It may not be worth evaluating smaller or side activities that either do not directly link to the objective or were not designed as standalone activities. The peatlands portfolio was not a distinct portfolio of grants conceived at the onset of the GP Project; rather, after the project was designed and implemented, a subset of grants that had some peatland components were grouped together to create the peatland portfolio. In this case, the link between these grant components and the project objective was not very clear. At MCC, M&E is often tasked with determining how to fit the activity (or grant components) into the broader program logic to separately evaluate the smaller investment (in addition to evaluating the overarching program). In these instances, it may not make sense to evaluate the smaller components of a larger project or activity.
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