Stakeholders in Urban Rehabilitation

Dear All,

The pulling together of resources in project design and implementation is very fashionable and has been proven to be effective.

If the intervention will succeed, then all hand must be on deck as ‘people can only become genuinely committed to projects and programmes which are derived from their needs, which advance their interest, which take into consideration their capacities, limitations and constraints and which incorporate their participation in problem definition, project determination and design in choice of modalities or strategies of programme implementation and in the evaluation of the past and present effort’, (Taiwo, D.O, 1995). At this junction, I am bold to suggest that Taiwo’s submission above should be considered by very development practitioner as one of the basic rules of engagement in designing of intervention in the context of Urban Rehabilitation Project.

Understanding the SWOT analysis of stakeholders and actors that we will be dealing with is too important to our study and the identification and pulling together of these resources (stakeholders) must be done now to form the effective partnerships required.

I rest my case.....................

OAB