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Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
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Influencing Systemic Changes in Agricultural Market Systems in Southwest Bangladesh
The Feed the Future Bangladesh Rice and Diversified Crops Activity (“the Activity”), funded by USAID and implemented by ACDI/VOCA, was a six-year effort that used several approaches…
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Guide for Remote Evaluation Technical Management
The pandemic has led to a global shift in expectations around where evaluation is performed. In addition to remote data collection, the “behind the scenes” activities of evaluation…
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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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Working Minds and Hands: Learning through Teaching about Technology Evaluation
The Comprehensive Initiative on Technology Evaluation (CITE) is an interdisciplinary partnership between USAID and MIT. The goal is to create a methodological framework that allows…
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Asia Regional Evaluation Evidence Exchange
USAID's Regional Development Mission for Asia (USAID/RDMA) and the United Nations Evaluation Development Group for Asia and the Pacific (UNEDAP) cohosted the Asia Regional…
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Developing an Independent Government Cost Estimate for a Performance Evaluation
The Performance Evaluation Independent Government Cost Estimate (IGCE) is USAID’s estimate of the costs that an evaluation contractor may incur in performing the evaluation. As with…
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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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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 address…
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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…