EXTERNAL RELATIONS AND PARTNERSHIPS

Project Support is in charge of the Cycle of a Project, which is the process whereby a proposal of project is endorsed by the organization, presented to potential donors, negotiated with them, implemented in the field, and finally evaluated in terms of contrast between expected results and concrete implementations. The project cycle includes three basic phases: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

In the context of the project design, the viability of the proposal is evaluated before making a final decision. The design of the project is scrutinized in the context of a process in which models and alternative designs are compared. As a result, recommendations in favor of the maintenance, the modification or the non-execution of the project are made. The review also goes much further and includes considerations concerning the quality, adaptation, realism, and potential for the proposal, logically also in terms of implementation, control and evaluation.

Once a project is approved in the Group of Review of Projects, it can be presented officially to potential donors through the Office of External Relations of PAHO.

Once the agreements are signed and the project is in its implementation phase, control tasks are used as a tool to observe the progress of the projects. The basic idea of the control strategies is the comparison between the implementation and the plans, and between outcomes obtained and the ones expected. In general, then, the objective of this control phase is that of leading the projects to the achievement of its objectives, and detecting any problem that has been able to arise during its implementation.

In the phases of implementation and evaluation the attention focuses in the improvement in the management of the projects and the optimal use of the funds, promoting the responsibility and the transparency, ensuring that technical cooperation is pertinent, effective, and efficient, providing complete information in the progress and the results on the project, and taking lessons of the experience with a view to improving the design , the formulation and the management of the projects.