Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (M&E&L) Initiative in El Salvador

el salvadorME&A implements the five-year Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (M&E&L) initiative for the USAID Mission in El Salvador. ME&A’s team provides USAID/El Salvador and potentially other missions in the region continued performance monitoring, verification, GIS services and evaluation support to measure program impact, results and achievements.

In addition, M&E&L can be used to contract individual or longitudinal studies, assessments, surveys or other related services relevant to bilateral and regional programs.

M&E&L is made up of six components: Performance Monitoring, Performance and Impact Evaluations, Geographic Information System, Research, Assessments, and Data Analysis, Knowledge Management and Learning, and Training.

The project’s primary goal is to enhance the Mission’s monitoring, evaluation and learning capability and to ensure empirical evidence for programming, learning and adapting. ME&A also provides regular periodic reviews of specific activities, as requested by USAID/El Salvador, and as requested by other USAID Missions in the USAID/Central America and Mexico (CAM) regional program

USAID/El Salvador awarded this task order to ME&A in 2016 under the Policy, Planning and Learning-Learning, Evaluation and Research (PPL-LER) IDIQ Contract to provide evaluation, monitoring and assessment services for USAID Missions and Offices worldwide.

M&E&L Activities:

Evaluations
  • Place-based strategy (PBS) for citizen security
  • USAID’s Place-Based Justice (PBJ) program
  • Final Performance Evaluation of the Regional Climate Change Program (RCCP)
  • El Salvador Education Sector Assessment
  • Ex-post Performance Evaluation of USAID's Fiscal Policy Development and the Mid-term Performance Evaluation of USAID/Mexico’s Promoting Justice Activity (PROJUST)
  • Baseline for Indicators Related to Compliance for Regulations for Access to Public Information in 13 Municipalities of El Salvador with Government Integrity Project
  • Baseline Study of the Higher Education for Economic Growth Initiative
  • Network of Women Leaders in Higher Education Institutes with Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics careers with RTI International
  • Mid-Term Performance Evaluation of Education for Children and Youth Activity (ECY)
  • Final Performance Evaluation of the Regional Integrated Trade and Food Security Strategy 2011-2017
Learning & Training
  • Gender Training Session attended by participants representing 13 of USAID’s 17 active projects in El Salvador
  • SPSS Two level training with participants from: OIM, CRS, GLASSWING, FEDISAL, RTI, FEDISAL, CHECCHI, ASI, CRISTOSAL, PALLADIUM, PADF