Standard 18: Learning from and leveraging results during close-out.
Engage participants, partners, donors, host or local governments and other stakeholders in project close-out evaluation and reflection activities with the intent of learning from and leveraging the project.
- Close-out [1]
- Operations and program planning and management [2]Donor engagement and accountability [3]
Key Action 1 [4] | Design a project final evaluation or after‑action review appropriate to project scope and stakeholder information needs. [4] |
Who |
Project manager or chief of party with MEAL lead or individual designated as the "evaluation manager"; CRS and partner project MEAL staff, including any sector leads; head of programming, country representative (as applicable); regional MEAL advisor |
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Key Action 2 [5] | Conduct a final evaluation or after-action review which engages stakeholders in interpreting results and generating learning. [5] |
Who |
Project manager or chief of party and the MEAL lead for the evaluation (with external evaluator if applicable); CRS and partner project team members (including sector specialists, MEAL staff, and operations staff); country program senior management team; regional technical advisors; country program and/or regional business development staff; members of the project governance structure; IDEA staff as applicable |
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Key Action 3 [6] | Share project learning with stakeholders for influence, sustainability, and scale-up of successful project approaches. [6] |
Who |
Project manager or chief of party; project team members; country program MEAL staff; country representative and senior management team; sectoral technical advisors; country program and regional business development staff; IDEA staff if applicable. |
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Key Action 4 [7] | Write a comprehensive final project report that summarizes project achievements and learning. [7] |
Who |
Project manager or chief of party; project team, including programming (MEAL, sector leads, project officers) and operations staff; head of programming; head of operations; country representative as needed; IDEA staff as applicable |
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Key Action 5 [9] | Upload key project learning-related documents to Gateway (and donor databases as applicable) for institutional memory and accessibility and for use in donor engagement. [9] |
Who |
Project manager or chief of party, or IDEA staff (for centrally-managed awards); IDEA or PIQA staff as appropriate. |
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