What is it about?
Success stories in aid sponsored development projects provide innovative options to deal with social problems. The significance of success stories differs with stakeholders as per their needs and expectations. But, while writing success stories it is important to analyze various events and correlating them with the goal and objectives of the programme. Development sector follows specific steps to write success stories but there are some important requirements to fulfil these steps, which include process documentation, subject selection, well defining of key indicators, knowledge of research, writing skills and ethical approach. Poor process documentation, differences in the interests of stakeholders, credit seeking behaviour, job hopping in the development sector and lack of expertise are major challenges which affect the quality of documentation of success stories. Completeness of any success story lies in the fact that it has elements to come out from a pilot into a full-fledged programme.
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Why is it important?
The article is important as it helps reader to understand that how the good work if documented can be useful for different people. So whenever we write something we must know our target audience and how our writing can increase the number of audience. In that way our work would become relevant to more people.
Perspectives
In my perspective the article is tells that the one should not undermine any effort of bringing change in development sector because small efforts can make large impact. Second, one should understand that writing is a skill and organisations should not underestimate or compromise in highlighting the work. There is lot of scope in writing about the development projects but it also need better understanding of our work.
Ambey Srivastava
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This page is a summary of: Documenting ‘Success’ in Social Development Projects, Journal of Health Management, March 2017, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0972063416682547.
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