In international development, that is the age-old problem or question: the whole idea of all the different countries and agencies working in one country and duplicating each other and competing for aid projects. At the global level, there is the development association, the DAC, through the OECD in Paris, that tries to do this kind of global development cooperation and do all the coordination. Again, it's difficult to control.
So at our level in terms of CESO, we are guided by the countries, because if each country is required to have a poverty reduction strategy and various strategies towards development--and they're required to have that by the international donor agencies--that should be their road map for development. We try to analyze within their road map where our strengths would fit.
Then, in finding the partners we would like to work with, we do an institutional analysis, which is why I mentioned that we have criteria for partners. In that institutional analysis, we would ask that partner how many other agencies they are doing projects with. We would like to see and know what kinds of projects they are doing, so that when we go and work with them we fill a gap, and we don't duplicate.
At our level, we try to do our own control, because at the wider international level, or even the national level, it's difficult. So in selecting partners, we do an institutional analysis, and we do a profile where we have information of all the donor projects that are ongoing within that partner. Then we try to see if we're needed and if we fit--if there's a gap. If there's not and we think we will just be duplicating, we don't go with that partner.