The activities described in this report came about as a result of a cabled request from the USAID Mission in Jakarta (No. 18964, 22 December 1982) in which the Mission expressed its wish to "draw upon WASH services to assist CARE to develop a scope of work for the evaluation of accomplishments to date of the CARE rural water project (underscoring added)." As a result of this cable WASH Order of Technical Direction No. 136 was issued on 10 February 1983 to enable the project to send a consultant to Indonesia.