Trade capacity building evaluation methodologies and indicators

Its purpose is to guide USAID program designers and evaluation teams in evaluating TCB programs and handling methodological and other challenges. It offers suggestions on useful analytical typologies for further subdividing the three main categories, and explains how indicators in the TCB Indicator Database relate to these typologies. That database provides a framework for designers and evaluators to think about how to measure performance for a wide range of TCB assistance programs. It organizes TCB categories, subcategories, specific program objectives and types, relevant indicators, and data sources into a searchable tool, and allows users to add and update TCB categories. The revised TCB Project Database, provided along with the Indicator Database, covers only export promotion and customs projects and combines multiyear projects into one multiyear record searchable by project type and country. In this manual, we present an overview of frequently asked evaluation and methodology questions and an approach to evaluations, and address the specific questions and challenges posed by evaluating export promotion, customs, and negotiation assistance projects. (Author abstract, modified)