Deficiencies in understanding the effectiveness of the program impact may hinder identifying credible evaluation model. In addition, due to “the politics of the budgetary processes, 6” a preliminary feasibility study regarding whether to inject budgetary investments may stand against program outputs, particularly in agricultural and rural projects. In contrast, based on a retrospective design, ex-post evaluation can examine the actual program impact. By doing so, planners and policy-makers are able to draw more concrete conclusions that can be boiled down to developing better programs in the future. This intuition implies that an ex-post evaluation can contribute to the establishment and development of more robust programs in diverse agricultural and rural policy contexts.