Project documentation detailing start and stop dates for key activities and decisions in each location helps inform when to collect data and can improve data analysis. At times there can be a lack of clarity around when key outputs occurred and differences in when outputs occurred across program areas. Detailed timelines of implementation rollout are needed to ensure the evaluation allows for sufficient exposure periods. Implementers should track and document when key activities and outputs occur in each location to enable more detailed analysis of outcomes around the key outputs. When there are multiple activities occurring at different times, gaining access to multiple years of data can help inform which activities may have contributed to key results. In the Registry System and Process Survey evaluation, the detailed timing of when various offices opened, records were digitized, and the electronic Property Registry System became operational helped provide a more nuanced understanding of results in Choibalsan that could not be seen from the broader level analysis. Later compacts have started documenting key activities and decisions via Project Description documents such as in Burkina Faso. Incorporating this sort of documentation into future compacts could aid in bringing evaluators up to speed and ensure the best evaluation design.
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