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Risk assessment and mitigation strategies for the project. Technical assistance/development cooperation projects are often implemented in complicated and challenging contexts. Such projects usually are designed to address complex and multi-dimensional problems. It is also important to recognize that the majority of such projects face significant challenges during their implementation. However, some of these are foreseeable and recurrent (for example, election processes and changes in the management and staff of the project partners, especially the Ministry of Labor). In this regard, sound risk assessment and mitigation measures need to be established in the design stage, and these should be updated during project implementation. Additionally, in complex situations it may be necessary to reformulate the project to adapt to the changing context. This requires significant flexibility from both the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau of International Labor Affairs and from the grantees, in allowing for relevant and necessary adjustments when necessary.