Evaluation Briefs

MCC Evaluation Briefs summarize the key results and learning from MCC’s independent evaluations in a user-friendly, four-page document. They distill key findings and lessons in an accessible way while also pointing to MCC’s publicly available information about our investments. Evaluation Briefs are co-produced by the independent evaluator and MCC’s Monitoring and Evaluation division, maintaining MCC’s commitment to objective, independent reporting on program results. Each Evaluation Brief includes a program overview, key findings, evaluation questions, detailed findings, MCC learning, and evaluation methods.

  • Improving Water, Sanitation, and Drainage in Lusaka, Zambia

    Read this Evaluation Brief to learn the results of MCC’s Zambia Compact Water Supply, Sewerage, and Drainage Project, which aimed to rehabilitate and extend infrastructure and strengthen the institutional capacity of water utility.

  • Reforming the Water Sector in Sierra Leone

    Kiosk 4, operated by Crystal Clear Water, which serves customers in the Aberdeen district metering area around Kincard Street. The kiosk has two 10,000-liter tanks and two faucets for customers to fill their water tanks.

    Read this Evaluation Brief to learn the results MCC’s Sierra Leone Threshold Program which focused on strengthening regulatory systems, improving water utility operations, and increasing access to clean and reliable water in greater Freetown. 

  • Extending Piped Water and Sewer Coverage in Cabo Verde

    Read this Evaluation Brief to learn the results of a project from MCC’s Cabo Verde II Compact that aimed to improve water and sanitation service delivery, increase households’ productivity, increase sector funding, and make government spending more efficient.

  • Supporting high-value agriculture in Moldova

    An irrigation system waters farmland in Moldova

    Read this Evaluation Brief to learn the results of a project from MCC’s Moldova Compact that aimed to increase rural incomes by stimulating growth in high-value agriculture and to catalyze future investments in high-value agriculture.

  • Improving water supply to the water utility in Liberia

    Aerial view of the dam at Mt. Coffee Hydropower Plant, with a reservoir on one side and the St. Paul River on the other side.

    Read this Evaluation Brief to learn the final results of the Water Pipeline Sub-Activity, a water infrastructure component of MCC’s Liberia Compact, that aimed to improve water supply in Liberia.

  • Modernizing the Small-scale Fisheries Value Chain in Morocco

    Fishing boats on the shore in Morocco

    Read this Evaluation Brief to learn the results of a project from MCC’s Morocco Compact that aimed to improve the quality of the catch, maintain the value chain, increase access to local and export markets, and assure the sustainable use of fish resources.

  • Supporting Sustainable Land Management in Malawi

    Shrubbery lines a river with numerous rocks in it under a blue sky

    Read this Evaluation Brief to learn the final results of a project from MCC’s Malawi Compact that aimed to increase efficiency of hydropower generation by improving sustainable land and natural resource management and gender equality in the Shire River Basin.

  • Reforming the water sector in Sierra Leone

    Two large water tanks behind fencing.

    Read this Evaluation Brief to learn about the interim results from MCC’s Sierra Leone Threshold Program which focused on strengthening regulatory systems, improving water utility operations, and increasing access to clean and reliable water in greater Freetown.

  • Monitoring of Municipal Water Quality in Lusaka, Zambia

    A walkway in between two water pipelines leading to a facility on the edge of a water source

    Read this Evaluation Brief to learn the results of MCC’s Zambia Compact water supply, sewerage, and drainage activities, which aimed to improve water quality in Lusaka’s distribution system and decrease the prevalence of water-related diseases.

  • Improving Irrigation and Land Rights in Senegal

    Read this Evaluation Brief to learn the final results of a project from MCC’s Senegal Compact that aimed to improve the productivity of the agricultural sector in certain agricultural-dependent areas of northern Senegal.

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