Grantee monitoring data: The grantees’ farmer monitoring systems need strengthening if they are to be used as secondary data sources for evaluations. The evaluators had concerns about the reliability of some of the data reported by the grantees. Relying on farmer recall to supplement grantee monitoring data introduces bias into results measurement. For future agricultural interventions of this type, MCC should investigate whether strengthening of monitoring systems should be included in the investment activities.
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