The post monitoring and evaluation visit was conducted by the NC and one member of NSC on July 3, 2003, with summarized sustainability as follows:

Two out of 30 project members were visited where discussion/interview was conducted and actual site condition briefly witnessed. It was found that the practice of re-vegetation in the fields was kept on and had influence upon a numbers of community members ,especially teachers? group in Phol District. Many of these teachers started working hand-in-hand with community members. They talked about trees and planted them on their soils. With these new trees standing in one?s field, notorious post-harvest field burning was forcibly limited, for fear that uncontrollable fire would ravage the trees resulting in dispute.

Following the GEF/SGP activities, the project managed to further get fund from the Thai government. The fund was used to equip a compost facility comprising a depot and set of equipment With the facility, compost in powder form would be turned into pellets making the compost easier for use and sales.

To some extent, the project is financially viable. The rotating fund of the project is found still effective. Moreover, the project has initiated community market for their products every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. But due to time constraint , the visiting team had not witnessed such a market.

It has also been found that two other completed projects THA-98-G25 and THA-00-G05 in the vicinity which applied similar approach had produced the similar impact.