http://www.fin4dev.org/2015/07/29/optimizing-money-by-learning-from-the-past-an-evaluators-take-on-addis/ Finance for Development: working together to finance global development Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:07:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.3.9 http://www.fin4dev.org/2015/07/29/optimizing-money-by-learning-from-the-past-an-evaluators-take-on-addis/#comment-43 Thu, 24 Sep 2015 18:45:29 +0000 http://www.fin4dev.org/?p=379#comment-43 Absolutely agree that learning from the past is vital, so too “ownership is one of the key drivers of success”. From three post-project close-out evaluations I have done to date, participation in the programming and learning are also vital for communities and local and national partners to take a firm grasp on the project and support its sustainability. Always there are unexpected outcomes, in my experience these have always been good ones, where communities unexpectedly take costs on themselves, or ‘planned’ outcomes foster remarkable ones such as for women in Niger (http://pubs.iied.org/G03661.html?k=cekan). Looking post-project is the best assessment of Return on Investment we have — what was sustained for our original $$?

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