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GERMANY'S DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION WITH AFRICA Projects in Development Cooperation with the Example of the Vocational Education and Training Project (BINA) between the Beruflichen Fortbildungszentren der Bayerischen Wirtschaft gGmbH (bfz) and the Don Bosco Youth Network West Africa in Ghana
REINHARDT, Anna
The implementation of development projects is a common way in development cooperation to improve the situation of developing countries. Since project management processes are often complicated, the aim of this Master's thesis is to answer how a successful implementation of projects in the field of development cooperation could look like. For this purpose, the following research question is posed: How can development projects be successfully implemented? To answer the research question, qualitative research was conducted using semi-structured guideline-based expert interviews. The qualitative study showed that there are a number of factors that contribute to successful project implementation. At the same time, it was found that development projects are facing challenges. This can be the duration of a project, the recognition of an implementing organisation, or accessibility of the project location. Based on a vocational education and training project in Ghana - the BINA-project - promising approaches for a successful project implementation could be identified that can be transferred to other development projects. It became evident, for instance, that a good concept is an important approach. In addition, tasks and responsibilities should be clearly divided. There are also certain character traits that project managers should possess. Here, a high level of motivation or a good work attitude can be mentioned, just to name a few. Further research of projects in development cooperation could contribute to an improvement in project implementation and thus increase the efficiency of development projects in the long term - not only within the development cooperation between Germany and the African continent but also for development cooperation in general.
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Der Master "Regionale und Europäische Projektentwicklung" als internationales und interkulturelles Projekt: Eine Analyse der mehrsprachigen, interkulturellen Projektkommunikation per E-Mail.
KLEIN, Susanne
At the Westsächsische Hochschule Zwickau, the trinational master program Regional and Eu-ropean Project Management was successfully established in cooperation with the Université de Bretagne Sud (France) and the Jihočeská Univerzita v Českých Budějovi?cích (Czech Re-public). The cooperation of all partners started in 2012. The international project group com-municated primarily via e-mail. With the start of the project in 2012 all data of e-mail commu-nication of the cooperation partners was stored. This collection of e-mails is an authentic and also specific communication material representing a successful project. It is specific for the reason that it is a multilingual communication on the one hand; on the other hand, the data backup over several years provides the possibility to analyze the communications in their de-velopment and sequentiality. With this material, a central topic of project management can be investigated: the project communication. In project management it has been documented sev-eral times that project communication plays a key role in the project's success. On the basis of the complex material described above, I will examine in this analysis the following question: What makes multilingual and intercultural project communication by e-mail successful? After embedding the research subject into the theoretical context, the project work and project control are analyzed in the context of a qualitative analysis. Based on eleven, primarily induc-tive developed analysis categories; four success-promising features can be worked out. These are the combination of e-mail communication with other forms of communication; the prac-ticed multilingualism; the developed group-identity and the changing leadership responsibility within the project group.
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