Sarah Rose is a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development (GIF). Her work, as part of the Center’s US Development Policy Initiative, focuses on US government aid effectiveness.
Previously, Rose worked for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Mozambique as a specialist in the strategic information and monitoring and evaluation. She also worked at MCC, focusing on the agency’s country selection and eligibility processes.
Dr. Pramod Jaiswal, Strategic Affairs Editor at Khabarhub discussed with Sarah Rose, Policy Fellow at the Center for Global Development on Millennium Challenge Corporation and Nepal.
MCC’s partnership with Nepal extends back 10 years. MCC first selected Nepal to participate in a smaller program, called a “threshold program”, back in 2011.
So the threshold program just for a bit of background is a smaller amount of grant financing than the Compact which is of course what’s been signed in Nepal now. It’s usually just two to three years or so and it’s an initial step in many cases on the way to being eligible for a compact.
