8.a: Partner Selection

Select country partners based on proven policy performance, country-led planning and implementation, and managing our portfolio to ensure sustainability, transparency and results.

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MCC is committed to selecting country partners based on proven policy performance, country-led planning and implementation, and managing our portfolio to ensure sustainability, transparency and results. This rigorous, integrated and open approach to development sets the standard for accountable and truly innovative development assistance. With this model as a foundation, further "innovation" for MCC means something very simple: a constant push to learn from our experiences and to try new approaches that can enhance the impact and sustainability of our investments.

Stakeholder(s):

• Mongolia: For example, in Mongolia, MCC designed an original project promoting clean energy to improve the quality of life.


• Ulaanbaatar: Ulaanbaatar, the coldest capital city in the world, also experiences some of the worst winter air pollution in the world. This pollution is due in large part to the coal-fired heating and cooking stoves in traditional "gers" (circular felt dwellings), which emit a toxic brew that causes smog from thousands of chimneys dotting the city's skyline. Mongolia's energy and environment project, one component of the MCC compact with Mongolia, addresses urban air pollution in part through the Millennium Challenge Energy Efficiency Innovation Facility (MCEEIF). The MCEEIF provides consumer subsidies toward the purchase of energy-efficient and lower emissions technologies such as stoves, insulation, boilers and heaters that have been certified through a product review process. The process includes efficiency and emissions testing, cost-benefit analysis and market analysis. In contrast to previous donation programs, which offered such equipment for free, the MCC-funded project employs market-based solutions and significant financial incentives to accelerate the adoption of proven technologies and to contribute to a sustainable market for energy efficient and lower-emissions technologies.

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