Assessing Sustainability: Looking Through the Development Project Results after It Ends

Abstract

The current paper focuses on the issue of aid effectiveness by studying a particular development project which was conducted in Afghanistan Ministry of Finance. It narrows down DAC criteria, a widely-known method used for aid evaluation, to sustainability criterion in order to assess long term effectiveness of the project. By reviewing donor’s evaluation reports, it presents to its reader the so-called results of the project. Then it compares the reported results with their current statuses (if exist) to find out what happened after the project ended. These two steps prepare the reader for detailed sustainability examination of each output. Simultaneously, it looks through the factors affecting sustainability or extinction of the outputs to declare hindrances limiting the development project sustainability in Afghanistan.