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Unappreciative Inquiry - Evaluation Report Checklist
Is the draft evaluation report that landed on your desk from your evaluation team exemplary, or not quite? Are you afraid you might have a “surrealist evaluation” that reports the …
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Learning to Adapt: Exploring Knowledge, Information and Data for Adaptive Programmes and Policies
Adaptive management is increasingly seen as critical capability for development programmes and policies that are more effective, efficient, relevant and sustainable. There…
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Lessons Learned Managing External Performance Evaluations
This document provides lessons learned on managing an external USAID performance evaluation as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR).
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Mapping a Crisis: AidData Students Respond to Nepal Earthquake
This case focuses on how AidData and its Research and Evaluation Unit coordinated students, faculty, and staff from the College of William and Mary to create an online dashboard to…
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Empowering Chiefs and Traditional Leaders Revolutionizes Sanitation Program
Akros has been working in Zambia in Community-Led Total Sanitation towards improving uptake of open defecation free (ODF) status at the village level. Our innovative approach…
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Integrated Planning and Budgeting Strengthens District Operational Plans in Uganda
The Strengthening Decentralization for Sustainability (SDS) Program, a USAID-funded project in Uganda, carried out a Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) study to assess the…
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Q&A from "CLA Global Status" Webinar with Stacey Young
This resource document is available to USAID staff only. Click on the link to view the document on ProgramNet.
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Outcome Mapping
Outcome mapping (OM) is a methodology for planning, monitoring and evaluating development initiatives in order to bring about sustainable social change. As the name suggests, its…
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Outcome Mapping: Better Evaluation's Resource Page
Outcome mapping (OM) is a methodology for planning, monitoring and evaluating development initiatives in order to bring about sustainable social change. As the name suggests, its…
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Most Significant Change: Better Evaluation’s Resource Page
The Most Significant Change (MSC) approach involves generating and analysing personal accounts of change and deciding which of these accounts is the most significant – and why.