Complex Projects: Evaluation Criteria for Front-end Governance

There is an international agreement that there is a need to develop improved methodologies for documentation and evaluation of project concepts in order to bring the typical problems of large, complex projects under control. The Norwegian Ministry of Finance has recently introduced a Quality Assurance regime that applies an intervention logic that complies with, for instance, the principles of Logical Framework Approach (LFA) and integrated evaluation criteria recommended by Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) for international development projects. This article describes how these frameworks have been useful in improving Front-end Governance.