Agricultural Project Management: Monitoring and Control of Implementation - Hardcover

Smith, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0853342822 ISBN 13: 9780853342823

Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1984

Synopsis

I first became interested in the methods of planning the sequence and timing of jobs on large-scale development projects, as a field officer involved in planning and implementing mechanised farming schemes in Uganda in the mid-sixties. This interest was reinforced by experience of agro-industrial projects in both Nigeria and Iran, when it became obvious that the lax traditional methods of both planning and controll- ing the implementation of agricultural and other rural development projects were very ineffective compared with those already in use in other disciplines. An extended spell as Resident Adviser on a World Bank project to strengthen planning and project management services in the agricultural sector in Sind Province, Pakistan, stimulated this interest further, and gave opportunities to develop the use of improved methods on some very complex schemes. This book summarises the experience gained in adapting critical path methods, well established in other fields, to Third World development projects, with their peculiar problems. It would not have been possible to reach this point without the help and stimulation of discussions with a large number of colleagues, includ- ing John Joyce (then of Hunting Technical Services), Hatsuya Azumi (World Bank), and-particularly-Zaffar Sohrwardy and Akhtar Ali of Aarkays Associates in Karachi, during our work together. My thanks are also due to Yasin Mohammed, who typed most of the original draft; Anwar Mohammed and Irene Mills for final typing; and to my wife, Jill, for drawing the original figures.

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Very clean and tight apart from previous owners named in ink on the back of the board and also to the title page. Hardly looks used otherwise. Clean hardboard's. No wrapper, unsure if ever there was one.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 1984
• ISBN 10: 0853342822
• ISBN 13: 9780853342823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 190