Final review of the intervention “Institutional support project to the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Local Government (MATDRE) for the strategic steering of decentralization and deconcentration”. The aim of the project was to make the planning, management, cooperation, technical support and monitoring –evaluation activities of the Ministry of Territorial Administration and Decentralization within the framework of the implementation of the national Decentralization/deconcentration more effective, efficient and sustainable.
The purpose of the review was to provide answers to "how"- and "why"-questions, assess the value of the results achieved and of the whole implementation process of the intervention.
The review aimed:

• To support steering. On the basis of in-depth analyses, the review offered useful recommendations that are 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.