The project was beset with issues starting right from its exceptionally long gestation. Having been conceived in 1996, it was only in 2006 that the project documents were finally fully approved and in 2007 the contracts signed. One immediate consequence of this was that all the cofinancing was redundant: the cofinacers had either completed the work that was supposed to be carried out simultaneously or had withdrawn their funding. If the implementation had started on time, the project would have worked at a higher, strategic level in synergy with a suite of work that was being implemented on the ground. As a consequence, the project was immediately torn as to the role it should play. But from the outset, the Inception Report did not adequately refocus the project on the priorities at the time of the project?s start. Indeed, it was two years before the project began to find the role that it should play; this coincided with the recruitment of the TA. The MTE was carried out in late 2010 although it was only approved in April 2011 by which time the project, according to the official GEF timeline, had only eight more months to run. The project?s application for a year?s no-cost extension was cut to six months and so the project was drawn to a close on 30 June 2012