This was an evaluation undertaken independently by the Public Service Commission (PSC) with cooperation of the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (DAFF) on the Comprehensive Agricultural Support Programme that is one of the programmes under the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CASP).

The Implementation Evaluation of the Comprehensive Rural Development Programme (CRDP) has been informed by a wide range of evidence obtained from various sources including: 18 CRDP site case studies (involving 110 community interviews and 52 focus group workshops involving over 500 CRDP participants and beneficiaries), interviews with government officials, a national CRDP participant institutional survey (responded to by 60 participants in CRDP institutions), a literature review of peer reviewed articles and CRDP programme documents, and international case study papers on other rural development programmes in middle income countries.