Monitoring & Evaluation
| Projects | Estimated Beneficiaries | Estimated Benefits |
|---|---|---|
| Human Development Project | 454,965 | $116 million |
| Productive Development Project | 55,000 | $95 million |
| Connectivity Project | 644,190 | $319 million |
| Total | 901,207 | $530 million |
These estimates are based in the best, currently available, information and may be updated if new, reliable, data become available.
The total beneficiary count for the Compact may not be the sum of the different project beneficiary counts because of overlaps between Projects. In other words, some beneficiaries benefit from more than one project but are counted only once in the total beneficiary count.
Total benefits expected from each project are obtained from the ERR analysis MCC conducts during due diligence. Beneficiary counts, although consistent with benefit streams identified in the economic analysis, are not necessarily derived from these models (which are concerned with costs and benefits rather than beneficiaries). MCC estimates and reports expected beneficiaries when sufficiently reliable data exists to support the estimation. If such evidence is lacking, no estimation is attempted, resulting in an underestimation of projected beneficiaries for the Compact. Calculating the amount of benefit per beneficiary would therefore give an overestimation and can be misleading.
The El Salvador Compact directs $461 million of strategic investments to the Northern Zone of the country to strengthen human and physical capital, increase production and employment, and reduce the cost and time of travel.
| Human Development Project | Productive Development Project | Connectivity Project |
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Objective: Increase human and physical capital of residents of the Northern Zone to take advantage of employment and business opportunities by:
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Objective: Increase production and employment in the Northern Zone through:
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Objective: Reduce travel cost and time within the Northern Zone, with the rest of the country, and within the region by:
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Projected Results by End of Compact
The El Salvador Compact aims to achieve the results below by the end of the Compact in September 2012:
- Reduce the poverty rate in the Northern Zone by 8 percentage points by 2017 (this targets extends 5 years beyond the end of the Compact;
- Increase electricity coverage in the Northern Zone from 70 percent to a minimum of 97 percent, and
- Reduce the time required to travel from Guatemala to Honduras through the Northern Zone by 50 percent.
Results to Date
Information on results to date is available in the Table of Key Performance Indicators (a subset of the full set monitored under the El Salvador Monitoring and Evaluation Plan). The full set of performance indicators is detailed in the Monitoring and Evaluation Plan.
Evaluation Framework
In addition to careful monitoring of implementation performance and measurement of preliminary results, MCC is funding independent evaluations that will assess what would have happened in the absence of the MCC investments and measure the gains in incomes that can be attributed specifically to MCC-funded activities. Read more about the evaluations of the education, water and sanitation, electrification, productive development, and connectivity activities.