Lesson Learned

MCC divisions should coordinate baseline data collection activities to ensure the resulting data meets each division’s needs and to prevent duplicative data collection.

• Burkina Faso Compact
• Diversified Agriculture and Water Management
• Agriculture and Irrigation

MCC divisions should coordinate baseline data collection activities to ensure the resulting data meets each division’s needs and to prevent duplicative data collection. This is especially the case when there is significant overlap between PAPs and beneficiaries, such as in the Water Management and Irrigation Activity. The ESP division collected data for the resettlement action plan. It was hoped that this data would be integrated into the independent evaluation. However, this data missed critical information that is needed for evaluation purposes. The evaluator’s baseline report documents those survey’s limitations. The survey was designed as a stratified representative sample, but there were no sampling weights to make it representative. The baseline report lacked detail needed to replicate sampling. Substantial survey non-response and insufficient information on sampling process prevented the evaluator from addressing attrition appropriately.