Solid management and coordination is needed. The program lacked an adequate number of managers to oversee the trainings. This stems from the lack of funding, and the lack of an assured contract beyond a period of six months. The amount of travel required by professional organization managers and the obvious lack of job security (noted by the lack of contract security and Morocco’s high propensity to unemployment) transferred into very few incentives for people to perform this job function. Additionally, the management and coordination of the program implementers were very weak. The employees who were placed in the field complained of little feedback from those located at headquarters. Key informant interviews revealed that poor communication between UNOPS and Morocco’s Center of Labor and the Provincial Director of Agriculture created tensions at the management level. While improved budget allocation may improve some of the financial incentives for managers, better management of the program’s implementers would pose less risk to the project’s implementation.
Lesson Learned