Annual Report 2014-2015

This report provides a comprehensive overview of SHARE's work from August 2014 to July 2015.

It has been a period of winding down work under the original five year contract and preparing its legacy, but also of waiting for decisions to be made on a three year extension of SHARE. While maintaing current partnerships and steering projects to a timely conclusion, we were also planning for a new SHARE, designing an extension based on lessons learnt, and investigating which new partners to bring on board. It was not only the result of our experience but also DFID’s wish that the extension into Phase II should be different from the original Phase I. Thus we found ourselves discussing the new contract, designing a new consortium, engaging with new partners, and trying to bring the old programme to dock safely and precisely in terms of timing and expenditure. Not the least of our challenges was that for most of this time, while it was 75% sure that SHARE would continue into 2015, we could not take that for granted. We were, as they say, building planes in the air.

The report was submitted to DFID in July 2015.