Project Cycle Management Training Handbook - CFCU

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Project Cycle Management Training Handbook
• Policy support – the extent to which the partner government have
demonstrated support for the continuation of project services
beyond the period of donor support.
• Appropriate technology – whether the technologies applied by the
project can or should continue to operate in the longer run (eg.
availability of spare parts; sufficiency of safety regulations;
appropriateness to local capabilities for operation and
maintenance).
• Institutional and management capacity – the ability and
willingness of the implementing agencies to continue to deliver
project services beyond the period of donor support.
• Economic and financial viability – whether the incremental
benefits of the project outweigh its costs, and the project represents
a viable long-term investment. 4
• Socio-cultural and gender issues affecting motivation and
participation – the extent to which the needs of all beneficiary
groups will be addressed by the project and the effect this will have
on the distribution of benefits in the longer term. 5
• Environmental protection – the extent to which the project will
preserve or damage the ecological environment and therefore
support or undermine achievement of longer term benefits. 6
These factors are assessed in terms of their probability and
significance in the same way as external factors (using the algorithm),
either being discarded as unimportant, included as assumptions in the
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The Financial and Economic Analysis Manual (EC 1997) provides a comprehensive methodology to be used at
the different phases of the project cycle.
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The most common tool for integrating environment into the different phases of the project cycle is the
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA). In DG 1B, the EIA procedures are described in the EIA Guidance Note.
In DG VIII, the procedures are outlined in the Environment Manual. Currently, these procedures are being
revised and harmonised to be integrated in a new Environment Integration Manual.
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Further materials can be requested from the Gender & Development Desks in DG 1B (Gender In Development
Manual, 1992; Gender Impact Assessment – GIA- Procedures and Guidelines) and DGVIII (Gender and Project
Cycle Management, Notes on Gender & Development, Standard Format for Project Identification).
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