As the project's Cooperating Institution, UNOPS (UN Office for Project Services) did not
perform its role satisfactorily, as highlighted in the 2004 MTR. Overall, it conducted 5
supervision missions, of which the first one took place twenty months after project
effectiveness! The second supervision mission took place ten months after the first. As
CBRDP was the first provincial-based, multi-agency, multi sector project in the country
such delay has been deemed a very serious issue. Partly as a result of this delay,
resolution of some of the start-up problems has taken up to three years (up to MTR in
2004). In addition, important decisions were made by the project in consultation with
UNOPS, some of which UNOPS should have questioned. In addition, there has been a
lack of continuity in supervision, as since project start-up, three different portfolio
managers have been responsible for the project. This severely affected the
effectiveness of project's supervision.