Finally, the fourth critical factor for success, from our experience, really relates to the operational factors with respect to actual implementation of the public service partnerships or initiatives.
There are numerous smaller considerations that reflect the experience and professionalism of the domestic partner organization or interlocutors, which play a significant role in determining whether a partnership will in fact be successful. We'll take this opportunity to list just a few of these key operational factors to give you a rough sense of why experience on the ground is very significant as it relates to the success of these types of initiatives.
In the first place, the quality and rigour of orientation provided to volunteers or visiting experts can make or break a project, in that the quality of their input very much depends on the scope, breadth, and depth of their understanding of that particular context where interventions are being provided.
Second is the recruitment and deployment of the right people at the right time, whether those people be retired volunteers, active civil servants, specialized paid consultants, academics, or even sitting or former parliamentarians.
Third is the average length of each mission or tour of duty, as we often like to call it, and the frequency of follow-through in terms of the provision of advisory support.
Fourth is the flexibility and willingness of the funder to allow a project to adapt to changing circumstances. As we noted earlier in our presentation, our particular civil service reform project is situated in a context where we're working with the 16th Ukrainian government since independence, since the early 1990s, so it's clearly a very flexible and unpredictable environment.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you. We hope to have the opportunity to explore some of these themes further in the question and answer section.
Thank you.