IFC, in collaboration with Switzerland’s SECO, requested JC&A to assess two USD Investment Climate projects with a joint $5.8 million budget that ran between 2007 and 2014 in Azerbaijan. JC&A designed and led a Measure & Evaluation team to assess the different components and Activities, draw lessons, and present strategic recommendations immediately applicable to the ongoing and expansion objectives of the current and future business enabling initiatives. The JC&A team assessed the relevance, efficiency, sustainability, and impacts of 22 key activities undertaken between September 2007 and the summer of 2014.
JC&A prepared successful quantitative and qualitative criteria; assessed and compared the 22 key Activities with the baseline and best international practice, consulted key stakeholders and analyzed results based on structural and external constraints and events; drew results and lessons; and presented lessons-learned and recommendations in a report presented at a high-level workshop.
Azerbaijan, World Bank, 2014
