070820 CfRR External Evaluation report and Mgt Comment FIN…

Consortium of Swiss Organisations Funded by the people of Switzerland External evaluation report on the Cash for Repair and Reconstruction Project Sri Lanka commissioned by the Consortium of Swiss Organisations (Swiss Solidarity, Swiss Red Cross, HEKS and SDC) Matara Trincomalee Evaluation: November 2006 / Final report: March 2007 By: Yasemin AYSAN Muhammed AHEEYAR Paul HARVEY Shanthi SATCHITHANANDAM Management Comment The Consortium of Swiss Organisations (SC) herewith accepts the report on the external evaluation as performed in November 2006 and submitted in its final version on March 03 / 2007 and wishes to express its appreciation of the professional work carried out by the evaluation team headed by Ms Yasemin Aysan and comprising of Mr Paul Harvey, Mr Muhammed Aheeyar and Ms Shanti Satchithanandam. The current management comment replaces the first comment from April 2007. The reason is the decision taken by the SC for the publication of the full report. The SC highly appreciates this evaluation since it enables the SC to take necessary measures, to some extent in the current, but also for future projects. As a result, it seemed appropriate to the SC to respond in more detail and precision to the recommendations and main weaknesses identified by the evaluation team. In ...