EVALUATING LESSONS LEARNED PRACTICES (LLPs) IN PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP) PROJECTS IN NIGERIA
EVALUATING LESSONS LEARNED PRACTICES (LLPs) IN PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP) PROJECTS IN NIGERIA
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2012-11
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ABDU – LAWAN, GALI ZAREWA,
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The increasing complexity, duration and multitude of parties involved in a typical PPP
procurement process, have made several studies to stress the importance of proactive and
systematic capture of project knowledge through the use of formal lessons learned practices
(LLP). The conduct of LLPs in the procurement of PPP projects has the potentials of
improving the projects performance and providing information on reasons for their success
and/or failures, the problems encountered and how they were addressed. This study
evaluated Lessons Learned Practices (LLPs) in PPP projects in Nigeria through the use of
Semi-Structured interviews with people from two client organizations and two
concessionaires who have participated in 19 PPP projects and case studies of two PPP
projects. The interviews have revealed that all the project participants considered LLPs in
PPP projects as desirable and useful; the projects’ participants’ knowledge in LLPs needed
to be improved; the conduct of LLPs was neither formalist nor conducted in accordance
with best practice or requirements of the LLP concept; there was no framework and/or
standard template for the conduct of LLPs; none of the interviewees’ organizations has a
knowledge management strategy for the capture, application and sharing of project
knowledge; while the level of LIP application in the projects was discovered to be only
12%. Case Studies of the two PP projects conducted thereafter with a view to arriving at
more conclusive findings have confirmed the first five findings of the interviews while the
average level of application of Lips per project was below 9.1%. The findings have further
suggested that correct conduct of Lips in the procurement of PP projects in Nigeria can
lead to a more successful delivery of such projects.
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EVALUATING,, LESSONS LEARNED PRACTICES (LLPs), PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP (PPP) PROJECTS,, NIGERIA