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Performance Indicator Baselines
This document provides supplemental guidance to ADS 201.3.5.7.E Indicator Baseline, and offers guidance for planning and collecting performance indicator baseline data for…
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Performance Indicator Targets
This document provides supplemental guidance to ADS 201.3.5.6 Indicator Targets, and offers guidelines and good practices for USAID and its partners to set targets for performance…
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Monitoring Data Disaggregation by Geographic Location
The Additional Help: Data Disaggregation by Geographic Location has been updated to reflect the recently updated ADS 201. The Country Example and Checklist are currently under…
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Data Security Guidance: Protecting Beneficiaries
This content is currently under revision to align with the recently updated ADS 201.
For guidance and support associated with revisions to ADS 201, please see the Program…
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A Management Compact for Advancing Adaptive Management
The Sprint Relay is a methodology that makes adaptive implementation practical. As part of a Sprint Relay, several agencies collaborate over a 100-day period (a Sprint) to…
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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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Two Pager: What Difference Does Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting Make to Development? Key Findings from a Recent Literature Review
USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning and its LEARN support contract are working to integrate systematic, intentional, and resourced Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting…
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OMB Learning Agenda
What is a Learning Agenda?According to the Office of Management and Budget, a learning agenda is a set of broad questions directly related to the work that an agency conducts…
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Before Action Review
A Before Action Review (BAR) is a method for a team starting a project, activity, or event to assess what knowledge they already have. A BAR helps a team state their…
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Establishing a Learning Agenda and Learning Agenda Template
A learning agenda includes a (1) set of questions addressing the critical knowledge gaps impeding informed design and implementation decisions and (2) plans for learning activities…