A recent article on kissflow.com entitled 9 Project Management Challenges and how to overcome them identifies the challenges most common to project managers.
This article focuses on Project Management from a generic perspective, but which of these challenges are particularly relevant to the development and humanitarian sectors?
The diversity and variety of development projects means some of these challenges will be more pertinent to your projects, while others will be more important in other settings.
In our experience, budgeting issues are often a huge challenge in development projects. Access to funding is a common obstacle in many of the projects which have seen.
Stakeholder engagement holds far-ranging connotations in international development. Whereas in other sectors, a lack of stakeholder engagement often refers to end users, people’s participation in development can be viewed as an end product in itself rather than simply a means to ensuring the right product or service is delivered.
Does scope creep affect ID and humanitarian projects as much as traditional engineering and product design projects? This is certainly possible, although, once again, the array of initiatives under the ID umbrella make it impossible to generalize.
How about your own projects? What are the important challenges you face during planning and implementation?