3.65 The responses to SEUPB provided little insight into the actual or perceived effectiveness of LSPs. However, the LSP Working Group recently commissioned Deloitte MCS Ltd to undertake an independent evaluation of their effectiveness. The first stage of that exercise, a mid-term evaluation, has now been completed and a report was produced in September 200428. That report suggests that the absence of a clear cause and effect model for the peace and reconciliation programme makes it difficult to prove that LSP projects are having tangible peace and reconciliation impacts on the ground. This would suggest that the appropriate processes are not in place to allow for a comprehensive evaluation of LSPs in this regard.
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28 Deloitte MCS Limited, made available a Mid-Term Evaluation of Local Strategy Partnerships: Stage II Summary, in January 2005.