RELEVANCE:The CIWP is of continued high relevance to Iran and to achievement of regional and global environmental benefits. EFFICIENCY:CIWP implementation has been only moderately efficient to date, hindered by imprecise planning and design, slow start and implementation, and inattention to strategic management and budgeting. EFFICACY:The CIWP has been moderately effective to date, but needs to clarify its objectives and focus on strategy and results rather than activities; the long-term institutional arrangements for wetlands & basin governance plus the project‟s role in facilitating systemic capacity development need to be confirmed. SUSTAINABILITY: With increased efficiency, an extension in time and a clearer focus on the key planned results, the CIWP is likely to achieve its purpose of piloting and introducing an improved Iranian system for wetland & basin conservation that will be sustainable beyond the project - financially, socio-politically, institutionally and environmentally.