A Critical Analysis and Appraisal of the World Bank Project of Healthcare System in Montenegro: An International Project Management Perspective

Abstract

International interventional projects exert great impact on the target countries. This study appraises the World Bank’s healthcare system improvement project in the Republic of Montenegro. From the perspective of international project management appraisal of an overseas project, the study makes a systematic thematic review and a critical objective exposition of the Bank’s publication on the project, drawing evidential insights from professional and experiential knowledge and methods. It also relied on relevant secondary data, sourced from the internet and several offline libraries. Based on the nature of the study, descriptive survey and qualitative analysis are employed alongside suitable analytic techniques. The analysis demonstrates that regardless of the inherent country-based challenges that confronted the project, its overall impact is huge and the attained success is satisfactory, though not very satisfactory. It concludes that the project has significantly and sustainably changed the narratives of the erstwhile healthcare system of Montenegro, as operations, practices and access to healthcare services in Montenegro got improved till date. The study calls on World Bank and other like institutions to do more for developing nations in dire needs of lifesaving projects. They are charged to have post-project completion monitoring mechanisms and programs that allow for sustenance and maintenance of the projects, such as that on healthcare system improvement in Montenegro.