This 10-page document summarizes key "musts" (requirements) and "shoulds" (best practices) in the revision of ADS 201 that was codified on October 28, 2020.
U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Administrator John Barsa has streamlined Chapter 201 of our ADS, Program Cycle Operational Policy, to shift our emphasis from bureaucracy to the real work of supporting development progress. The reformed policy responds to calls from the field to streamline...
The Global Learning for Adaptive Management (GLAM) is an initiative envisioned as a globally networked learning alliance that aims to actively identify, operationalise and promote rigorous evidence-based approaches to adaptive management. GLAM has a legacy of research on effective monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) for Adaptive management (MEL4AM) and a library focused on adaptive and MEL4AM work.
The PIVOT: Practical, InnoVative, On-the-Job Training theory of change posits that staff must exhibit skills in three areas of capacity — PSE, CLA, and leadership for change management — to successfully foster a PSE orientation within their Missions to address development challenges.The PIVOT program focuses on building...
This information packet offers an overview of PIVOT: Practical, InnoVative, On-the-Job Training. PIVOT is the Africa Bureau’s organizational change management program that advances private-sector engagement (PSE) through technical and leadership skills-building for greater development impact.
This slide presentation offers a snapshot of PIVOT: Practical, InnoVative, On-the-Job Training, highlighting its purpose, unique model, and programming. PIVOT is the Africa Bureau’s organizational change management program that advances private-sector engagement (PSE) through technical and leadership...
The PIVOT -SRLA Learning Review Final Report captured promising practices, lessons learned, and evidence of change from the yearlong PIVOT: Practical, InnoVative, On-the-Job Training Cohort Program on how to advance PSE as a pathway toward self-reliance. The inaugural PIVOT: Practical, InnoVative, On-the-Job...
This resource is intended for use by USAID staff or implementing partners as they develop or review learning questions during monitoring, evaluation or learning (MEL) planning processes. It complements the Learning Questions checklist and is geared toward strategy-level learning. The tip sheet includes...
The purpose of this document is to provide a foundational understanding of probability sampling to USAID staff to equip them as well-informed commissioners and consumers of surveys, evaluations, and other products (hereafter referred to as studies) that require probability sampling. We hope that it will serve as a resource for commissioners to make informed decisions about surveys and to use monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL) resources effectively. The main audience for this document includes monitoring, evaluation, and learning specialists, Contracting Officer’s Representative (CORs), and Agreement Officer’s Representative (AORs).
USAID Guatemala created these videos to introduce Mission staff and partners to the CLA framework, main concepts and definitions. The series of videos were part of a workshop on CLA conducted in 2017.