Partnership for growth in the Philippines : 2011 - 2016 : evaluation report

The evaluation used document review and interview data to answer three questions: 1. In what ways did the PFG approach – as implemented in the Philippines – differ from the previous U.S. government (USG) approach to development in the Philippines, and how was that difference reflected in: a. Bilateral cooperation and communication between the USG and the Government of the Philippines (GPH)? b. Cooperation and communication between and within the USG agencies active under the PFG framework? 2. How did the PFG approach influence the design, implementation, and development outcomes of the USG and GPH projects in the PFG portfolio? a. How useful was the PFG in strengthening GPH capacity? 3. How appropriate and useful was the constraints analysis for the overall PFG approach? a. Were the constraints analysis and the selection of constraint themes for the PFG made properly? The evaluation concluded that PFG differed from previous USG development approaches in the Philippines due to the jointly executed constraints analysis informing a bilateral development plan with significant GPH buy-in and cooperation. Alignment with the GPH and establishment of bilateral oversight institutions contributed to sustainable programmatic successes. PFG’s effect could have been broader if supported by a larger portion of the USG development assistance budget, and the monitoring framework was not put in place until later in the PFG process. These two factors should be corrected in future initiatives of this type.