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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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USAID Scientific Research Policy
The Scientific Research Policy is written for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) staff and implementing partners. The purpose of this document is to…
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USAID Evaluation Policy
This policy update is the work of USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning’s Office of Learning, Evaluation and Research (PPL/LER). This update had been…
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Assessing Organizational Capacity Through Participatory Monitoring and Evaluation
The Organizational Capacity Assessment Tool (OCAT) will allow program officers, working in close collaboration with each to identify current organizational strengths and weaknesses…
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Technical Note: Mixed-Methods Evaluations
This Technical Note provides guidance on using mixed-methods for evaluations. A mixed-method evaluation systematically integrates two or more evaluation methods, usually…
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The Ideal Prospective Impact Evaluation Timeline
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…
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Evaluation Design Matrix Templates
The evaluation design matrix is an essential tool for planning and organizing an evaluation. It is simply a table with one row for each evaluation question and columns that…
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Choosing Between Internal and External Evaluations
The purpose of this guidance document is to provide USAID staff in the Missions and at Headquarters with guidance on choosing whether to conduct an internal or external evaluation…
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Submitting a USAID Evaluation to the Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC)
This document provides detailed instructions for USAID staff on how to submit an evaluation to the DEC. Non-USAID staff members accessing the DEC’s public website are required to…