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Step by step project appraisal process

Short answer

Project appraisal is systematic assessment before funds are committed. The process steps are screening, defining criteria, collecting data, appraising technical, market, managerial, financial, economic, environmental and social aspects, performing risk and sensitivity analysis, comparing alternatives, recommending, preparing the report, and deciding with follow-up. The outcome is accept, modify or reject, with a baseline for monitoring.

Describe the step by step process of project appraisal.

Project appraisal is the critical, systematic assessment of a proposed project, before commitment of funds, to judge whether it is technically sound, economically and financially viable, environmentally and socially acceptable, and worth undertaking.

Step by step process

  1. Receive and screen the proposal: check it is complete and matches policy.
  2. Define the scope and criteria of appraisal (technical, economic, financial, social, environmental).
  3. Collect and verify data: site visit, market data, costs, laws.
  4. Technical appraisal: design, technology, capacity, schedule.
  5. Market and managerial appraisal.
  6. Financial appraisal: cost, funding, cash flow, NPV, IRR, payback.
  7. Economic appraisal: shadow prices, B/C, EIRR.
  8. Environmental and social appraisal.
  9. Risk and sensitivity analysis.
  10. Compare alternatives and make the recommendation: accept, modify or reject.
  11. Prepare the appraisal report and submit it to the approving authority.
  12. Decision and follow-up: approval, conditions, baseline for monitoring.

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