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h. Col.abotativeiy develop specific program
plans tor the first two years, including
assignment ot specitic department/agency
rezponsibilit les.
i. Recruit and train 4 additional TEA.
j3 belect and/or design equipment, supplies and
bui'dings and let contract.
k. Survey tambon land resources, soils, and
markets.
il Recruit technical field assistants and other
personnei.
m. Plan and initiate research field trials.
n, Site selection and design of water and
land resource modification structures.
0. Evaluation ot progress and procedures and
revisin ot plans accotdlngiy.
The first yea, implementation steps are crucial to
the success or the PLo3ect. The considerable time expected
for assembling and tLaining Pro3ect staif, detailed planning
of initial Pro3ect activities, development of Project operational
plans and assignment of responsibilities to MOAC
agencies, is a result ot three factors. The first, which
has already been mentioned, is the Project commitment to
bottom-up planning. The second is the fact that when the
need for adequate start-up time is ignored a project
invariably tails behind schedule. The third involves the
Project's comitment to integrated pLanning and cooperative
implementation Cooperative implementation requires
integrated planning by the indivduals who will be responsible
for the impLementation. The process oi initially
training project personnei followed by project planning by
these s;me individuals can substantially enhance the possibilities
for truly cocperctive implementation. Itis also
essential that the mapping act.vities and site selection and
engineering for in'.tia soil and water structures be done
and that field researco be started at or near the beginning
of the second pro;ect year. These activitiea along with
village involvement in planning act i'.ites will provide a
firm basis for village commitment to the Pro3ect, and show
beneficiaries that concrete benefits wili be forthcoming at
an early stage ot implementation,