CDC - CBP - 4.3. OPERATIONAL SUPPORT, INCLUDING EQUIPMENT

4.3 OPERATIONAL SUPPORT, INCLUDING
EQUIPMENT

4.3.1 RESULTS OF THE SURVEY

69. A total expenditure of close to 22 million US dollars spent on operational support, including equipment, has been reported by the 147 multilateral and bilateral programs/projects and the 77 NGOs - representing 8.2 percent of the total expenditure for 2002 reported in the survey. (Table 9).

TABLE 9: INCIDENCE, SIGNIFICANCE, AND EXPENDITURE ON
PROVIDING OPERATIONAL SUPPORT

Operational Support	Multilateral Donors No. of projects %	Bilatera Donors No. of projects %	NGOs No. of NGOs %	TOTAL No. of projects or NGOs %
Total number of respondents: CBP Survey Number Providing Operational Support, including Equipment	86 100.0% 58 67.4%	61 100.0% 25 41.0%	77 100.0% 56 72.7%	224 100.0% 139 62.1%
Significance of Providing Operational Support Critical Important Not very important Not Reported Total Number Providing Operational Support	24 41.4% 26 44.8% 1 1.7% 7 12.1% 58 100.0%	9 36.0% 14 56.0% 1 4.0% 1 4.0% 25 100.0%	26 46.4% 29 51.8% 1 1.8% 0 0% 56 100.0%	59 42.4% 69 49.6% 3 2.2% 8 5.8% 139 100.0%
Total Reported Expenditure on Providing Operational Support, including Equipment (in US$ )	$9,902,000	$4,346,000	$7,671,000	$21,919,000
Total Disbursements In 2002 On Programs/Projects Reported In The CBP Survey (in US$)	$129,258,000	$69,327,000	$67,155,000	$265,740,000
Expenditure on Operational Support as % of Total program Expenditure	7.7%	6.3%	11.4%	8.2%

Figure 14: Percent of Programs that Provided Operational Support

70. Roughly 70 per cent of multilateral and NGO projects provided operational support to their reported projects, while only some 40 per cent of the bilateral projects did so. However, practically all donors who did provide operational support reported that the support was critical or important to the success of the projects.

71. The share of total reported expenditure spent on operational support was significantly higher for NGOs (11.4 per cent) than for other donors who spent in the 6-8 per cent range of their total expenditure on operational support.

72. Total expenditures on providing operational, including equipment, of more than 100,000 US dollars have been reported by 18.8 percent of the respondents, and another 16.5 percent have reported training expenditure of between 10,000 and 50,000 US dollars (Table 10). A higher proportion of multilateral donor supported programs have reported expenditures on operational support of over 100,000 US dollars (20.9 percent) than NGOs (18.2 percent) and bilateral donors (16.4 percent). In the case of NGOs, the highest proportion of respondents, 20.8 percent, have reported expenditures of less than 10,000 US dollars on providing operational support.

TABLE 10: RANGE OF EXPENDITURE ON OPERATIONAL SUPPORT

Range of Training Expenditure	Number and Percent of Donor Projects Providing Training
Range of Training Expenditure	Multilateral Donors No. of projects %	Bilateral Donors No. of projects %	NGOs No. of NGOs %	TOTAL No. of projects or NGOs %
Less than 10,000 USD 10,000 – 50,000 USD 50,001-100,000 USD More than 100,000 USD	16 18.6% 18 20.9% 6 7.0% 18 20.9%	3 4.9% 8 13.1% 4 6.6 10 16.4%	16 20.8% 11 14.3% 11 14.3% 14 18.2%	35 15.6% 37 16.5% 21 9.4% 42 18.8%
Total Number Of Projects Or NGOs That Provided Operational Support	58 67.4%	25 41.0%	52 67.5%	135 60.3%
Total Number Of Projects Or NGOs That Did Not Provide Operational Support	28 32.6%	36 59.0%	25 32.5%	89 39.7%
Total Number of Projects or NGOs	86 100.0%	61 100.0%	77 100.0%	224 100.0%

4.3.2 RESULT OF THE INTERVIEWS

73. The interview process contributed no special comments on the issue of operational support.

4.3.3 CONCLUSIONS

74. Roughly 60 per cent of bilaterally funded projects reported that they did not provide any operational support or equipment compared to about 30 per cent for multilaterally and NGO funded projects and programs. Whether this difference is due to under-reporting or to the different nature of the projects concerned cannot be established.

75. Altogether some 8 per cent of total reported expenditure and some 19 per cent of reported expenditure for capacity building purposes was devoted to providing operational support, including equipment. As indicated, practically all projects for which such support was provided considered it critical or important. No further conclusion can be drawn from the survey material.

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