Published in Scientific Papers. Series "Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and rural development", Vol. 17 ISSUE 1
Written by Zornitsa STOYANOVA

The projects in water sector can be defined as public, investment and infrastructural or combined. In order to be implemented a project like so one of the requirements is to be prepared risk assessment of project management in water sector, which is the main aim of the paper (to assess the risk of project management in water sector). On this basis are made generalized conclusions for the level of risk in the sector and possible recommendations to reduce it. The first part of the paper presents literature review of risk assessment in project management. The second part of the paper assesses the risk of project management in water sector based on opinion of project beneficiaries of the Operational Programme Environment 2007-2013, axis 1. The main results connected with risk assessment present that neither indicator could be defined as system risk. Most of the indicators are defined as irrelevant risks. Made by the experts classification of the possible risk shows that some indicators are defined as critical risks. Recommendations are connected with management of all types of risk, involvement of project manager and project team members in identification and evaluation of the risks, monitoring of risk etc. The conclusions in the paper are based on the results of university research project “Project management of sustainable development in water sector” (UNWE).

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