The South Asia Regional Trade Integration Programme (SARTIP) was a six-year (2012-2018) initiative designed to support three multilateral organisations namely the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the International Finance Corporation to promote trade and integration in South Asia. This was a first generation of Department for International Development (DFID) funded project on innovative approaches to regional coordination in South Asia working across trade, investment and regional energy and water development.
International Economics, in consortium with Oxford Policy Management, carried out the project’s process evaluation, demonstrating accountability of whether the programme is on track to meet its outcome, generating learning regarding for supporting this programme and subsequent programmes.