ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates how projects are chosen, funded, implemented, and managed. It explores the characteristics of different types of projects as well as the attitudes of the general public toward self-help community projects. The problems with the funding methods for self-help projects are numerous. The Committee obtains permission from the District Community Development Office to collect funds for the project; it opens a bank account in the name of the project. Cattle dips are illustrative of a simple type of project which is economically productive for village people. The water projects in Weithaga and Kyeni are massive projects undertaken by the Ministry of Water Development. The Ministry of Health has involved itself very little in planning and advising local communities on health facilities. Local residents are very much aware of the quality of their primary school, and for purposes of judging its effectiveness they have a useful measure: the Certificate of Primary Education.
