As a problem-solving agent, TCP brings FAO's expertise and experience to bear on a range of situations in which assistance provided in one key area helps to mobilize a country's agricultural productive energies on a wider scale. TCP's main features are its deliberately unprogrammed character and its flexibility and capacity to act rapidly and with a minimum amount of bureaucracy. Both by design and in practice, the Programme meets unforeseeable needs, fills critical gaps, complements and facilitates other forms of assistance and seeks to mobilize additional multilateral and bilateral resources for technical cooperation or investment. These characteristics enable the leverage of the Programme's limited financial resources to extend the results of a particular project well beyond its immediate outputs and impact, thereby generating lasting and widespread benefits.
TCP projects are considered to have a catalytic effect when they produce one or more of the following results:
