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This is again an iterative process, as it may be necessary to review and revise the scope of project
activities and expected results once the resource implications and budget become clearer” (PCM
Guidelines 2004, p.60)

The consideration of the stakeholders in association with the institutional capacity assessment and
mapping of the main players and their needs may allow for a complete sustainable approach, where
the bottom-up processes are present as well. In the case of projects with many sector
subcomponents or which include in the later lifetime the presence of sub-projects, representatives of
the sectors or the fields where subprojects will run should be involved in the analysis and planning
stage. The succession of activities needed for designing and up-dating the logical framework is
connected to sustainability need as well as with other evaluation criteria. The following picture
briefly illustrates these connections.

Figure 6 The Ling between evaluation criteria and the logical framework(PCM Guidelines 2004,
p.49)

Comparing means and activities with the results allows measuring the efficiency. Checking the
results over the project purpose gives a good indication on the effectiveness of the projects, while

comparing the project purpose with the overall objective provides the input for impact. Relevance
results from comparison between problematic situation and overall objective hierarchy.

Evaluation has a special role pointed out in the 2004 version of PCM - it properly follows the
process and designs the eventual re-planning, and also it allows that implementation becomes a
learning process by reflecting on the acquired practices, being them good or bad ones. As both have
learning potential, it is more important to be honest in the conducted evaluation, than to try to make
up the project operational reality.

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