FORMATIVE ACTIVITY 34: PROJECT EVALUATION Answer all the questions below US242914 SO4 AC3 [Total: 18] 1. In your own words distinguish between project evaluation and impact evaluation, citing examples to support your inderstanding. (6) 2. Do you agree that an evaluation gap exists in public sector projects? Why, or why not? (2) 3. What are government, state-owned companies, departments, and municipalities doing to ensure that project evaluation and project impact evaluation take place? (2) 4. Read the following mini case study and then answer the questions that follow Conditional Cash Transfer Programme in Mexico "In the 1990s, the government of Mexico launched an innovatve conditional cash transfer (CCT) programme called 'Progresa'. Its objectives were to provide poor households with shor-term income support and to create incentives to investments in children's human capital, primarly by providing cash transfers to mothers in poor households, conditional to their children regularly attending school and vising a health centre. "From the beginning, the government considered that it was essental to monitor and evaluate the programme. The programmes officials contracted a group of researchers to design an impact evaluation and buld it into the programme expansion at the same time that it was rolled out successively to the partipating communties. "The 2000 presidential election led to a change of party in power, but in 2001, Progresa's external evaluators presented their findings to the newly elected administration. The results of the programme were impressive: they showed that the programme was well targeted to the poor and had engendered promising changes in households' human capital Shultz (2004) found that the programme signficantly improved school enrolment by an average of 0.7 additonal years of schooling. Gertler (2004) found that the incidence of liness in children decreased by 23 percent, while adults reported a 19 percent reduction in the number of sick or disablity days. "The successful evaluation of the Progresa programme and its attending projects contributed to rapid adoption of CCTs around the world, as well as Mexico's adoption of legislation requining all social projects to be evaluated