The significant investment by the Compact to ensure the achievement of the Participatory Land Use Planning Activity (PLUP) targets may result in interventions that are too expensive for the government to take to scale. MCA-I and MCC are considering ways to improve the efficiency of PLUP activities, based on the differing implementation models employed by the various PLUP implementers. The experience so far indicates that targeting local, rather than international, firms to manage PLUP implementation would have been a more cost-effective option.
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