The project “Capacity Building for Planning Reform (CDPR)” aimed at strengthening the capacity of selected national and sub national governments in improved planning and budgeting.
The Mid-term Review provided answers to "how" and "why" questions and was essential for assessing the value of the achieved results and of the implementation process of the whole intervention.
The review served the following functions:

• To support steering. On the basis of in-depth analyses, the review offered useful recommendations that are based on data (evidence-based).
• To contribute to learning. By analysing the development process, the review allowed to explain what works, what does not work and why, and to thus draw lessons for other interventions or for the elaboration of new policies, strategies and programmes.
• Accountability to the donor, partner and other internal actors by supplying an external assessment of the progress made and the results achieved.