this initiative utilises consultants to evaluate projects and present them to potential investors this represents an innovative form of institution building that is confronting directly the difficulties that investors face in assessing the risk and return of new projects and committing to involvement in smaller scale initiatives for some there are clear economic objectives such programmes are guided by conventional rationales for intervention such as market failure for example correcting information asymmetries in knowledge about market and technological development opportunities while for other programmes the economic aims are connected to broader social objectives and the needs of particular groups and areas these programmes are not just about market failure