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How-To Note: Project Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan
06-28-2017 | By USAID PPL
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How-To Note: Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan
11-28-2016 | By USAID LEARN
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Improving Evaluation Use in Senegal through Recommendations Workshops
08-21-2018 | By Lisa Slifer-Mbacke
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Technical Note: Impact Evaluations
Dec 20,2019
By: USAID Bureau for Policy Planning and Learning
This Note defines impact evaluations, explains when they should be commissioned according to USAID policy and describes different designs for quasi-experimental and experimental impact evaluations. USAID is updating the 2013 Technical Note on Impact Evaluations. Stay tuned for the updated content in 2020.
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Performance Management Plan (PMP) Task Schedule Guidance and Template
Oct 08,2019
By: saallan
The Performance Management Plan (PMP) Task Schedule provides a comprehensive and interactive schedule of all of the monitoring, evaluation, and Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) tasks that will occur over the expected life of the Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS). The Task Schedule helps the Mission ...
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Additional Help: Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan Template
Jun 13,2019
By: SLazich
Each activity is required to have an Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Plan to support management of the activity and to inform USAID and the implementing partner about whether and how an activity is making progress toward stated results. The How-To Note: Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan provides an ove...
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Three Ways Data Science is Changing Monitoring and Evaluation
May 20,2019
By: John Mataya
Three Ways Data Science is Changing Monitoring and EvaluationAs a Data Scientist working in the context of monitoring and evaluation in the international development industry, I get exposed to interesting data science problems every day. It’s fascinating to see firsthand how an industry is borrowing innovations from Silicon Valley and a...
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Discussion Note: Making Evidence Accessible through Evaluation Synthesis
May 07,2019
By: tonyagiannoni
Evaluation syntheses are analytic reviews of evaluations that aggregate findings from evaluation reports and/or examine the quality of the evaluations reviewed. This Discussion Note, Making Evidence Accessible through Evaluation Synthesis, focuses on two common types of evaluation syntheses that USAID commissions: meta-evaluations an...
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Webinar: How to Monitor Performance Based on a Theory of Change
Apr 30,2019
By: Jerome Gallagher
This webinar is an introduction to performance monitoring at the activity level. It explains some key concepts in performance monitoring and demonstrates how one develops a performance motioning plan based on a project or activity theory of change and its associated logic model. COR/AORs and MEL specialists and anyone else who is wonderin...
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Learning from Evaluation Syntheses
Apr 04,2019
By: tonyagiannoni
This Technical Report focuses on evaluation syntheses as aid for learning and improving the utilization of evidence from evaluations. Decision-makers use such evidence to inform foreign assistance policies, strategies, projects, and activities, and for monitoring and improving evaluation quality. Evaluation syntheses are analytic studies ...
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Developmental Evaluation: A Practical Approach to CLA Implementation
Dec 06,2018
By: Shannon Griswold
How can Developmental Evaluations support Collaborating, Learning and Adapting (CLA) in our work? This short briefer illustrates the ways and means Developmental Evaluations can support CLA.
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Adapting Theories of Change: Pause and Reflect to PROTECT Wildlife in Tanzania
Nov 12,2018
By: Thadeus Binamungu
The USAID Promoting Tanzania's Environment, Conservation, and Tourism Activity (USAID PROTECT) addresses dynamics that threaten biodiversity conservation and inhibit private sector-led growth in the natural resources sector. After two years of implementation, it became clear that the Activity's original Theory of Change and the reality of...
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