Sustainability of Social Development Projects in Zambia: A Critical Analysis of the Zambia Social Investment Fund (ZAMSIF) Development Project (PDF)

Research Paper (undergraduate) from the year 2012 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: A, ( Atlantic International University ) (School of Business and Economics), course: Project Planning and Management, language: English, abstract: The paper provides a critical analysis of a social development project in Zambia in terms of its sustainability after the cessation of donor or local financial support. Specifically, the paper focuses on the challenges experienced in the implementation of such a project and the measures devised for its sustainability. The Zambia Social Investment Fund (ZAMSIF) development project regarded as an all- embracing project with coverage of almost every aspect of a full -fledged social development project is used as the case study.

The study underscores a number of significant achievements of the ZAMSIF project, suggestive of the project's effectiveness as one single largest poverty reduction programme in Zambia. The project implementation process embraces upward and downward accountability with direct ownership and resource cost contribution into the project by most of the communities for effective implementation and sustainability. Some of the challenges encountered in the implementation process are elucidated in the paper.