MCA-T Signed Implementing Entity Agreement with National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on January 18, 2010 for the purpose of gathering baseline data necessary covering the water project components in the Tanzania Compact package using the National Panel Survey (NPS).

In the picture above, MCA-T Chief Executive Officer Mr. Bernard Mchomvu (2nd L) and
Director General of National Bureau of Statistics, Ms. Albina Chuwa(1st R) signing Implementing Entity Agreement.

Others in the picture from (R-L), Dr Merdard Kalemani MCA-T General Counsel; Millennium Challenge Corporation Resident Country Director, Mr. Karl Fickenscher; MCA-T Deputy Chief Executive Officer (Mainland), Mr.Paschal Assey and MCA-T Deputy Chief Executive Officer(Zanzibar), Mr. Ahmed A. Rashid

The exercise to be carried out is one of the critical functions of the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) activities designed for better efficiency in managing the outputs of the compact implementation.

This forms the basis for comparing intervention changes before and after intervention and hence able to determine the attributable differences to accounted as the project impact. It is through such data that one can measure development or stagnation.

It will also enable the establishment of long term intervention needs through the collection of current situational information before an intervention (baseline data) and after intervention (post line data).