The Factors Affecting Poverty Alleviation Projects in Developing Economies : Urban Poverty Reduction Project (UPRP) by the Social Investment Fund Organisation, Ghana

Abstract

The issue of poverty has been given a lot of attention over the past few years, and yet it seems like very little has been done to curb it. According to Jeffrey D. Sachs, the best antidote for poverty will be to first help the extreme poor out of absolute poverty, this is clearly expressed in one of his says, "The key to ending extreme poverty is to enable the poorest of the poor to get their foot on the ladder of development…They lack the minimum amount of capital necessary to get a foothold, and therefore need a boost up to the first rung."

The primary aim of this thesis is to analyze the effectiveness and ineffectiveness of the present situation of poverty alleviation projects in developing countries, by taking into account the various activities of the Social investment fund during the implementation of the urban poverty reduction project in Ghana. Theories on project management as well as developmental issues on poverty will be discussed to prove that the failure of projects in developing nations is not only caused by the obvious effect of bureaucracy and corruption, but can also be caused by using the wrong project management tools which could alter the success stories of poverty alleviation projects in the long run.