WHY DO PROJECTS FAIL TO ACHIEVE ANY SIGNIFICANT RESULTS

There are a number of reasons for this Firstly, the project may fail to engage the people it is trying to help and may not achieve the desired outcomes This lack of engagement is at the heart of many projects and can be attributed to a number of factors including a lack of ownership, a lack of trust, a lack of commitment, a lack of engagement and a lack of empathy They also often have a lack of clarity over who they are trying to help and why they are doing it Many projects are often far too complex to deliver and are so large scale that they can overwhelm the communities they are trying to help A lack of understanding of the culture of the people they are trying to help is also a major problem A good example of this is a project to help the street children in South America The project was very well meaning and the social workers had done their homework and tried to understand the culture of the people they were working with They had also tried to understand why the children were on the streets and had tried to understand what it was like to be on the streets They had also tried to understand how the children lived and what their daily lives were like However, they hadn’t tried to understand how the children felt about being on the streets They hadn’t tried to understand how the children felt about being homeless This was a fundamental flaw and was the major factor in why their work never really achieved any significant results The social workers had not tried to understand how the children felt about being on the streets They had not tried to understand how the children felt about being homeless They didn’€™t understand how the children felt about the fact that they had to live on the streets and the fact that they had no means of support They also didn’t understand how the children felt about the fact that they had no choice but to live on the streets The project failed.