Formative evaluation is critical to improving a technical assistance program and can be gathered from many difference sources including participants, clients, and observers. Cost-sharing helps organizations to value the technical assistance they receive. It is generally necessary to create a demand for technical assistance. One way to accomplish this is by gradually reducing the degree to which it is subsidized. One outcome of technical assistance should be that an organization has a plan in place for meeting its future technical assistance needs.
Organizational development is a never-ending process.
The most important follow-up to technical assistance is support for an organization as it endeavors to meet future technical assistance needs on its own. Such support can take many different forms.