MCC and Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) Monitoring & Evaluation teams should identify early on, in collaboration with stakeholders, ways to collect gender disaggregated Indicator Tracking Table (ITT) data for key outcome and output indicators. ITT data on beneficiaries was not gender disaggregated, which limited the evaluation’s gender analysis. For example, greater efforts early on may have ensured that solar home kit window grantees reported data on whether beneficiary households were male- or female-headed. This is particularly challenging for grant facility projects where grantees have more autonomy over their data collection plans, meaning that MCAs should clarify expectations from the beginning.
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