Case Bank – GRASP – Governance for sustainablity in major projects

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Explore the GRASP Case Bank

The Case Bank is a core pillar of the GRASP Network: a carefully curated collection of case studies on major projects from around the world. It is the GRASP Network’s shared databes of major project experience and expertise, as a searchable, comparable and evolving repository of both theoretical and practical knowledge.

Searchable: Filter and find cases by country, region, sector, governance models, project types, key themes and more.
Comparable: Case studies use a common template to allow for cross-case learning, research, analysis and synthesis.
Evolving: Cases are regularly maintained and updated by case owners as projects move from planning to implementation to operation.

GRASP Case Studies are much more than a project summary. They are structured accounts of how a major project was imagined, decided, financed, contested and implemented. Each case study aims to:

Reconstruct the conception, governance, financing and implementation of major projects.

Trace actors, interests, conflicts and alliances across the project lifecycle.
Document controversies, delays, cost overruns, redesigns and learning processes.
Review existing governance practices (what’s working, what isn’t and why).
Identify new approaches in specific institutional and political contexts.