Technical advisors are only paid if and when the applications are successful, therefore incentivising them to meet all the requirements from the call for projects. Projects that enter into a compensation agreement with CONAFOR must also enter a services agreement with the technical advisor, who should be involved during the project implementation and should also support the preparation and submission of progress reports to CONAFOR. However, since the programme is funded solely by the Forest Fund, it has budget constraints for administrative and transaction costs to run the scheme, resulting in stretched capacity of the personnel managing the programme locally (Garcia, 2014).