by
Norman W. Hudson
Silsoe Agriculture Associates
Ampthill, Bedford
United Kingdom
Soil Resources,
Management and Conservation Service
FAO Land and Water Development Division
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS - Rome, 1991
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1.1 Terms of Reference
1.2 Background to the study
1.3 Development of the study
2.1 What is "success"?
2.2 Evaluation methods used by some agencies
2.3 Methods used in this study
3.1 Agency policies and procedures
3.2 Policies and procedures of recipient
3.3 Design of projects
4.1 Donor factors
4.2 Recipient factors
4.3 Technology
4.4 Research
4.5 Monitoring
5.1 Evaluation
5.2 Continuity
5.3 Spreading and sustainability
6. Some variables in project design
6.1 Single or multiple purpose?
6.2 Single or multiple donor?
6.3 The scale of the project
6.4 Scale of agency
6.5 Changing fashions in lending
6.6 Incentives, subsidies and FFW
Appendix 1 - Results of project assessments
Appendix 2 - Summaries of the assessed projects
Appendix 3 - The evaluation method used in this study
Appendix 4 - Possible projects
Appendix 5 - References