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Monitoring and Evaluation in Complex, High-threat Environments
Monitoring and evaluation (M&E) is critical to all USAID programs for accountability reporting, measuring impact, and informing ongoing strategic management decisions. The…
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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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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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Improving the Social Value of Knowledge for Women Entrepreneurs
Describe The Approaches Utilized To Measure / Assess This KM Initiative: To evaluate the initiative we used the self assessment tool for NGO’s through a SWOT exercise which consists…
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Participatory Video for Monitoring and Evaluation in Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change
Describe The Approaches Utilized To Measure / Assess This KM Initiative: The CBAA Participatory Video for M&E process had the following aims: - Enhance accountability - Amplify…
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M&E for NPEs
COMING SOONThis document provides supplemental guidance to ADS 201.3.5 Monitoring, Evaluation, & Learning and discusses considerations and methods to monitor and evaluate USAID…
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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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Plausible Contribution Memo
In its efforts to advance understandings of how to measure the effects and effectiveness of collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA) on development results, the CLAIM Learning…
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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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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.