MCC was founded with a focused mission to reduce poverty by promoting economic growth. MCC’s model is based on a set of core principles essential for development to take place and for development assistance to be effective—good governance, country ownership, focus on results, and transparency.
The MCC Principles into Practice series offers a frank look at what it takes to make these principles operational in the projects and activities in which MCC invests. The learning captured in this series will inform MCC’s ongoing efforts to refine and strengthen its own model and development practice. MCC hopes this series will allow others to benefit from and build upon MCC’s lessons.
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Principles into Practice: Focus on Results
MCC has set a high standard among the development community for its approach to results. MCC’s results framework reflects a commitment to technically rigorous, systematic and transparent methods of projecting, tracking & evaluating the impacts of its programs.
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Principles into Practice: Country Ownership
Country ownership embodies partnership, where countries consult with their citizens and civil society to design and implement programs within an MCC framework built on a focused mandate, accountability, transparency, and impact.
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Principles into Practice: Irrigated Agriculture
Many MCC partner countries have prioritized irrigated agriculture projects to increase rural incomes by improving agricultural productivity and access to markets, and enhance food security by expanding local food supplies and creating new income opportunities.
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Principles into Practice: Property Rights and Land Policy
Many MCC partner countries have sought MCC investments in property rights and land policy because of the central role that land, natural resources and other real property assets can play in economic development.
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Principles into Practice: Gender Equality and Poverty Reduction through Growth
Gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls are widely recognized as key dimensions of human progress. Most development institutions and partner governments acknowledge this in laws, policies, institutional structures, and programming.
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Principles into Practice: Impact Evaluations of Agriculture Projects
This MCC-USAID collaboration looks at the value, challenges and lessons of doing impact evaluation in the agriculture sector.
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Principles into Practice: Country Selectivity
MCC works with a limited number of well-governed poor countries and is the only donor agency in the world to base country selection so heavily—and so transparently—on public, third-party policy performance data.
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Principles into Practice: Transparency
Through its latest Principles into Practice paper, MCC discusses how it has put the principle of transparency into practice and what it has learned about implementing this fundamental tenet of aid effectiveness during its first 10 years of experience.
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Principles into Practice: Lessons from MCC’s Investments in Roads
This paper explores MCC's experience to-date in designing, implementing, monitoring, and evaluating roads investments around the world.
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Principles into Practice: Training Service Delivery for Jobs & Productivity
MCC has commited over $340 million in support of Technical and Vocational Education and Training programming across eleven programs to help people develop the skills demanded by the labor market to increase employment and spur economic growth.
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Principles into Practice: Lessons from Evaluations of MCC Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) Programs
This paper reflects on $1.4 billion in MCC WASH investments across 13 countries and synthesizes the results and learning generated from 17 independent evaluations of these WASH programs.
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