Interim Evaluation

The project was successful on several fronts: intensive training provided crucial support for social organisation; beneficiaries got involved in project planning and management; development centres facilitated decentralisation; approaches to agriculture were appropriate, practical and realistic. Two project components posed a significant challenge to the project, however: the improvement of family income through agricultural production and the establishment of a credit fund to finance productive activities. Administered by community groups lacking organisational knowhow, the credit fund suffered weak administrative and managerial capacity.