Partnership and Participation and Results-Based Management

Project Management
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Question One
Introduction
Project management is an intricate process as it involves quite a number of members and stakeholders. This means that most of the time the decisions that have to be made, must include the insights from some of the members that have vested interests in what the project can achieve for them. The community where the project is to be established play a vital role. This means that the project managers have to work with the community to ensure smooth implementation. Where the community does not feel that they have been included in the project in a way that they would fully benefit from the same, there is bound to be some element of conflict. This further complicates the completion of the project and reduces the chances of achieving the objectives of the project. As such, one of the best approaches is covered through partnership and participation. Project managers have the liberty of choosing what level of involvement that community is engaged at (Work, 2016). However, it is also crucial to note that, in some of the cases depending on the objectives and the general dynamics of the agreement between the stakeholders, a project manager may choose between the two. In the case of partnership, the project may be one that is geared towards ensuring that the community is deeply involved and may have to manage some of the elements of the implementation process and the fact that, the community may at one time be handed the operational aspect of the project to manage. Some of this aspect tend to be driven in large part by politics than they are by productivity. With the result based management all the players get their chance to deliver on the various strategic goals of a project (Work, 2016). This can be a healthy approach and one that gives a project the much needed interventions relative to resources and the general element of cohesiveness with all the stakeholders involved. This paper offers some of the highlights with reference to participation, partnership and insights into the elements of results based management and how they influence projects management.
Partnership and participation
To understand partnerships, it important to evaluate the relationship that exists between Canada and the civil society (Cartier & Quebec, 2016). The anti-apartheid movements saw a lot of partnerships with reference to the achievements that were achieved in the 60s and the 70s. Where the civil society made invaluable contributions. Projects tend to have quite a number of dimensions that have to be considered either from the inception, implementation and even hand over processes. A community project for example with have effects on quite a number of persons and in varied ways.
Partnership
Where the government has to work with the civil society, there is an element of partnership. Partnership is basically the element of working together (Cartier & Quebec, 2016). There are however some principles that are a measure of a good partnership, such as shared values, trust, respect, reciprocity, self-criticism, risk taking, continuity, responsiveness and honesty. This means that most of the roles are shared between the project management teams and the commun...