INFRASTRUCTURE GOVERNANCE: THE “UNKNOWN EMERGING” AND “CONTEMPORARY REAL PUSHERS” OF SUCCESS IN SRI PROJECT DELIVERY
The road to SRI delivery is traditionally, scholarly and practically known as being neither straight nor short partially due to paradigm shifts in stakeholder engagement causing many infrastructure projects to fail with varying degrees of success. Despite being an economic fulcrum, delivering SRI in modern times necessitates not only effective and efficient but also intentional and networked stakeholder mapping and engagement. Modern practice shows there are emerging and networked unknown or believed to be known stakeholders – “Contemporary real pushers” who determine the success levels of infrastructure projects even before gestation. With literature documenting technical, customers and funding teams as the leading stakeholders; if the viewpoint is widened, project stakeholders are more than just these few; and amongst those undocumented “unknown or believed to be known” are the “Contemporary real pushers”. This paper aimed to introduce the concept of Unknown emerging / believed to be known stakeholders and determine the “Contemporary real pushers” of SRI project success. “Contemporary Real pushers” as a qualitative investigation carried out in Kampala, were determined through a Delphi technique using semi-structured questionnaires, and observations involving contractors, consultants, funders and academics. In line with principles of data saturation, the population was stratified by profession - and then purposively sampled from the lists held at respective professional institutions to arrive at a sample of 15. It was discovered that the “Unknown emerging stakeholders” are; President, Project-brokers, Military contractors, Clergy, other politicians and social groups; while the “Contemporary real pushers” are; (1) The president, (2) Project-brokers and (3) Clergy.
Contemporary Real Pushers, Stakeholders, Sustainable Infrastructure, Resilient Infrastructure, Construction Project Success.