{"id":35,"date":"2007-10-09T12:02:28","date_gmt":"2007-10-09T10:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/2007\/10\/09\/a-thought\/"},"modified":"2007-10-09T12:02:28","modified_gmt":"2007-10-09T10:02:28","slug":"a-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2007\/10\/09\/a-thought\/","title":{"rendered":"a thought…"},"content":{"rendered":"

the key issues for a successful technical assistance programme (under my point of view) are:<\/p>\n

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  1. needs assessment<\/li>\n
  2. strategy<\/li>\n
  3. implementation:<\/strong> cooperation with other agencies.\n
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    1. if we want impact: only long term projects, in order to give the sufficient inertia for them to run independently (minimum 5 years)<\/li>\n
    2. only projects above 1.000.000 us.<\/li>\n
    3. have a reliable full-time local focal point.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      if you can not have them all, then do not take the project.<\/p>\n

      for bigger impact, when sector related activities, then choose market driven approaches:<\/p>\n

      example: product development, marketing and tackle all value chain. the countries, regions and sectors are chosen following this criteria and not on the other way around.<\/p>\n

      a sector is not an independent entity<\/p>\n

      just some thoughts….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      the key issues for a successful technical assistance programme (under my point of view) are: needs assessment strategy implementation: cooperation with other agencies. if we want impact: only long term projects, in order to give the sufficient inertia for them to run independently (minimum 5 years) only projects above 1.000.000 us. have a reliable full-time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thought"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}