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Access to Markets Project - Independent Performance Evaluation 2016

Benin, 2016
NORC at the University of Chicago
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Download the questionnaires, technical documents and reports that describe the survey process and the key results for this study.
Reports
Evaluation Design and Implementation of Benin Port Project
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Date 2016-04-04
Country Benin
Table of contents Executive Summary ................................................................................................................... viii
1. Introduction ...........................................................................................................................1
1.1 Country context ..............................................................................................................1
1.2 Report Objectives...........................................................................................................2
2. Overview of the Compact and Intervention ........................................................................2
2.1 Project Overview and Implementation Plan ..................................................................2
2.1.1 Program Participants .........................................................................................2
2.1.2 Geographic Coverage .........................................................................................3
2.2 Program Logic ...............................................................................................................3
3. Literature Review ..................................................................................................................8
3.1 Country context ..............................................................................................................8
3.1.1 Summary of the Existing Evidence ......................................................................8
3.1.1.1 Benin Port Sector ...............................................................................................8
3.1.1.2 MCC Compact .................................................................................................10
3.1.2 Gaps in the Literature .......................................................................................14
3.2 Competitiveness ...........................................................................................................14
3.2.1 Summary of the existing evidence .....................................................................14
3.2.2 Gaps in the Literature .......................................................................................18
3.3 Trade Volume ..............................................................................................................19
3.3.1 Summary of the existing evidence .....................................................................19
3.3.2 Gaps in the Literature .......................................................................................20
3.4 Operational Efficiency .................................................................................................21
3.4.1 Measures of Operational Efficiency in the literature .......................................21
3.4.2 Summary of the existing evidence at Cotonou ..................................................21
3.4.3 Gaps in the Literature .......................................................................................26
3.5 Costs and Tariffs ..........................................................................................................26
3.5.1 Summary of the existing evidence .....................................................................26
3.5.1.1 Costs at the Port...............................................................................................26
3.5.1.2 Container Handling Charges ...........................................................................27
3.5.1.3 Costs of Doing Business...................................................................................29
3.5.2 Gaps in the Literature .......................................................................................29
3.6 Integration of internal markets .....................................................................................29
3.6.1 Summary of the existing evidence .....................................................................29
3.6.2 Gaps in the Literature .......................................................................................30
3.7 Employment .................................................................................................................30
3.7.1 Summary of the existing evidence .....................................................................30
3.7.2 Gaps in the Literature .......................................................................................32
3.8 Corruption ....................................................................................................................32
3.8.1 Summary of the existing evidence .....................................................................32
3.8.2 Gaps in the Literature .......................................................................................34
3.9 Institutional Issues .......................................................................................................34
3.9.1 Summary of the existing evidence .....................................................................35
3.9.2 Gaps in the Literature .......................................................................................38
4. Evaluation Design ................................................................................................................39
4.1 Policy Relevance of the Evaluation .............................................................................39
4.1.1 Infrastructure Improvements .............................................................................39
4.1.2 Institutional and Organizational Improvements ...............................................39
4.1.3 Future MCC Procurements ...............................................................................40
4.2 Evaluation Overview ...................................................................................................41
4.2.1 Summary of Evaluation Questions and Outcomes ............................................41
4.2.2 Summary of Evaluation Approach ....................................................................43
4.2.2.1 Approach to Evaluating Operational Performance and Efficiency .................43
4.2.2.2 Approach to Evaluating Institutional Control Issues ......................................44
4.3 Port Operational Analysis ............................................................................................45
4.3.1 Evaluation Questions and Outcomes ................................................................45
4.3.2 Methodology ......................................................................................................45
4.3.2.1 Operational Efficiency .....................................................................................46
4.3.2.2 Level of Service ................................................................................................47
4.4 Shipping and Market Analysis .....................................................................................49
4.4.1 Evaluation Questions and Outcomes ................................................................49
4.4.2 Methodology ......................................................................................................49
4.5 Trade Analysis .............................................................................................................50
4.5.1 Evaluation Questions and Outcomes ................................................................50
4.5.2 Methodology ......................................................................................................50
4.6 Institutional Assessment ..............................................................................................52
4.6.1 Evaluation Questions and Outcomes ................................................................52
4.6.2 Methodology for Qualitative Analysis ..............................................................53
4.6.3 Employment .......................................................................................................53
4.6.4 Costs of corruption ............................................................................................54
4.6.5 Unanticipated Impacts ......................................................................................55
4.6.5.1 Assessing the Merits/ Demerits of the Concessioning of the MCC Funded Assets................................................................................................................55
4.6.5.2 Environmental Impacts ....................................................................................57
4.7 Cost/Tariff Analysis .....................................................................................................59
4.7.1 Evaluation Questions and Outcomes ................................................................59
4.7.2 Methodology ......................................................................................................59
4.8 Monitoring and Process Questions ..............................................................................60
4.9 Timeframe of exposure ................................................................................................60
4.10 Limitations and Challenges..........................................................................................62
5. Data Sources and Outcome Definitions .............................................................................65
5.1 Data Collection Plans ...................................................................................................65
5.1.1 Key Informant Interviews ..................................................................................65
5.1.2 Visual Port Inspections .....................................................................................66
5.1.3 Focus groups .....................................................................................................67
5.2 Proposal to Measure Implementation Fidelity .............................................................67
5.3 Data Needs ...................................................................................................................68
5.3.1 Data sources for quantitative ............................................................................68
5.3.2 Data sources for qualitative ..............................................................................69
6. Administrative .....................................................................................................................71
6.1 Summary of IRB Requirements and Clearances .........................................................71
6.2 Preparing Data Files for Access, Privacy, and Documentation ...................................71
6.3 Dissemination Plan ......................................................................................................71
6.4 Evaluation Team Roles and Responsibilities ...............................................................71
6.4.1 NORC ................................................................................................................71
6.4.2 Nathan Associates, Inc. .....................................................................................73
6.4.3 Agland Investment Services, Inc. ......................................................................76
6.4.4 LOCAL PERSONNEL .......................................................................................78
6.5 Evaluation Timeline .....................................................................................................78
6.6 Reporting Schedule ......................................................................................................78
7. References ............................................................................................................................81
8. Annexes .................................................................................................................................87
8.1 Stakeholder Comments and Evaluator Responses .......................................................87
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Final Evaluation Report Package
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Country Benin
Description This folder contains: (i) Performance Evaluation Final Report, (ii) MCC Management Response to “Evaluation Design and Implementation of the Benin Access to Markets (Benin Port) Project” (iii) Summary Findings.
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Technical documents
Memo on Data Publishing
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Date 2016-03-26
Country Benin
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Summary of Findings: Measuring Results of the Benin Access to Markets
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