Village Rhapsody: Why project managers fail in Zimbabwe

📅 Published: August 16, 2025

📰 Source: thestandard

Curated by AllZimNews.com

At the heart of all this is failure of monitoring and evaluation systems for national projects.

The Zimbabwe Power Company (ZPC) paid over US$5 million to Wicknel Chivayo for the Gwanda solar project and nothing has been done to date but life goes on.

As the world moves forward, a lot of changes take place in all spheres of the economy, especially the way of doing business.

Due to technology and some free information from Google, competition is now stiff.

There are new ideas that come on a single day, and this is why some project managers fail to deliver.

The contemporary world is characterised by rapid changes with some causing a lot of disruption globally.

Project managers should invest in project risk management and adapt to the new environments to successfully deliver desired goals as they face continuous changes in the developing world.

Successful project managers should ensure all the stakeholders have an appreciation of what a project is.

Some people tend to use “project and programme” interchangeably.

These two terms dovetail, but have a different meaning despite that they are closely related.

A project is any development initiative that has the stipulated time frame and stages in which monitoring and evaluation occurs at every step.

But a programme like command agriculture is a continuous process with no specified time frame. 🔗

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