Dependency on another donor or country intervention should not be a fatal flaw to project success as there is a risk that the complementing effort will not be completed. Projects assume a risk when they are built around assumptions about necessary outside interventions that will take place. The Property Rights Project depended on another donor to complete their investment in the cadastral office’s National Land Information System which could then be linked with the electronic Property Registry System (ePRS) and create a seamless process between the cadaster and registry. In the end there was no link as the other project was not completed. The cadaster remained unlinked to ePRS and related issues around consistency of land records remained. This constrained a complete streamlining of operations and the effectiveness of the land administration system. During project planning, it is important to explicitly discuss project pathways for outcomes with and without these additional interventions, including any potential mitigation measures.
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