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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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Checklist for Use of Qualitative Methods and Approaches
This checklist parallels one for quantitative methods. Basic characteristics such as relevance, validity, reliability, credibility, and practicality apply equally to…
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Comparing Sampling Strategies
This matrix provides guidance on comparing probability, purposive, and mixed method sampling strategies.
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Complexity-Aware Monitoring at USAID (Brief)
This presentation is an introduction to complexity-aware monitoring and how principles and approaches that fall into this category can complement performance monitoring work in…
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New Directions in Local Capacity Development: Embracing a Systems Perspective
Root Change’s work for the USAID Learning Agenda on Local Organization Capacity Development (LA), corroborates the main finding from the LA fieldwork – foreign assistance has…
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Capable Partners Learning Agenda on Local Organization Capacity Development
The Learning Agenda focuses on local organizations, their capacity development and USAID’s role vis a vis both. The practical goal of the project is to help USAID more fully …
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Complexity-Aware Monitoring Discussion Note (Screencast)
This screencast covers information included in the Complexity-Aware Monitoring Discussion Note. The topic is intended for those seeking cutting-edge solutions to monitoring complex…
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Worksheet: Six Simple Questions to Identify Your Complexity-Aware Monitoring Need
This worksheet is a starting point for identifying unmet monitoring and/or evaluation needs. Developed by USAID staff and partners, the questions apply Complexity-Aware principles…
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Attending to Interrelationships, Perspectives, and Boundaries: A Complexity-Aware Monitoring Principle
Bob Williams and Heather Britt discuss how systemic monitoring can enhance your performance monitoring system. Complexity-aware monitoring helps us to understand inter-relationships…
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Synchronizing Monitoring with the Pace of Change in Complexity: A Complexity-Aware Monitoring Principle
Synchronizing monitoring with the pace of change ensures that information is available at the right time to inform adaptive management in dynamic settings. For complex aspects of…
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A Resource Guide for Enhancing Potential for Sustainable Impact
Recognizing that knowledge on how to define and measure sustainability of development programming is limited and often complex, Project Concern International (PCI) was awarded a…