Lesson Learned

When program “treatment” and/or implementation occurs prior to EIF or early in the program implementation period, independent evaluator assessments of implementation progress can be useful and can be used to inform programmatic decision-making and budget reallocations.

• Liberia Compact
• Mt. Coffee and Capacity Building and Sector Reform
• Energy

When program “treatment” and/or implementation occurs prior to EIF or early in the program implementation period, independent evaluator assessments of implementation progress can be useful and can be used to inform programmatic decision-making and budget reallocations. This baseline/interim evaluation was timed at a point where other activities had already started and therefore contained both data establishing a baseline for certain outcomes, as well as interim findings assessing progress-to-date on implementation.  MCC was then able to use and learn from these early findings to support project implementation.   Going forward, MCC may consider collecting interim evaluation data early in the implementation period to capture early learning.