Subsidizing pastors’ salaries, for the the stabilization and growth of the church in Burundi.

Supporting pastors with salaries will give the Church the time to build up its membership through pastoral care to the existing congregations, create new church communities as well as train and develop new leaders and pastors. In turn, there is hope that church members will be taught on how important it is to pay their pastor enough so that they can do their job well to avoid being lured away to another church/job.

The primary goal of this project is to provide a subsidy to complement salaries of appointed clergy men and women serving congregations in various local churches in the Burundi annual conference. The long term impact is that supporting pastors with salaries will enable churches to have pastoral leadership and to give the Church the time to build up its membership through pastoral care to the existing congregations, create new church communities as well as train and develop new leaders and pastors. In turn, there is hope that church members will be taught on how important it is to pay their pastor enough so that they can do their job well to avoid being lured away to another church/job. In short, there will be a transformation of the Burundi society,

To evaluate the project success, I will look at the following points: 1.Relevance/appropriateness – the extent to which the objectives were consistent with beneficiaries’ needs and priorities. To what extent are the objectives of the project still valid? What are relevant local context factors, which may affect the project’s outcomes? To what extent were these context factors considered in the planning and implementation of the project? To what extent did the relevant context factors change since the beginning of the project? 2. Efficiency - how economically resources/inputs were converted into results. Did project activities overlap and duplicate other similar interventions (funded nationally and/or by other donors? 3. Effectiveness: the extent to which the targeted project objectives were achieved (or are expected to be achieved) and any lessons related to this for future interventions. 4. Coverage/scope: extent to which the project’s work includes (or excludes) population groups from an intervention and the differential impact on these groups. 5. Impact: assessing the positive and negative changes on stakeholders produced by the project interventions, directly or indirectly, intended or unintended. 6. Sustainability & connectedness- The extent to which the benefits of the project’s work are likely to continue once the project is completed - the long-term effects produced by the project (directly, indirectly, intended and unintended).