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STOP, in the Name of Learning: Reflecting and Adapting Ethiopia’s Approach to Attaining Feed the Future and Economic Growth Objectives
At USAID/Ethiopia, we found that although we were on track to meet some of our output-level indicators, it was unlikely that the mission would meet the high-level outcome indicators…
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Assumptions, Conjectures, and Other Miracles: The Application of Evaluative Thinking to Theory of Change Models in Community Development
Unexamined and unjustified assumptions are the Achilles heel of development programs. In this paper, we describe an evaluation capacity building (ECB) approach designed to help…
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MERLIN: US Global Development Lab Evaluation and Impact Assessment
The Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning Innovations activity, known as MERLIN, is an effort to source, co-create, and co-design innovations in monitoring, evaluation,…
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Reimagining the Learning Agenda to Increase Reading Achievement in Uganda
The USAID/Uganda School Health and Reading Program (SHRP), the Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity (LARA) along with the Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES), made…
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Integrating Learning into the Program Cycle: CLA at a Cross-Sectoral Program in Vietnam
Development is measured in statistics; economic growth rates, life expectancy, literacy rates, population growth – to mention just a few – provide an objective assessment of…
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New Guide Book on Ex-Post Evaluation Available!
Long-term evaluations (LTE) typically occur after program implementation is complete, and can provide crucial information on whether outcomes are sustained over time, allowing USAID…
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Six Models for Understanding Impact
We often default to the assumption that our programs will lead to greater positive change over time. The rate of change may be incremental, exponential, or something else, but it’s…
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A Participatory Gender Approach for Lebanon Using the CLA Approach
To be able to grasp women’s status and gender issues in the country, USAID/Lebanon needed to have gender-specific data in hand. Given the lack of sex-disaggregated data at the…
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Adaptive Learning in Senegal: Improving the Use of ICT Tools in Education
Lecture Pour Tous (LPT) is a technical assistance program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Senegal and implemented by Chemonics International…
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Building in CLA to Your Activity Design: A Remedy for Working in Closing Spaces
USAID/Bangladesh signed a cooperative agreement, called Strengthening Political Landscape (SPL), with Democracy international (DI) with $10 Million in funding from the Department…