Monitoring and Evaluation of Central American Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) Programs

For INL’s Central America Regional Security Initiative (CARSI) task order, DevTech conducted evidence-based evaluations of CARSI activities financed with International Narcotics and Control and Law Enforcement (INCLE) funds, administered by INL’s Office of Western Hemisphere Programs (INL/WHP), in Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama from Fiscal Year 2009 to FY2016. During this period, the U.S. Congress appropriated $733.1 million in INCLE funds to INL/CARSI to help to strengthen Central American law enforcement and justice sector institutions; assist in countering organized crime; and advance community policing, gang prevention, and socioeconomic programs for at-risk communities. DevTech also developed a systematic monitoring and reporting system for these civilian security activities, adapted from the system DevTech developed for the INL/CBSI evaluation to support INL’s monitoring, analysis, and reporting activities as well as management decisions.