Guidelines for Project Evaluation


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This publication represents the cumulative experience of UNIDO in the methodology and practice of national benefit-cost analysis for industrial project preparation and evaluation. UNIDO's work in this field began with the Interregional Symposium on Project Preparation and Evaluation held in Prague in 1965. On the basis of the recommendations of this symposium, UNIDO undertook to develop a set of guidelines which the developing countries could use for incorporating the evaluation and approval of new industrial projects into their over-all industrial planning mechanism.




Project Evaluation Guidelines


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Engineering Project Appraisal


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In most cases of civil engineering development, a range of alternative schemes meeting project goals are feasible, so some form of evaluation must be carried out to select the most appropriate to take forward. Evaluation criteria usually include the economic, environmental and social contexts of a project as well as the engineering challenges, so engineers must be familiar with the processes and tools used. The second edition of Engineering Project Appraisal equips students with the understanding and analytical tools to carry out effective appraisals of alternative development schemes, using both economic and non-economic criteria. The building blocks of economic appraisal are covered early, leading to techniques such as net present worth, internal rate of return and annual worth. Cost Benefit Analysis is dealt with in detail, together with related methods such as Cost Effectiveness and the Goal Achievement Matrix. The text also details three multi-criteria models which have proved useful in the evaluation of proposals in the transportation, solid waste, energy and water resources fields: the Simple Additive Weighting (SAW) Model, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) technique and Concordance Analysis. There is a full discussion dealing with risk and uncertainty in these models. With many worked examples and case studies, Engineering Project Appraisal is an essential text for both undergraduate and postgraduate students on professional civil engineering courses, and it is expected that students on planning and construction management courses will find it a valuable addition to their reading.




The Green Book


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This new edition incorporates revised guidance from H.M Treasury which is designed to promote efficient policy development and resource allocation across government through the use of a thorough, long-term and analytically robust approach to the appraisal and evaluation of public service projects before significant funds are committed. It is the first edition to have been aided by a consultation process in order to ensure the guidance is clearer and more closely tailored to suit the needs of users.




Guidelines for the Economic Analysis of Projects


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Project economic analysis is a tool used by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) to ensure that ADB operations comply with its Charter. The guidelines in this publication are a revised version of the 1997 edition. The revision responds to the changing development context and ADB operational priorities, and aims to address the recommendations of the ADB Quality-at-Entry Assessments for more methodological work on project economic analysis. The revised guidelines provide general principles for the conduct of project economic analysis, and should be read together with handbooks, technical reports, and other reference materials published by ADB dealing with sector-specific project economic analysis in detail.







Guidelines for Rail Project Appraisal


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The primary goal of forward-looking planning of our social environment should be to preserve sufficient resources for future generations without compromising the present. This statement clarifies the reason why this book concentrates on rail. Chapter 1 deals with the Stakeholders Engagement, a sine qua non condition to adopt in any decision-making process. Chapter 2 deals with the rail costs and revenues. In Chapter 3 the economic and financial analysis have been reported together with their indicators. Chapter 4 reports the risks connected with investments in the rail system.