Clearly articulate program logic. Program design must be sufficiently detailed to fully understand the process by which MCC’s inputs (e.g. ADA grants) lead to poverty reduction through economic growth. In other words, clear, detailed program logics for this type of grant program would help target beneficiaries and determine whether beneficiaries’ expected outcomes were actually realized. While the early ADA documents listed a number of positive outcomes that were expected, there was no clear theory of change by which the activity could lead to these outcomes. In addition to not being clearly elaborated during project design, the logic also did not adapt as the project changed course during the process of implementation. Consequently, the linkage between different components of the activity were unclear and the impacts of the activities did not allow the evaluation to specifically compare expected outcomes to actual outcomes.
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