The Program Cycle is USAID’s operational model for planning, implementing, assessing, and adapting development programming in a given region or country. The Program Cycle is how policy gets translated into action and how USAID supports countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance.
USAID Learning Lab hosts three toolkits to provide USAID staff and implementing partners with a curated set of resources to plan, implement and integrate monitoring, evaluating and CLA practices into their programs.
Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) is a framework and a set of practices for strengthening organizational learning and the conditions that enable it throughout the Program Cycle to improve our development effectiveness, and support countries on their Journey to Self-Reliance.
Children beneficiaries of the program selected evaluation questions, collected and analyzed data in order to deliver an assessment of the program's results, effectiveness, efficiency, sustainability, relevance and equity. This second experience took place in Zimbabwe with a... read more
The Strengthening Decentralization for Sustainability (SDS) Program is a 6-year USAID-funded project in Uganda. The program is USAID’s vehicle for empowering local governments in Uganda to drive the decentralization process, a necessary condition for sustained improvement... read more
Planning and execution for an impact evaluation has to be integrated with activity implementation. This document presents a sample timeline that outlines this relationship, from design to procurement to implementation.
AidData and affiliated researchers of the AidData Research Consortium have employed cutting-edge geospatial impact evaluation (GIE) methodologies to create new cost and time efficient ways to measure programmatic impact.On July 15, USAID hosted a webinar "Going Geospatial... read more
The DRG Center and the Policy Planning and Learning Bureau's Office of Learning Evaluation and Research (PPL/LER) organized a week-long Impact Evaluation Learning Clinic in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania from March 23-27. The purpose was to generate rigorous evidence to concretely... read more
Data visualization helps us to communicate information clearly and efficiently to users, helping them to analyze data and evidence. Effective data visualization makes complex data more accessible, understandable and usable for decision-making. Here are the resources from... read more
This report brings together the findings and conclusions of a study on Impact Evaluation (IE) commissioned by DFID with the following chapters:
Introducing the study
Defining impact evaluation
Choosing designs and methods
Evaluation questions and evaluation designs... read more
Library Resource | Jan 2, 2012 | Technical Resources
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) are hosting Making Impact Evaluation Matter, a major international impact evaluation conference, from 1-5 September 2014 in Manila. The call for proposals to present papers and... read more
The Feinstein International Center has been developing and adapting participatory approaches to measure the impact of livelihoods based interventions since the early nineties. Originally released in 2009, this updated version of our PIA guide takes account of the continuing... read more
Library Resource | Mar 11, 2014 | Technical Resources