Overcoming Skepticism about Technical Assistance Projects : The Story of the Agribusiness Competitiveness Center in the Kyrgyz Republic
Many people in the Europe and Central Asia Region are skeptical about the value of Technical Assistance (TA) provided under donor projects. Governments, for example, prefer investments in hard infrastructure as opposed to borrowing money for knowle...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/11/16234428/overcoming-skepticism-technical-assistance-projects-story-agribusiness-competitiveness-center-kyrgyz-republic http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10429 |
| Summary: | Many people in the Europe and Central
Asia Region are skeptical about the value of Technical
Assistance (TA) provided under donor projects. Governments,
for example, prefer investments in hard infrastructure as
opposed to borrowing money for knowledge, since the results
of knowledge are not immediately visible. In the private
sector, people tend to think they already know what their
problems-and solutions-are. They think the only impediment
to solving their problems is lack of money; the most popular
response to advice from consultants is, 'Yeah, but I
know it myself.' So, how can a TA project be successful
in this environment? This was the challenge for the World
Bank-financed Agribusiness and Marketing Project (ABMP) in
the Kyrgyz Republic. This smart lesson offers lessons
learned from the experience of ABMP, which began in 2005 and
is expected to close on June 30, 2012. |
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