Analysis of Success and Failure Factors of Organizational and Municipal Watershed Management Projects in the Citadelle, Sans-Souci, Ramiers National Historic Park over the Last Decade

The thesis asks how management and monitoring tools contribute to the success of watershed management and protection projects in the park and how failure factors can be reduced. It reviews the literature on project success and failure and uses a mixed method with direct observation, self-enumeration surveys and interviewer-assisted questionnaires, applied to two samples: project managers and project beneficiaries.

The results identify stakeholder satisfaction and a socioeconomic development approach for farms and households as the two main success factors. New failure factors include free-range grazing, burning practices, illicit extraction of rock, projects on farms under indirect tenure, rainfall dependence of agroforestry projects, treating stakeholder participation as a means of carrying out decisions taken without them, and low use of the project management tools. The thesis proposes a model of success and failure factors that managers can adapt.