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May 21, 2007
Cross Cutting Lessons from Seven Millennium Challenge Account Countries
Posted by Sheila Herrling at 12:05 PM
In a new brief, Lessons from Seven Countries: Reflections on the Millennium Challenge Account, Sarah Lucas, former senior associate for research and policy at CGD, draws together observations and reflections on the common key themes, successes and lessons that emerge from her country reports. Her analysis is based on visits to seven MCA countries conducted between July 2005 and March 2007 on behalf of the MCA Monitor. These visits caught glimpses of different aspects of the MCA experience including compact development, compact implementation and the threshold program. Lessons and observations from these countries fall in to four categories: successes of the MCC approach, key challenges going forward, big-picture lessons on aid-effectiveness, and specific operational recommendations.
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Perhaps the CGD should advertise clearly that this report was written (as I understand) by a then-to-be staff person of the MCA. The report lacks a hard hitting objectivity and has an outright blurred vision of the relevancy, originality and capability of the MCA. The report is not without merit, but borders on the naive in its exaggeration of the occasional favorable impact of the MCA. In any case, good try.
Posted by: S. McGaughey at May 22, 2007 07:22 PM
Thanks for your comment, S. McGaughey. Indeed, we specifically linked this blog to my earlier posting clearly announcing Sarah's departure to the MCC. So, no intent to hide that fact. That said, I think the report is an entirely unbiased collection (in fact, mainly a reprinting) of lessons, challenges and innovations already captured in the individual field reports.
Posted by: Sheila Herrling at May 24, 2007 11:12 AM