A Look at Two Central American Compacts: Reports from Nicaragua and Honduras

With bittersweet pleasure, I post the final two MCA Monitor Field Reports from Sarah Lucas. Over the past 2 years, Sarah has traveled throughout Africa and Latin America capturing the successes and challenges faced by the MCA and partner countries in implementing a new foreign assistance model. Her insights and reflections from the field have been tremendously useful to our Washington-based analysis and monitoring of the MCA. As we often say, true innovation will be demonstrated by institutional change and tangible development gains in the countries themselves. Sarah’s ability to capture the reality on the ground and turn it into practical lessons for enhancing the program’s effectiveness was a tremendous contribution to the MCA Monitor Program. We hope to continue the series with a new contributor soon. In the meantime, enjoy the last two country reports on Nicaragua and Honduras, look out for her last submission compiling the lessons from seven countries, and join me in giving Sarah a huge "bravo" on her contribution to the success of the MCA.Sarah can now be found at the Millennium Challenge Corporation, where she will be tackling many of the implementation challenge issues she covered in her reports. Smart group, that MCC!