Reviewing the challenges for the pilot program

Implementation of the Pilot Program is firmly under way. Solid project implementation performance is essential. In the long run, however, the benefits of the Pilot Program will be measured by knowledge learned, not by dollars spent or the number of projects implemented. The knowledge will be gained only through a systematic learning strategy at the Program Level. Such a learning strategy will rest on five pillars: 1) strengthen the coordination among individual projects; 2) ensure that each project has in place a system for objectively monitoring and analyzing its results and for monitoring these results carefully at the Program level; 3) monitor the major physical, demographic, and economic trends in Amazon to better understand the overall context of our project-level insights; 4) use the insights from the above to structure the policy dialogue; and 5) ensure that the learning strategy has the highest level of credibility and objectivity.