It is critical to understand the plans of other donors when their activities directly affect the benefits of the MCC program. MCC assumed that rehabilitating the water pipeline would be a direct complement to other donor activities. MCC believed that the World Bank and the African Development Bank would invest in the water transmission lines. However, investment in the water network did not happen. MCC built the pipeline with increased capacity under the assumption that more water would be able to be treated and put into the distribution network. As demonstrated by the evaluation, that additional capacity is not currently being utilized. MCC should have better coordinated with other donors to understand how they were planning to support the Liberia Water and Sewer Corporation (LWSC). The pipeline was designed to save money for the utility, which it did. However, the cost saving generated by the project did not prove to be sufficient to support maintenance. MCC should have had better coordination with other donors to understand what kinds of needs there were at LWSC for them to maintain the pipeline and to support getting more and cleaner water to Monrovia.
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