Keep evaluation questions to a minimum and targeted to the key outcomes of interest. The evaluation scope of work included a total of 12 evaluation questions covering the three projects in the threshold program (Water, Electricity and Regulatory Reform Projects and the District Metering Area Activity). This resulted in a lengthy report that attempted to fully answer each question, instead of presenting a higher-level narrative about interim progress toward the overarching aims of the individual projects and program. Streamlining the number of evaluations to align with the evaluated program’s theory of change and with an emphasis on evaluating the achievement of the overarching objective can help the evaluator to produce clear and actionable evidence that can more easily feed into MCC’s decision-making and practice.
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