Abstract

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the need for sustainability of international agricultural development cooperation projects and to provide implications on which factors affect the enhancement of project sustainability. Originality: This study is meaningful in that it compared and analyzed the factors that affect the sustainability of the project targeting experts in the donor country and the recipient country. As agriculture is important in Uganda, a priority partner country, it intends to provide direction in terms of securing the sustainability of international agricultural development cooperation projects.
 Methodology: After deriving the factors that affect the sustainability of international agricultural development cooperation project through previous studies, 15 experts in Korea and Uganda were surveyed and analyzed using AHP analysis.
 Result: In the top-factors, both donor and beneficiary countries showed the same priority.
 However, in the sub-factors, there showed a difference between the two countries, as donor countries say “Market development is more important than production technology and quality management,” and beneficiary countries say “Production technology and quality management are more important than market development”. In addition, donor country were found to have a lower priority in ‘ownership’ than recipient country.
 Conclusion and Implication: As the importance of ‘capacity building’ was found to be the highest in both country’s experts. Therefore, it is a need to promote development cooperation and field experts, which are the main agents of the project, and also the training of local manpower, which are the main agents of the after the end of the project. It is desirable to enhance the local manpower in both facility management and international cooperation as well as agricultural to contribute to the creation of a friendly international cooperation ecosystem as well as to enhance the sustainability of the project.

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