Evaluation of the Mercy Corps Broadening Participation Through Civil Society programme in Iraq, 2013-2015

This was an internal evaluation that I facilitated with two co-evaluators: the team leader of Mercy Corps-Jordan and the BPCS advocacy program manager. (Due to Mercy Corps policy they cannot be named.) We harvested the 148 most significant changes in behaviors, actions or decisions of Iraqi citizens and government entities for strengthening Iraq’s transition to participatory democracy, to which BPCS-supported civil society organisations or BPCS consortium members contributed. Then, the BPCS chief of party, Mercy Corps Iraq senior M&E manager and the BPCS senior program director led Mercy Cops staff in a exercise to analyse and interpret the outcomes in the light of the evaluation questions that guided the exercise.