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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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Mission-Based Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Platforms Assessment Report
In 2016, the Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) commissioned an internal stocktaking of USAID's mission-based MEL (Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning) Platforms. A MEL…
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Tips on Learning from Context Formal and Informal Approaches to Understanding the Local Political Economy
Successfully adapting your programmatic efforts and policy engagement to the context depends on maintaining your understanding of that context. Given this, continuous …
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The Scorecard Toolkit
This toolkit has been designed to be used by many kinds of users from institutions operating in different sectors. The toolkit is generic in nature and can be applied in any…
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Outcome Harvesting: A Complexity-Aware Monitoring Approach
Outcome Harvesting is one of five complexity-aware monitoring approaches promoted by USAID’s Complexity-Aware M&E Team. Outcome Harvesting works backwards to identify,…
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Corruption Assessment Tools
This resource is a great starting point for researching and developing tools to measure corruption. Transparency International has collected a wide variety of methodologies…
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Most Significant Change: A Complexity-Aware Monitoring Approach
USAID’s Complexity-Aware M&E Team championed five approaches to complexity-aware monitoring, which the Team supported through trials. One of these approaches is Most Significant…
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USAID Hosts Its First "Crowdsourcing" Event To Clean, Map, and Share Agency Data
This crowd sourcing effort involved volunteers who virtually collaborated with USAID staff to review Agency data on specific USAID economic growth activities, and help code that…
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STATcompiler: Data and Visualizations from Demographic and Health Surveys
The MEASURE DHS STATcompiler allows users to make custom tables based on hundreds of demographic and health indicators across more than 70 countries. Customize tables to view…
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Outcome Mapping: Building Learning and Reflection into Development Programs
The Evaluation Unit and a number of IDRC programs have been working with Dr. Barry Kibel of the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation to adapt his Outcome Engineering…
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Assessing the National Health Information System Tool: An Assessment Tool
This HMN assessment tool is intended to achieve more than simply assess the strengths and weaknesses of the elements and operations of a national HIS. It should move stakeholders…