7.3 Inspection, payment, monitoring and evaluation

Successful universal access and service (UAS) programmes need the following:

• The supervision of the implementation of individual UAS projects and the inspection of milestone achievements by a technical auditor for payment release, as discussed in Section 7.3.1;
• The monitoring of UAS projects which is helped by reporting requirements by the UAS service provider in order to have an early warning system of problems and sufficient data on which to evaluate projects later, elaborated in Section 7.3.2; and
• The evaluation of individual project performance in terms of their impact as well as a strategic review and evaluation of the UAS programme and Universal Access and Service Fund (UASF) performance outlined in Section 7.3.3.