Mid–Term Evaluation of the BNTF 5

Universalia assembled a multi-disciplinary team to undertake the mid-term evaluation of the Caribbean Development Bank’s premier poverty reduction programme, the Basic Needs Trust Fund (Fifth Replenishment). The assignment, which is presently in its final phases, has involved in-depth field missions to all BNTF recipient nations as well as extensive background research and dialogue. The multi-dimensional, but firmly poverty-related, BNTF operates in many ways similar to trust funds; however, its local characteristics and the need to assess the on-going relevance of its work allowed us to combine organizational assessment principles with those that also underlie the assessment of outcomes.