Haiti KONBIT Mid-Term Evaluation
CLIENT: USAID
LOCATION: Latin America, Caribbean
EXPERTISE: Economic Growth
SERVICE: Monitoring & Evaluation
The Kaizen Company conducted a mid-term evaluation to support ongoing collaboration and learning for the Konbit project team, based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. The Konbit project is a five-year (2015-2020) USAID-funded cooperative agreement, designed as a Local Solutions project. It aims to strengthen local actors – and the systems in which they operate – as a critical tool to implement more efficient and effective funding with more sustainable and impactful development results. The Konbit project is being implemented by the company Papyrus, S.A., a local firm based in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
Kaizen was selected by Papyrus to conduct an internal mid-term evaluation at the end of the second year of Konbit programming. The evaluation was intended to assess the degree to which the Konbit Cooperative Agreement is on track to achieve its intended outcomes and identify what is needed to achieve targets in the project’s remaining three years.
The evaluation was conducted from September 25 – October 20, 2017. During the field visit, the team conducted semi-structured, in-depth interviews with 35 key informants and stakeholders from USAID, Capacity Development Service Providers (CDSPs), and USAID awardee organizations, prime implementer home office and project staff, sub-awardees, and external stakeholders. The team followed up to provide facilitation of Konbit’s Year 3 Work Planning Retreat, supporting integration of the Konbit team’s prioritized findings and recommendations into the Year 3 work plan. This work planning session also served as a means to reality check and further validate initial findings and recommendations, as part of the discussion process. Through the evaluation and work planning retreat, the Kaizen team provided guidance, advice and strategic thinking to Papyrus as a local organization, as well as the program itself, based on Kaizen’s expertise in Local Solutions.
Kaizen completed a Mid-Term Evaluation Report for the Papyrus leadership which included Kaizen’s findings and conclusions from the evaluation.