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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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New Guide Book on Ex-Post Evaluation Available!
Long-term evaluations (LTE) typically occur after program implementation is complete, and can provide crucial information on whether outcomes are sustained over time, allowing USAID…
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Reimagining the Learning Agenda to Increase Reading Achievement in Uganda
The USAID/Uganda School Health and Reading Program (SHRP), the Literacy Achievement and Retention Activity (LARA) along with the Uganda Ministry of Education and Sports (MoES), made…
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2018 CLA Case Competition Analysis
This analysis is part of a broader area of work known as the Evidence Base for Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting EB4CLA, spearheaded by USAID’s Bureau for Policy, Planning and…
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Six Models for Understanding Impact
We often default to the assumption that our programs will lead to greater positive change over time. The rate of change may be incremental, exponential, or something else, but it’s…
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A Participatory Gender Approach for Lebanon Using the CLA Approach
To be able to grasp women’s status and gender issues in the country, USAID/Lebanon needed to have gender-specific data in hand. Given the lack of sex-disaggregated data at the…
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Adaptive Learning in Senegal: Improving the Use of ICT Tools in Education
Lecture Pour Tous (LPT) is a technical assistance program funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)/Senegal and implemented by Chemonics International…
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Building in CLA to Your Activity Design: A Remedy for Working in Closing Spaces
USAID/Bangladesh signed a cooperative agreement, called Strengthening Political Landscape (SPL), with Democracy international (DI) with $10 Million in funding from the Department…
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Building Self-Reliance in West Africa: Learning from USAID's Ebola Recovery
CONTEXT. To help West Africa recover from the Ebola crisis that occurred between December 2013 and January 2016, USAID obligated $475 million of both Economic Support Fund (ESF) and…
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External Collaboration under the Partnership for Recovery and Resilience Platform in South Sudan
USAID operates in a politically, economically and socially complex environment in South Sudan. The outbreak of civil war in 2013 and widespread violence and armed conflict in 2016…