Kann let 2, OTI/Burma final evaluation report

The findings highlight the strategic approach, relevance, and impact of KL2 efforts to deepen and sustain the ongoing reform process in Burma and provide a concise explanation of achievements and lessons learned. The report is intended to inform future United States Government (USG) assistance, primarily the two new USAID/Burma Mission programs. Using a highly effective management strategy that involved empowerment of program development officers and grant managers, Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI) implemented 233 Kann Let 2 activities, having spent $15.9 million, as of September 2018. From its desk review and extensive field work (including 98 interviews), the Final Evaluation Team found that the KL2 program identified the critical impediments standing in the way of reform in Burma, supported the work of groups aiming to build intercommunal harmony, expanded inclusion in the formal and informal peace processes, helped to foster and defend the space of civil society, and contributed substantially to US foreign policy. The evaluation recommends that future USAID assistance in Burma continue to support as much flexible, well-informed, locally-contextualized programming as possible, while retaining and utilizing KL2’s significant analytical skills to address the barriers to advancing reform and peace.