Evaluation Capacity Development
Strengthening the Project Performance Management System in Nepal

Lessons Identified

• Stakeholders’ full participation is essential at both the TA preparatory and implementation stages to cultivate a sense of ownership among the participants and to forestall lack of motivation among implementing staff to initiate TA activities.
• A thorough assessment of the beneficiaries; capability/institutional environment prior to TA design would ensure the design's appropriateness and the demand for the TA outputs, and help avoid overly optimistic objectives. In the case of Nepal, for instance, attempting to computerize poorly performing manual monitoring systems may not be the best solution.
• The lack of data encoders and of programming skills necessary to modify or correct program bugs impinges upon the sustainability of project performance management system in the long run.