Some principles of project design

1. Grassroots participation. Bottom-up, top-down, participation …
2. Sustainability. But what does it mean??
3. Collective action. And transformatory potential
4. Flexibility
5. Scalability.
6. Social capital and local knowledge.
7. Leverage. Some projects produce it, many require it.
8. Appropriate technology.
9. Transparency (not)
10. Transformatory potential. Important enough to repeat.

For more detail, try this link.