The focus of this paper is the exploration of why many projects in Africa failed to complete. That is to investigate the causes that lead to the failure of deliverables obtained after the successful completion of projects. ... (and in some cases …

Climate litigation in Africa: Where to from here?

One of the more well-known cases I worked on is the Thabametsi case brought on behalf of Earthlife Africa, where the court found that a climate change assessment is a critical component of an EIA, especially for coal fired power projects. I left the CER in 2023, and have since been working more regionally, supporting lawyers in their legal ...

MAKING A BUSINESS CASE FOR SUSTAINABLE DAIRY …

total dairy farmers in South Africa, they contribute 10% of the milk produced (Table 1). When considering the main pasture-based dairy producing regions in South Africa (the EC and KZN), the farms included in the case study represent 18% of this milk production. Most of the farms are in the EC (55) and represent 30% of the milk production in ...

Development, Deposits, And Debts: A Decade of BRI in Africa

This can be seen through three case studies: Ethiopia, Kenya, and Zambia. Ethiopia. With China's need to gain a strategic presence in maritime trade along East Africa, and landlocked Ethiopia's need to access the sea, the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway has been one of the BRI's flagship projects.

Inclusivity insights: two urban development projects in Johannesburg

Johannesburg, which is South Africa's largest city and economic center, is still influenced by patterns of inequality of the past. Although spatial transformation has been rapid since 1994, spatial divisions along class lines are still prevalent long after the apartheid era. This is despite the fact that societal values such as inclusivity, spatial justice and equal access to …

Gautrain Rapid Rail Link

The case study was drafted based primarily on inputs received from the Gautrain Management Agency (GMA) (the Procuring Authority). The Gautrain Rapid Rail Link project is an 80km rail project developed to ease traffic congestion and facilitate travel in the Johannesburg-Pretoria corridor in South Africa.

Sustainable Buildings and Construction Case Studies

The sustainable buildings and construction programme developed 35 case studies on projects being implemented in Africa, including the impacts, replicability and scalability, and …

FACT SHEET: Partnership for Global Infrastructure and …

The anchor rail line of the second phase of the Lobito Trans-Africa Corridor, the new Zambia-Lobito rail project, was launched in October 2023, with the AFC as the lead project …

AFFORDABLE HOUSING PRODUCTION IN AFRICA

The Centre for Affordable Housing Finance in Africa (CAHF) has been operating as an independent think tank in South Africa since May 2014, pursuing its mission of making Africa's housing finance markets work. CAHF's work extends across the continent, and it is supported by and collaborates with a range of funders and partners. CAHF brings

Special Issue : Why Do Projects Fail in Africa? | Request PDF

Indeed, projectification is fundamental for Africa's project management development, yet weak institutional capacity (Ika 2012;Ika et al. 2010) and the absence of well-organised entrepreneurial ...

AGRA Project helps rural farmers in Africa to improve their …

With 25% of the world's arable land, Africa's agricultural sector is poised for growth if adequate measures are swiftly taken by its leaders. A recent report by FAO (2016) on food insecurity reveals that "153 million individuals, about 26 percent of the population above 15 years of age in sub-Saharan Africa, suffered from severe food insecurity in 2014/15". This is a challenge that ...

Mega Construction Projects in South Africa: Cultural Complexity

The possibility of cultural disruptions in implementing Mega Construction Projects (MCPs) in South Africa using Medupi and Kusile coal plant projects as cases for this study was explored with the ...

Connecting the dots – the case for transmission PPPs in Africa

Transmission and interconnection projects in sub-Saharan Africa have historically been procured directly by governments, through sovereign debt or concessional funding structures. With the demand for these projects increasing, and with the additional pressures on government finances exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is an appropriate ...

Causes and Effects of Delay on African …

of construction projects in regional w ays East Africa leads the continent and Southe rn Africa, North Africa, West Africa, and Central Africa holds fro m 2 nd

Tuberculosis in the WHO African Region: 2023 progress …

resistant TB cases even larger. An added challenge is the identification of TB cases among children. Increased measures are required to improve detection, bacterial confirmation, and treatment of paediatric TB, reflected in the 322 000 children and young adolescents (aged 0-15 years) making up one-third of cases among children under 15 worldwide.

ECOSYSTEM-BASED ADAPTATION (EBA) in SOUTH …

6 TUDY - Ecosystem-based Adaptation in South Africa The City of Cape Town (CCT) is the legislative capital of South Africa and is home to approximately 3.8 million people. The city is the economic hub of the Western Cape province, South Africa's second main economic centre and Africa's third main economic hub city.

AfricaMaVal – EU-Africa Partnerships on sustainable Raw …

Securing the access to raw materials represents a critical issue for the European ambition to deliver the Green Deal and perform the energy and digital twin transition. AfricaMaVal aims to build an EU and Africa business networking on the whole CRM value chains.. AfricaMaVal is a 42-month project gathering 18 partners from 11 countries.It is coordinated by BRGM, the French …

Government project failure in developing countries: A …

PDF | On Mar 27, 2020, King Matthew Eja and others published Government project failure in developing countries: A review with particular reference to Nigeria | Find, read and cite all the ...

Successful development in Africa : case studies of projects, …

This book consists of seven case studies that differ in various dimensions, as well as in their country settings. Four of the case studies analyze the following .

Impact of Community Engagement on Public Construction Projects -- Case …

PDF | On Sep 1, 2017, B.D.C. Rathenam and others published Impact of Community Engagement on Public Construction Projects -- Case Study of Hammanskraal Pedestrian Bridge, City of Tshwane, South ...

Urban Lab Rwanda: Case Studies

The case studies are drawn from Kenya, South Africa, Nepal, Ethiopia, Namibia Mozambique and Rwanda. Click on the icons to down load the case studies. Case study 1: Incremental housing & group savings scheme – Semba Motto Resettlement Project, in Nairobi, Kenya. Case study 2: Small scale landlord financing – Letshego Kenya Ltd, Kenya

AI for Africa: Use cases delivering impact

Box 4 Use case deep dive: Precision agriculture Box 5 Use case deep dive: Food security forecasting Box 6 Use case deep dive: Energy access and demand assessment Box 7 Use case deep dive: Biodiversity monitoring Box 8 UN's human rights-centred approach to the ethics of AI AI for Africa: Use cases delivering impact 2 / 76

Causes of failure and abandonment of projects and …

In preparing this write-up, research has been carried out, on some African countries, on some failed and abandoned project deliverables since the objective is to discover the causes of …

PPPs in Sub-Saharan Africa: Case Studies for Policymakers

Document Summary: The 10 cases that are the subject of this study are intended to give public-sector policymakers in sub-Saharan Africa an insight into the many practical policy issues that arise in real-world PPP projects.

Sustainability in Developing Countries: Case Sub-Saharan Africa …

After a failed tree planting project in the 1980s, the Turkana project in Kenya, only a few years later in 1995, Norwegian and Finnish aid organizations, private investment, and Green Resources AS started another tree planting project in Sub-Saharan Africa including among others Mozambique, Tanzania, and Uganda (Lyons & Westoby, 2013). Until ...

Case Study | Project Pipeline

Identify construction & infrastructure project opportunities in Africa. Track projects, contact key participants, monitor competitors, and win new contracts.

Open Genomics and Privacy: New Case Law in South Africa …

As in other countries, South Africa's 110,000 Genomes Project introduces numerous legal and ethical challenges, particularly surrounding issues of privacy, data sovereignty, ownership, access, and benefit-sharing. ... In this case, Mr. Botha disclosed certain personal facts about himself on social media, and the Court found that, because of ...

Monitoring and Evaluation in the Public Sector: A Case Study …

These research emperically investigated and reviwed the current project monitoring mechanisms within the Safety and Security SETA (SASSETA) with the view of improving project implementation and good governance.To achieve this goal, SASSETA as one of the 21 SETAs that were established as part of the goverment's HRDSSA1 strategy was selected to ...