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Project Management

The security situation has limited the geographic scope of implementation of Project activities to date. The TAG report, while recognising the constraints of the present conflict situation on government and Project staff mobility, felt that the Project’s presence in relatively accessible areas, inhabited by comparatively better-off people, was perceived to have created more disparity as poor and needy people in more remote areas were not being supported. The TAG concluded that this disparity could lead to antagonism towards the Project and government and recommended that the Project should consider covering wider areas within the two districts, targeting in particular the more poverty stricken and vulnerable belts. Moreover, it was considered appropriate to mobilise local partners such as local NGOs and CBOs, who would have better penetration in the communities, and to focus on activities that would contribute to peace building. However, given the abbreviated timeframe for the Project, there is no likelihood of achieving any satisfactory impact in new areas and the focus will be on consolidating community-based achievements within areas already covered.