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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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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…
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Outcome Mapping Approaches
Outcome mapping is a methodology for planning, monitoring and evaluating development initiatives in order to bring about sustainable social change. As the name suggests, its niche…
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How-To Note: Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning Plan
Each activity is required to have an Activity Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Plan to support management of the activity and to inform USAID and the implementing partner…
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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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Technical Note on Focus Group Interviews
Focus group interviews (also often called focus group discussions) are a key tool for collecting data to support many USAID activities. This data collection technique is widely used…
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Ten Years of Outcome Mapping: Adaptations & Support
An analysis of how and where Outcome Mapping has been applied, how users have experienced OM and the support options available and required for its use.
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CARE Brief No 4. Measuring Program Impact
This report brief describes measuring program support and program processes, ranging from sectoral impact to changes to the millenium development goals by programs.
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Partnership Defined Quality - Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit
Partnership Defined Quality (PDQ) Monitoring and Evaluation Toolkit provides a set of tools including supervisory checklists, mapping tools and an exit interview to support the…
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MEL Practitioner Guide: Alternatives to Survey Measurement for Activity and Context Monitoring - Use Cases from Latin America and the Caribbean Citizen Security Programming
This guide provides practical and useful guidance for Mission Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) staff; Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) technical teams;…