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Developing monitoring indicators for urban micro contracts in South Asia
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posted on 2008-10-31, 16:37 authored by M. Sohail (Khan), D.W.J. Miles, Andrew CottonThe growing emphasis 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 costs were normally very close to target, but
project duration generally far exceeded the target. There is only a weak association between the cost
and time growth.
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SOHAIL, M., MILES, D.W.J. and COTTON, A.P., 2002. Developing monitoring indicators for urban micro contracts in South Asia. International Journal of Project Management, 20 (8), pp. 583-591 [doi:10.1016/S0263-7863(01)00081-3]Publisher
© ElsevierPublication date
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This article was published in the journal, International Journal of Project Management [© Elsevier] and the definitive version is available at: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/02637863ISSN
0263-7863Language
- en
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