A learning review of a health sector decentralization project in Uganda
USAID/Bangladesh's first ever Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) on designing one of the flagship activities titled- ‘Advancing Universal Health Coverage (AUHC)’ demonstrates a set of exemplary practices of collaboration, learning and adaptation. This BAA is unique, not in the overall process, but because it has generated...
Both in the design of the mechanism and in the ways it was implemented, Zimbabwe's Civil Society Strengthening Program (CSSP) benefited from systematic and intentional incorporation of features that facilitated adaptive management.
Spanning five and a half years (2012-2017), USAID/Kenya's Feed the Future Innovation Engine (KIE) sought to identify, foster and bring to scale innovative private sector solutions to persistent poverty and food insecurity.
USAID/Indonesia's Urban Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (IUWASH) program was designed to support the Government of Indonesia (GOI) in making significant progress toward achieving its safe water and sanitation Millennium Development Goal (MDG) targets.
At a global organization, bridging the gap between day-to-day of program implementation and more systematic reflection, documentation of lessons learned and dissemination of knowledge is challenging, particularly for organizations such as Global Communities, which operates in more than 20 countries across Africa, Asia,...
Afghan Children Read is a USAID-funded primary education project designed to improve equitable access to education in Afghanistan. The envisioned outcome of the project is to build the capacity of the Ministry of Education (MoE) to provide an evidence-based early grade reading (EGR) program (in Dari and Pashto) in both...
Post Activity Reviews (PARs) are one of the most efficient and effective tools used to keep any project/program relevant. There are so many changes, some planned and others unplanned, that take place from the time a project proposal is written to the time it gets funding and throughout the lifespan of the project. It is...
In 2014, USAID and Sida launched the Civil Society Innovation Initiative (CSiI), to support new and established approaches to promote, strengthen, and connect a vibrant, pluralistic, and rights-based civil society. To date, CSiI has convened donors, implementers, and over 250 civil society actors to co-create one global...
USAID requires all projects to address gender equality and social inclusion (GESI) as a crosscutting theme and regularly undergo rigorous GESI analysis and compliance evaluation. As part of project design, USAID calls for mandatory use of GESI Action Plan and reporting on it as one of the key project deliverables. USAID...
