<i>Special Issue</i>: Why Do Projects Fail in Africa?

Ika, Lavagnon A.; Saint‐Macary, Jan

doi:10.1080/15228916.2014.956635

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“…Focus on donor funding means that projects are designed more for donor interests and timelines, many times with little or no alignment to actual needs of producers or cultural and seasonal chats of farmers. This agrees with findings of FAO (2014) and Ika and Saint-Macary (2014) that agricultural projects within this architype are plagued with enormous design problem such as tight scheduling, underestimated costs, bad management and staffing, procurement difficulties, too many components to name a few.…”

Section: Assessment Of Existing Architypes I State-focused Architypesupporting

confidence: 92%

“…There has been recurrent failure to provide solutions (Witmer, 2018): A phenomenon attributable to treating smallholders as a homogeneous group, together with entrenched interests at the center (Fan et al, 2013;McCalla, 2013). Other problems include too tight scheduling, underestimated costs, bad management and staffing, procurement difficulties, too many components (Ika & Saint-Macary, 2014), and limited finance (UNIDO/CBN/BOI, 2010).Degrees of successes have been recorded with pilot projects, but with attendant cyclical gluts because excess food products fail to reach the markets and households (Otekunrin & Sawicka, 2019).Effective functional partnership is at the core of any successful aid harmonization and sustainable scaling-up of technologies that will come with measurable improvement on food security (Cooley and Howard, 2019).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Effective and Functional Partnership for Successful Upscaling of Technologies Across Agricultural Value Chains, to Feed Africa

Api¹

2020

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The African continent has a long history of sustainable agricultural development partnerships; all aimed at helping rural poor farmers produce more food for increased income and sustainable livelihood. Yet food insecurity remains endemic, and is expected to worsen as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. This is happening in the African continent where an estimated 60-75% of the total population is considered to be in the agricultural food production sector. Known partnership architypes in African agricultural development have only been successful in pilot projects, but have so far failed to achieve the goal of feeding Africa. This paper identifies and categorizes all existing actors in African agriculture into 5 partnership pillars and architypes. Then demonstrates that partnership architype is a critical determining factor in upscaling technologies in African agriculture. It found the Risksharing architype to have the highest 60% score on the functional partnership indicator index, compared to other architypes studied. Based on findings, this paper proposes a universal and functional partnership model, with contents and principles that will successfully upscale technologies: and that will transform African agricultural development programs, specifically the AfDB TAAT program to feed Africa.

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Section: Assessment Of Existing Architypes I State-focused Architypesupporting

confidence: 92%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Effective and Functional Partnership for Successful Upscaling of Technologies Across Agricultural Value Chains, to Feed Africa

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2020

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“…It is important to note that "mobile phone" and "mobile telephony" respectively relate to hardware and service provision. 3 Education, knowledge and access to accurate and timely information are also important to avoid the failure of investments in African business and development projects (Ika & Saint-Macary, 2014;Hashim, 2014;Ofori, 2014;Joseph et al, 2014). This investigation incorporates the three strands above by using educational quality as a policy variable in the role of mobile phones for inclusive development.…”

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Educational quality thresholds in the diffusion of knowledge with mobile phones for inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa

Asongu

Nwachukwu

2018

Technological Forecasting and Social Change

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The study investigates critical masses or thresholds of educational quality at which the diffusion of information with mobile phones enhances inclusive human development. The empirical evidence is based on simultaneity-robust Fixed Effects regressions with data from 49 Sub-Saharan African countries for the period 2000-2012. The following findings are established: (1) There are positive marginal and net effects on inclusive development from the interaction between mobile phones and educational quality, (2) Between 10 and 27 pupils per teacher is needed in primary education in order for mobile phones to enhance inclusive human development, (3) From a comparative dimension: (i) English Common law countries enjoy higher net effects compared to their French Civil law counterparts, (ii) positive net effects are more obvious in politically stable (vis-à-vis politically unstable) countries, (iii) positive net impacts are also more apparent in resource-poor (vis-à-vis resource-rich) countries, (iv) low income (vis-à-vis higher income) countries have a higher net effect on inclusive development, (v) landlocked (vis-à-vis unlandlocked) countries experience higher net effects and (iv) Islam-dominated countries have a slightly higher net impact compared to their Christian-oriented counterparts.

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“…These firms often possess capabilities and resources such as a low-cost base and cutting-edge technologies, which enable them to outclass their counterparts from developed markets when entering other emerging markets (Lall, 1983). Despite being situated in a continent dubbed "resource-rich" with an abundance of natural resources and commodities (Ika & Saint-Macary, 2014;Kaplinsky, McCormick & Morris, 2007), many African companies have not only failed to fully capitalise on the location advantage to capture domestic opportunities, but also lost out to Western and Asian rivals both on the African and global stages (Clark, 2014).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Why Are So Many African Companies Uncompetitive on the Global Stage? Insights from the Global Airline Industry

Amankwah‐Amoah

2018

Africa’s Competitiveness in the Global Economy

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This paper examines the question of why so many African firms are uncompetitive on the globalstage. An integrated framework of firm-level and external factors was developed. This paper focuses primarily on the global airline industry and offers an array of external factors including slow implementation of the Yamoussoukro Declaration and protection of state-owned airlines, which have historically distorted the nature of competition and hampered the exposure of many airlines to "genuine" or fair competition. When shielded from competition, such firms' ability to transition to the global stage and outwit rivals is hampered. Furthermore, the study indicates that internal factors such as limited economies of scale and poor quality of services have affected some of the firms' ability to compete. With the notable of exception of airlines such as Ethiopian Airlines, South African Airways and Kenya Airways, the preponderance of airlines have struggled to compete. These factors help to account for the fact that African airlines equate to only 20% of all air traffic on inter-African routes. The implications of the findings are examined.2

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Special Issue: Why Do Projects Fail in Africa?

Cited by 26 publications

References 17 publications

Effective and Functional Partnership for Successful Upscaling of Technologies Across Agricultural Value Chains, to Feed Africa

Effective and Functional Partnership for Successful Upscaling of Technologies Across Agricultural Value Chains, to Feed Africa

Educational quality thresholds in the diffusion of knowledge with mobile phones for inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa

Why Are So Many African Companies Uncompetitive on the Global Stage? Insights from the Global Airline Industry

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