officers, cotton inspector and lead farmers. Please refer Table 1.43 for reporting pattern. Till the time of this report the stakeholder meeting has not been done, it is scheduled on November 2014. Output 7: Impact Assessment of Best CAP Conducted Impact assessment shall be carried during closure period which is to be carried out3 months after completion of operational period Challenges and Lesson Learnt During Project Implementation Delay release of fund from signing the financing agreement to the time fund was disbursed. This took almost 4 months from 12thOctober 2012 to 31st January 2013; again it took six months doing preliminary arrangement for technical staff to implement the project. There have been a challenge of meeting deadline; this is because villagers and ginners do not turn on time on an event. Sometimes it ‘staffs required us to reschedule the activities we can call this simple poor time management. To tackle the challenge is to set a certain percent of provisional time during planning. Some politicians in the project are against contract farming, this is a challenge because the project setup is to operate under contractual relationship with inputs providers. This challenge somehow contributed to delay of some of activity implementation. Lack of expertise in managing donor funded project which led to inconsistence decision making between the host organisation, project team and the donor.
officers, cotton inspector and lead farmers. Please refer Table 1.43 for reporting pattern. Till the time of this report the stakeholder meeting has not been done, it is scheduled on November 2014. Output 7: Impact Assessment of Best CAP Conducted Impact assessment shall be carried during closure period which is to be carried out3 months after completion of operational period Challenges and Lesson Learnt During Project Implementation Delay release of fund from signing the financing agreement to the time fund was disbursed. This took almost 4 months from 12thOctober 2012 to 31st January 2013; again it took six months doing preliminary arrangement for technical staff to implement the project. There have been a challenge of meeting deadline; this is because villagers and ginners ‘staffs do not turn on time on an event. Sometimes it required us to reschedule the activities we can call this simple poor time management. To tackle the challenge is to set a certain percent of provisional time during planning. Some politicians in the project are against contract farming, this is a challenge because the project setup is to operate under contractual relationship with inputs providers. This challenge somehow contributed to delay of some of activity implementation. Lack of expertise in managing donor funded project which led to inconsistence decision making between the host organisation, project team and the donor.