MCC - Results

Finding Impacts

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Impact
Evaluations

Impact evaluations measure the changes in individual, household or community income and well-being that result from a project.

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Monitoring and Evaluation

Understand how MCC tracks performance on processes, outputs, and outcomes throughout the life of a compact.

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Progress Towards Results

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Compact Programs

Once Compact implementation begins, MCC collaborates with the country partner to finalize the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan. This plan monitors the progress of the projects identified in the compact against performance targets through required quarterly reporting. Additionally, regular implementation status reports and achievements along the way to planned results are disseminated through a variety of MCC publications.

Threshold Programs

After a threshold program implementation begins, MCC collaborates with the country and the program manager (typically USAID) to finalize the program benchmarks and indicators that are reported to MCC in the Results Reporting Table.

Status
Reports

MCC produces quarterly reports on its compacts in development, compacts in implementation and its threshold programs.

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Monitoring
and Evaluation

Understand how MCC tracks performance on processes, outputs, and outcomes throughout the life of a compact.

Discover the M&E plans

MCC
‘Milestones’

Milestones is MCC's quarterly printed newsletter. Delivered toward the end of each quarter, the newsletter includes major achievements, project round-up from countries around the world, and staff perspectives.

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Slideshows

See photos of MCC's poverty reduction programs at work throughout the world.

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Congressional
Notifications

CN's are documents delivered to the U.S. Congress to inform, advise, and consult with both the relevant authorizing and appropriating committees.

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MCC’s
Blogs

Read MCC's blogs: the CEO blog on MCC's programs and results and firsthand accounts of MCC's impact in the field written by MCC staff.

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Success
Stories

Meet people directly benefiting from MCC poverty reduction programs.

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Planning for Results

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Compact Programs

Countries identify the constraints to their country’s economic growth and use those as the basis for determining the projects defined in the country’s compact proposal. MCC collaborates with the country to study the cost-effectiveness of the projects outlined in the proposal, focusing on the ability of these projects to sustainably increase the incomes of that country’s citizens.

This information is translated into a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan for monitoring progress as the projects are implemented and evaluating whether they have achieved the targeted results once they are complete.

Threshold Programs

During the development of a threshold program, MCC provides a country’s government with an MCC Indicator Analysis. This analysis identifies the policies and events that may have affected the country’s standing on the MCC eligibility indicators, specifically focusing on those indicators where the country fell below the median.

Although the Indicator Analysis is not prescriptive, it provides a roadmap for developing a Threshold Country Plan targeting the weaknesses highlighted by the MCC eligibility indicators. The partner government defines clear objectives and benchmarks to track program progress.

Beneficiary
Analysis

Beneficiary Analysis is most commonly used to estimate the impact of projects on the poor, but it can be more broadly by measuring impact on other populations.

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Economic
Rates of Return

MCC is making available its Economic Rate of Return (ERR) data via interactive, downloadable spreadsheets.

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Monitoring and Evaluation

Understand how MCC tracks performance on processes, outputs, and outcomes throughout the life of a compact.

Discover the M&E plans

Impact
Evaluations

Impact evaluations measure the changes in individual, household or community income and well-being that result from a project.

Understand impact evaluations

Fact
Sheets

Discover easy-to-understand information—prepared as 2 to 5 page PDFs—about MCC, its projects, its country partners, and its programs.

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Overview

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Overview

The MCC places great emphasis on achieving and measuring results in both its Compact programs and Threshold programs. MCC maintains this focus throughout these programs, concentrating on:

identifying activities that have the greatest promise of poverty reduction through growth,
measuring progress during implementation, and
learning from its experiences.

Planning
for Results

For compact programs, countries identify the constraints to their country’s economic growth and use those as the basis for determining the projects defined in the country’s compact proposal. For threshold programs, MCC provides a country’s government with an MCC Indicator Analysis. This analysis identifies the policies and events that may have affected the country’s standing on the MCC eligibility indicators, specifically focusing on those indicators where the country fell below the median.

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Beneficiary Analysis

Economic Rates of Return

Fact Sheets

And more

Progress
towards Results

For both compact programs and threshold programs, MCC collaborates with a country to finalize program benchmarks and to create a Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Plan. Regular reporting is required and other achievements are reported throughout the project lifecycle.

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Monitoring and Evaluation

Quarterly Status Reports

MCC's Blogs

And more

Finding
Impacts

MCC and our country partners hire independent organizations to conduct rigorous impact evaluations for a majority of its activities. These evaluations help explain what might have happened without MCC’s investment and help identify how MCC’s contribution reduced in its partner countries. These innovative impact evaluations provide insight to help MCC improve and enhance its work. community.

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Impact Evaluation

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Cumulative Disbursements

as of June 30, 2009

Cumulative Disbursements:
$1,109.55 million

Quarterly Disbursements

as of June 30, 2009

Quarterly Disbursements:
$195.07 million

MCC - Results

Finding Impacts

Impact Evaluations

Monitoring and Evaluation

Progress Towards Results

Compact Programs

Threshold Programs

Status Reports

Monitoring and Evaluation

MCC ‘Milestones’

Slideshows

Congressional Notifications

MCC’s Blogs

Success Stories

Planning for Results

Compact Programs

Threshold Programs

Beneficiary Analysis

Economic Rates of Return

Monitoring and Evaluation

Impact Evaluations

Fact Sheets

Overview

Overview

Planning for Results

Learn about

Progress towards Results

Learn about

Finding Impacts

Learn about

Cumulative Disbursements

Quarterly Disbursements

Impact
Evaluations

Status
Reports

Monitoring
and Evaluation

MCC
‘Milestones’

Congressional
Notifications

MCC’s
Blogs

Success
Stories

Beneficiary
Analysis

Economic
Rates of Return

Impact
Evaluations

Fact
Sheets

Planning
for Results

Progress
towards Results

Finding
Impacts