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enable them more effectively perform activities related to coordination, facilitation and participation
in field level monitoring. Last but not least, there will be needs for more funding to undertake an end-
line impact evaluation survey. Additional financial forecast needs will be finally firmed up after
receiving information from a detailed self-evaluation exercise by SAIPs that the MA is currently
facilitating.
22. Discussions with stakeholders reveal that they consider continuity of implementation during the
economic life of ESAP2 as important and recommend that the 49 implementers are sustained in the
program through September/October 2015. The motivation for this can be summarized in four points
namely: i) putting in place prerequisites for SA tools implementation was underestimated and it
tended to take SAIPs more than 6 months on average making them use more time for actual
implementation on the ground than was anticipated, ii) SA activities are just gaining momentum and
a number of implementers are going back and forth to ensure that the citizens’ representatives
(especially the SACs), the service providers and other stakeholders fully understand the principles of
SA to avoid inappropriate application of tools and potential reversal of achievements made so far, iii)
the final year of implementation will provide an opportunity to strengthen linkages between the
policy dialogue and implementation on the ground hence important that significant engagement with
communities is sustained and iv) the first 3 factors will allow implementers to consolidate lessons,
identify regional variations and promote learning among the regions. Sustaining implementation by
all these implementers will thus ensure that there is a holistic approach to documentation of results
and lessons drawn from a critical mass of implementers over a fairly sufficient period of time to
inform decisions on options and choices for taking forward SA in Ethiopia.
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