The Strategic Management of Development Programmes

The purpose of this paper is to report the findings of an international study of the managerial and institutional interventions associated with six relatively successful development programmes selected from different parts of the Third World (1). The important role played by managerial/organisational variables in project/programme performance has all along been recognised by development planners and policy makers, though this has been a neglected area of observation and study (2). As a result, the basic understanding of how these variables operate and interact in the public context and