CASE-CULTURAL ARTIFACTS PROJECT 2025 Your group has been selected as the project management team to identify, document, and consequently provide a comprehensive report of all substantial heritage and cultural artifacts (mainly of historical interest) in Atlantis, a country in the Eastern Caribbean. This endeavor is dubbed the Cultural Artifacts Project 2025. The country's rich heritage and cultural artifacts forms part of its tourism product. The Cultural Artifact Project is part of a larger programme designed at preserving the cultural artifacts of the country and stimulating cultural and heritage tourism. The team's project outputs(result) and outcome will become a significant input into other projects related to this larger programme. The project sponsor, the Director of Culture in the Department of Culture, has suggested a reasonable period of six (6) months for the project team to complete the project, and to present all key deliverables to the department. The proposed start date of the project is June 09, 2025. Resources The high-level budget of the project is US$1 million. The project will be funded by a grant of US$0.30 million from the Caribbean Heritage Society (CHS) and the balance of US$0.70 million by the Government of Atlantis. Three (3) internal resource sharing agreements are expected to be negotiated and executed before the project kickoff meeting. These agreements are intended to allow the project team to 'freely' share and utilize any available physical resources and equipment from three (3) other government departments/units. Also, these agreements are intended to realize cost savings for the project. Any other materials and/or resources that are not available or obtainable through the resource sharing agreements will be procured directly from local suppliers/vendors. Stakeholders The support of the local indigenous communities and their leaders, local cultural groups, museums, universities, and other island residents is pivotal to the success of the project. Their roles in identifying and sharing knowledge on the historical and cultural artifacts are invaluable. Likewise, senior citizens are normally considered a good repository of local and historical facts. Traditionally, the access to private property and to artifacts that are privately owned can be challenging, and in all cases individuals' constitutional rights must be respected. Notwithstanding, the project team needs to effectively engage stakeholders in order to access private property and privately owned artifacts. The local archaeological society, a local university, and a couple of local historians have shown keen interest in the project. A local conservation and environmental group and some residents in the rural communities think the project is intended to sell tangible cultural property to the highest bidder on the market for illicit trade of cultural property. This in light of recent reports from UNESCO and TRACIT confirming that the illicit import, export, and transfer of ownership of cultural property is a growing threat within global trade. For unknown reasons the local museum, bar (legal) association, tourism board, and commerce association have shown very little to no interest in the project. Risks and other constraints The project sponsor insists that the project should be completed before December 31 of 2025 because the Division of Tourism needs the output/results of this project to kick off a tourism project in January of 2026. The risk for this project is expected to be in-line with risks commonly associated to 'archaeological-type' and field research projects. The sponsor has mentioned the need to follow Government's procurement processes if any purchases need to be made. The main deliverable needs to be of 'high' quality to guarantee stakeholders' satisfaction. There are rumors that the Government of Atlantis may be lowering budgetary allocations for government departments due to recent downturns in the economy, however the sponsor has not made mention of this rumor in initial discussions. Likewise, it is common knowledge within the public service organization that resource sharing arrangements hardly works like 'clockwork' due to the bureaucracy involved.