The fear of admitting failure ...
Published by Janek Hermann-Friede, Transparency International - Programme Coordinator Water Integrity Network
The fear of admitting failure of projects and initiatives continues to be a key challenge to advance service delivery through non-profits. There are too many projects that get prolonged over and over again, despite a lack of added value (just as there are many good ones). We need to establish incentives to foster an attitude that recognizes failure early on as a basis to then change course or follow-up with adapted or more innovative approaches to enhance service delivery and resource management. On this basis I believe we could leverage required innovation and higher quality contributions through charitable organizations.