Resources
Ideas and tools to apply learning practices
22 Results
Resource
Procurement Executive Bulletin on Adaptable Mechanism
This bulletin from the Office of Acquisitions and Assistance provides guidance on how to allow for learning, flexibility, and adaptability in contracts.
Resource
USAID/Uganda Community Connector SOW
The purpose of this contract is to reduce poverty by enabling vulnerable households in Uganda to improve nutrition and achieve sustainable food and livelihood security. This will be…
Resource
Grantcraft Guide to Community Philanthropy for Donors
This paper is for donors looking for ways to ensure that our interventions produce lasting results that are owned and directed by the people they are meant to benefit. It offers…
Resource
How-To Note: Strategy-Level Portfolio Review
This How-To Note supplements ADS 201.3.2.18. It presents guidelines and recommended practices in planning and implementing a mission-wide strategy-level portfolio review. These…
Resource
Operationalizing Adaptive Management: What it takes. Why it matters.
Development actors increasingly agree that managing programs adaptively – especially complex interventions – can improve their effectiveness. A growing body of evidence supports…
Resource
Realigning Strategy to Respond to Market Realities: Agricultural Inputs Uganda
In June 2015, the USAID/Uganda Feed the Future Agricultural Inputs Activity was reaching its midway point, and the team commissioned a Strategic Assessment to determine if the…
Resource
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 intentions…
Resource
Refocusing an Economic Growth Strategy through CLA
The USAID Mission in Lebanon needed to rethink and redesign its strategic approach to its Economic Growth (EG) program, particularly because Lebanon is facing a “jobs crisis” that…
Resource
ENABLE Program Discussion Paper
Is a genuinely sustainable, locally-led, politically-smart approach to economic governance and Business Environment Reform possible? Lessons from 10 years implementing ENABLE in…
Resource
Vulnerability to Resilience: A Training Module
We tend to think about poor people in a one-dimensional way (poor people are poor because they don’t have money), which results in program interventions that address only the…