Telesis "...an ancient Greek word signifying the achievement of a steady progress towards an objective through careful planning & the intelligent use of resources"
SEEL personnel have been actively engaged in Project Evaluation for more than 35 years. Projecy Evaluation has been a permanent feature of SEEL's work since its foundation involving the assessment of projects both before, during and following implementation.
Range of experience
This work has involved assignments for private companies, goverments and international organizations and has included projects for economic development, agriculture, information systems, poverty alleviation, human rights issues, transition, privatization, establishment of institution, human resources training, institutional development, governance and participatory systems.
Refining the process
With a long experience in this field SEEL have refined several aspects of evaluation practice including:
Employment and income generation: the development of specific analytical methods for projects designed to generate employment within low income communities where the formal educational attainments are low. This state of affairs requires a different approach to the financial evaluation based upon a timeframed performance profile which is linked to a learning curve which can be specified using state of the art practice and known technological parameters.
Genotypic-phenotypic bioclimatic adjustments: in a large number of agricultural projects which make use of experimental and local crop performance data to estimate performance end up not meeting expectations. This is because the performance of crops is significantly influenced by mico-locational bioclimatic variables which can cause significant changes in yields within a short geographic distance. Micro-agro-climatic zoning of crop performance potential has become an important input for medium to large scale agricultural projects.
Risk reduction optimization: as a result of a long experience in farm planning optimization, agricultural projects are seldom treated as a fixed input-output relationship but various optimizations according to possible variations in input prices and market prices can provide a more realistic evaluation as well as provide guidance for project managers under changing circumstances.
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