Lack of appropriate level of beneficiary involvement during the project lifecycle may lead to mismatch between the project output and needs of beneficiaries. Therefore, involving beneficiaries in the project helps to assure that the Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) provide the right solution to needs of beneficiaries as well as sustaining project results. Although beneficiary involvement is useful, the challenge is to determine how and when to involve beneficiaries in the project.    The purpose of this study is to improve the process of managing beneficiary involvement in NGOs. To achieve this, a review of the existing literature was done to have an initial understanding of beneficiary involvement. During our literature review, we identified six progressive levels of involvement which include: information sharing, listening and learning, joint assessment, shared decision-making, collaboration and empowerment.  Based on this literature review, we suggested a framework for managing beneficiary involvement.   In addition, we conducted a multiple case study and collected data from five different cases through interviews. Our respondents were professionals with several years of experience in developing and implementing development projects which are aimed at improving the livelihood of vulnerable communities. Through the analysis of the empirical findings, we got new insights on how the process of beneficiary involvement is managed. We identified four additional levels of beneficiary involvement within the project cycle. These include incentive system, peer facilitators, group forming, and cost sharing. The study also reveals the factors that affect beneficiary involvement, such as cultural context and, donors’ influence and requirements. We also highlighted that the appropriate level of beneficiary involvement should be chosen depending on the project context. Regardless of these factors, the research findings show that beneficiary involvement creates a sense of ownership, enhances project outcome and is useful in sustaining a project’s results in the long term. Therefore, NGOs should endeavour to involve beneficiaries as much as possible to ensure that the projects being implemented are addressing community needs.

The current study investigates the mechanisms employed for analyzing and engaging stakeholders through the planning and implementation phases of the mobility management project Sustainable Travel in Umeå Region (Sweden). In alignment with researchers' epistemological and ontological assumptions, an abductive approach and the case study strategy were selected. The qualitative data collected through conducting interviews with the five project team members and through examining project's documentation were analyzed using the pattern matching technique and leading to the findings presented in detail in Chapter 4 and discussed in Chapter 5. The core finding of the study is a model of the use of mechanisms through the planning and implementation phases of a MM project. The planning phase of the project coincides with the stakeholders' analysis process, thus identifying, classifying, characterizing and a very complex process of designing the engagement strategy for citizens, which includes also deciding and starting implementing the strategy for organizations. The correspondent analysis and engagement mechanisms, developed by the project stakeholders‟ scholars for each of these stages, are mostly unwittingly used by the project team. Once the engagement strategy for citizens is decided, the implementation phase is initiated. The implementation phase is characterized by a blend between MM mechanisms and classic stakeholders' engagement mechanisms, which are constantly reassessed through project's lifecycle. In addition, the main challenges emerged in the process of stakeholders' engagement in this project are discussed, concluding that the lack of alignment between some of the regulations coming from the national and supranational level and the project's aim, combined with communication issues and the unwillingness of the targeted organization to interfere in the personal lives of their employees, are the elements that most endanger the success of the stakeholders' engagement process and implicitly of the MM project.

High project failure rates result in billions of wasted dollars each year. Project failure does not discriminate by type of project or the industry from which they originate. The purpose of this qualitative single case study was to explore strategies that leaders at a health care organization located in Pennsylvania use to manage projects successfully. This population was selected due to the health care organization's reputation for successful project completion. The conceptual framework for this study was Fiedler's contingency theory. Data were collected by conducting semistructured interviews with 9 project leaders and reviewing project documents provided by study participants. Interviews were transcribed, thick descriptions were obtained, and participants were engaged in member checking. The thematic data analysis process consisted of compiling and coding data, identifying patterns, and organizing themes into relevant categories, iteratively. Findings were organized into 4 thematic categories, which were, essential strategies, relationship management, best practices, and self-attunement. Findings from this study may contribute to positive social change if health care leaders can use the information to enhance their project leadership capabilities. When project managers are successful, the benefits cascade to health care organizations. Leaders of those health care organizations can ensure that important health and wellness services are provided and available to those who need them, fund performance improvement initiatives, resource quality programs, and offer innovative services to improve health outcomes for individuals and communities.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 Souza, Danillo Teixeira.pdf: 2113134 bytes, checksum: 131158397c3a594f5836171e36fedab0 (MD5) / Esta pesquisa tem como tema a avaliação ex post (ou pós-implementação) do Projeto Novo Siafi com base na satisfação dos usuários finais do sistema de informação desenvolvido por este projeto – o Novo Siafi, como vem sendo chamado –, buscando inserir tal avaliação no âmbito dos processos de Gerenciamento de Stakeholders (ou Gerenciamento das Partes Interessadas), matéria estabelecida pela quinta edição do guia Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), publicada em 2013, como uma das áreas de conhecimento de Gerenciamento de Projetos (GP). O GP, embora não se restrinja à Tecnologia da Informação (TI), é uma das áreas de atuação mais importantes da governança deste setor e, dentro do campo de conhecimentos associados à área, o Gerenciamento de Stakeholders tem sido considerado, atualmente, como uma das suas atividades mais importantes. O Projeto Novo Siafi, gerenciado pela Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional (STN) mediante contratação da empresa pública Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados (Serpro), visa a reconstrução de maneira gradual, em uma nova plataforma tecnológica, do Siafi Operacional – sistema estruturante desenvolvido pelo Governo Federal brasileiro, implantado em 1987, e que já fora adotado, inclusive, por outros países do mundo. Para empreender a avaliação ex post aqui pretendida, realizou-se uma pesquisa de levantamento ou survey dividida em duas etapas: a primeira para avaliar a satisfação dos usuários finais – com a aplicação de um instrumento disponível na literatura – e a segunda, como etapa complementar, com o intuito de verificar a percepção dos usuários finais quanto ao seu envolvimento no desenvolvimento do novo sistema. Os resultados permitiram concluir que, de maneira geral, os usuários, em relação ao sistema, se sentem indiferentes – considerando as duas metodologias adotadas para cálculo da satisfação: análise fatorial e média das respostas –, além de perceberem que não foram envolvidos no seu processo de desenvolvimento. No entanto, como constatado junto a gestor da STN que participou da pesquisa, houve, de fato, o envolvimento dos usuários na construção do Novo Siafi, que ocorreu diretamente, na fase de homologação do sistema e indiretamente, por meio das pesquisas de satisfação sobre o Siafi Operacional, que foram realizadas no período de 1993 a 2009, gerando, como consequência, a implementação de diversas melhorias naquele sistema, que vieram a ser utilizadas para a construção da nova plataforma tecnológica. A presente pesquisa apontou ainda pontos positivos e negativos na visão dos usuários do sistema, evidenciando oportunidades de melhoria. Assim, conclui-se que o feedback dos usuários, que nessa pesquisa fora colhido com auxílio dos dois questionários aplicados, pode ser adotado na efetivação dos processos de Gerenciamento de Stakeholders do Projeto Novo Siafi, por meio do diálogo contínuo entre as partes interessadas, de modo a contribuir para a melhoria do projeto. / This research has as subject the ex post (or post-implementation) evaluation of the Novo Siafi Project based on the satisfaction of end users of the information system developed by this project – the Novo Siafi, as it is currently named – seeking to insert this assessment in the scope of the processes related to Project Stakeholder Management, a field established by the fifth edition of the Project Management Body of Knowledge Guide (PMBOK), published in 2013, as one of the knowledge areas of Project Management (PM). PM, although not restricted to Information Technology (IT), is one of the most important areas of governance in this sector and, within the field of knowledge associated with the area, Project Stakeholder Management has been considered, nowadays, as one of its most important activities. The Novo Siafi Project, managed by Secretaria do Tesouro Nacional (STN) through the hiring of the public company Serviço Federal de Processamento de Dados (Serpro), aims to rebuild gradually, in a new technology platform, the Siafi Operacional – a structuring system developed by Brazilian Federal Government, implanted in 1987, and that has already been adopted by other countries. To undertake the ex post evaluation here intended, a divided survey was conducted in two stages: the first to assess the satisfaction of end users – through the application of an instrument available in the literature – and the second, as a stage further, in order to verify the perception of end users and their involvement in the development of the new system. The results showed that, in general, users feel indifferent with regard the system – considering the results of the both methodologies adopted to calculate the average satisfaction level: the factor analysis and the average responses – as well as they realize that they were not involved in the system development process. However, as answered by a STN manager who participate in this research, there was, in fact, the users involvement in Novo Siafi development, which occurred directly in the system homologation phase, and indirectly, through satisfaction surveys about Siafi Operacional, which were carried out in the 1993-2009 period, bringing, as a result, the implementation of several improvements in this system, which were used for the construction of the new technological platform. This research also pointed out strengths and weaknesses of the system in the view of its users, showing improvement opportunities. Thus, one can conclude that the feedback from users, which in this study was collected with the help of both applied questionnaires, can be adopted in the execution of the Project Stakeholder Management processes of the Novo Siafi Project, through continuous dialogue between stakeholders, in order to contribute to promote improvements in the project.