Yes they were consulted to some extent the goal was to utilise some idle land. Maybe the goal was where the problem lay.Did you consult the youths or you are also assuming that you know better than them?
In the one that I was in training and baseline survey are conducted before implementation but partisan clan politics made it naught.
There is also a mission hospital that was built somewhere by missionaries from Asia and the whole institution collapsed and the buildings are now just there empty...there are many examples where projects were done simply because there was money and they ended up failing for various reasons