The purpose of the Continuous Monitoring System (CMS) is to record the progress of the API projects from a regional perspective and to provide timely and reliable information for decision making by the competent government authorities. The CMS is available in the individual project files as well as in the API structured project files.

Individual Projects

The continuous monitoring system module helps monitor the progress of a project throughout its life cycle (based on the Life Cycle Scheduling Methodology) as well as identify any deviation and its causes. This module is made up of two important components:

• The schedule of the project stages and sub-stages: Dates of completion estimated for each of them.

• The identification of the project progress: Sub-stages completed, underway and/or frozen, and the description of any deviation.

Structured Projects

This module presents a series of aggregate indicators resulting from the information recorded in the module of the individual projects included in a structured project. As a matter of fact, one of the main difficulties posed by this kind of projects is that they are made up of a series of individual projects, the advances of which condition and define the overall status of the structured project as a whole. Taking this into account, the system presents an aggregate indicator of the current stage of the structured project and an aggregate indicator of the progress made by such project between two points in time.

There is also an information field to present the overall status of the structured project as well as the reasons accounting for any progress or delay. Furthermore, in the future this module will also include details about the crucial stages, i.e. the critical nodes yet to overcome to make the purpose of the structured project come true, and the management of restrictions.