Case Study on the Deficiences and Difficulties of Project Management since the Promotion Stage of Integrated Waste Systems

The present case study focuses on the shortcomings and difficulties encountered in the management of projects in the environment protection area, respectively of integrated waste management systems, observed in similar projects, promoted simultaneously in five counties in Romania, counties located in different development regions. Thus, following a European funding, five counties were selected to receive free consultancy services for the elaboration of in view of elaborating the county master plans at county level and the complete documentation for the required financing application that also requires an application for funding in the field of environment protection, respectively waste management. One of the requirements that the counties had to fulfil in order to receive the funding was the expressed unequivocal willingness to implement the project at county level. A Project Implementationg Unit (PIU) was created set up at county council level with the precise purpose of managing and implementing the project. Even though the counties benefited from free technical assistance in institutional, technical – economic and environment protection aspects, major delays in finalizing and approving the application were encountered in all the cases studied, due to reasons that depended mostly on the manner the project management was conducted.