Much of development aid devoted to poorer countries is organized into projects with specific goals. Evaluating the effectiveness of aid projects in the developing world presents a challenge. Credible evaluation plans can be difficult to institute for ethical, logistical, financial and other reasons. This study is designed to collect and analyze subnational data on two general kinds of factors: 1) the effectiveness of aid projects measured at the subnational level; 2) contextual variables also measured at the subnational level.