Lesson Learned

The timing of the quantitative data collection in conjunction with the qualitative data collection should have been spaced out more so that the quantitative findings could have informed the questions in the qualitative data collection.

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

The timing of the quantitative data collection in conjunction with the qualitative data collection should have been spaced out more so that the quantitative findings could have informed the questions in the qualitative data collection. Because the timing of the qualitative data collection did not allow for analyzing the quantitative data first, the evaluation was not able to determine why farmers responded to the incentives in the Agricultural Development Project but not in other projects. MCC is addressing this lesson by spacing out the quantitative and qualitative data collection in the Moldova irrigation evaluation, and using the final report of the Senegal irrigation evaluation to dig deeper into the qualitative findings to understand why farmers change behavior.