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2022’s Most Popular Content
This December, we’re looking back at all the ways the Learning Lab community engaged with us in 2022. Many of you contributed content to our newly redesigned website to share your…
All content tagged with "Evaluation"
The systematic collection and analysis of information about the characteristics and outcomes of strategies, projects, and activities conducted as a basis for judgments to improve effectiveness and timed to inform decisions about current and future programming.
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Decision Points in Contribution Analysis
Contribution analysis (CA) helps managers understand their program’s specific impact on observed results by working with theories of change (TOCs) to enable adaptive management, yet…
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Five Ways to Use the NEW Digital Ecosystem Evidence Map
Digital technology is transforming the ways in which we interact with businesses, governments, and each other. It’s also changing how we do development. And—in that context—it’s…
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Reframing Developmental Evaluation Cost Concerns
Developmental evaluation (DE) can be perceived as expensive within the donor and evaluation communities.[1] In fact, a study of all DEs conducted by USAID between 2010 and 2020…
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From Planning to Reporting: Our Lessons and Guidance for Remote Evaluation Technical Management
Photo by Oscar Siagian for USAID Jalin.
Virtual data collection has become common in evaluations with the shift to remote work caused by…
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Guide for Remote Evaluation Technical Management
The pandemic has led to a global shift in expectations around where evaluation is performed. In addition to remote data collection, the “behind the scenes” activities of evaluation…
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Activity MEL Plans
Within 90 days of an activity being awarded, the Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Plan is drafted. Unlike a Performance Management Plan (PMP) or Project MEL Plan,…