Preliminary Feasibility for Public Research & Development Projects explains how to evaluate R&D business by exploring the five key features of policy implication, policy improvement, preliminary feasibility study, R&D evaluation, and R&D strategy and will help develop strategic measures for R&D preliminary feasibility studies.
This book presents a set of tools that will aid in deciding whether a project should go ahead, be improved, or abandoned altogether by pinpointing its vulnerabilities. It offers a review of project feasibility analysis, and more critically, psychodynamic aspects that are often neglected, including how stakeholders interact. It provides a complement to the common techniques used for analyzing technical, financial, and marketing feasibility. The goal is to identify "hidden truths" and eliminate those gray areas that jeopardize the success of a given project. The focus is on uncovering points of vulnerabilities in four key aspects of a project: People, Power, Processes, and Plan.
Jackson G. Majura graduated with a BSc (Hons) degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Dar es Salaam in the beginning of 1980. Since then, he has worked in various senior positions in the transport, wood processing, cement, and soda ash industries in Tanzania, South Africa, and Botswana. He is a professionally registered engineer with the Engineers Registration Board (ERB), Tanzania. As part of his Executive Development Program, he has gone through a wide range of comprehensive honing programs in project analysis and management, finance, marketing, and strategic management, at home and abroad. During his career, he has worked extensively in projects, engineering maintenance, and plant management. He has successfully initiated and steered several greenfield projects, from feasibility study to final implementation and handing over. After taking an early retirement at the end of 2011, he cofounded JSC Global Services Co. Ltd. One of its core businesses is the preparation of feasibility studies for small to medium enterprises (SME) projects for entrepreneurs. The company has completed several bankable feasibility studies for SMEs in agro-processing, municipal waste-to-energy, building materials, dairy and fish farming, waste plastic recycling, bottled water, and many more. A comprehensive list can be found at the company’s website: [email protected].
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This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Before new interventions are released into disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in field trials'. These may be complex and expensive undertakings, requiring the follow-up of hundreds, or thousands, of individuals, often for long periods. Descriptions of the detailed procedures and methods used in the trials that have been conducted have rarely been published. A consequence of this, individuals planning such trials have few guidelines available and little access to knowledge accumulated previously, other than their own. In this manual, practical issues in trial design and conduct are discussed fully and in sufficient detail, that Field Trials of Health Interventions may be used as a toolbox' by field investigators. It has been compiled by an international group of over 30 authors with direct experience in the design, conduct, and analysis of field trials in low and middle income countries and is based on their accumulated knowledge and experience. Available as an open access book via Oxford Medicine Online, this new edition is a comprehensive revision, incorporating the new developments that have taken place in recent years with respect to trials, including seven new chapters on subjects ranging from trial governance, and preliminary studies to pilot testing.
